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Graham Barnhart | Volume 47, Issue 1 — Spring 2017 For as long as I was gone my Pittsburgh was a summer city of telephone poles tacked all over with beer bottle caps. In the evenings, deer wandered Forbes Avenue on their way to or from the river. No…
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Brian Van Reet | Volume 45, Issue 1 — Spring 2015 After incidents described by Brian Castner and Adrian Bonenberger We called them Psycho Tuesdays. That was the day we were issued mefloquine hydrochloride to ward off malaria. By Friday, the pills’ effects would diminish enough for life to…
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Katherine Schifani | Volume 45, Issue 1 — Spring 2015 The temperatures have been topping 120 for days now, and each time the heat rises to about 115 degrees, the generator turns off, cutting power to our entire compound. Our only recourse is to sit under the patio shaded…
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D.F. Brown | Volume 47, Issue 1 — Spring 2017 When I was king in Vietnam killing gooks for god they loved us for the body count. We choppered everywhere between history and a hard place searching for some peace with honor and no bread crumbs. D.F. Brown was born…
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Over the course of our Spring 2026 semester, our undergraduate interns had the opportunity to contribute to The Iowa Review‘s online publication, Switchgrass. Here, current University of Iowa student Ilianu Banu interviews previous contributor Maxine Scates (51/1, Spring 2021). Iliana Banu/The Iowa Review: I’d like to…
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Over the course of our Spring 2026 semester, our undergraduate interns had the opportunity to contribute to The Iowa Review‘s online publication, Switchgrass. First up, we have Lynne Inouye (’26), who interviewed Maeve Barry, winner of the 2025 Iowa Review Award for Fiction. Lynne Inouye/The Iowa…
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The Iowa Review is thrilled to announce the winners and runners-up of our seventh Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans, judged by Dewaine Farria. The work of all winners and runners-up will be published in the Spring 2025 edition of TIR. Included below are the winners, Farria’s comments on their winning work,…
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IN MEMORIAM The Iowa Review celebrates the life of one of our greatest and most influential poets, Alice Notley, who passed away yesterday in Paris. May she rest in peace. This poem appeared in our 45/2, Fall 2015 issue. Honey leader honey from the lion’s body I bring youA food or mental…
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Congratulations to Katherine Gibbel, whose “Salubrious Poem” won the Tim McGinnis Award for 2024. The McGinnis Award is given yearly to the piece published in TIR that best fits the comic spirit of writer Tim McGinnis, whose story “The Trail” was published in 1986. The Salubrious Poem The wide river…
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Congratulations to Ben Ahlrichs, whose poem “Abderus on Heracles” has been been selected as the winner of the The Iowa Review‘s David Hamilton Undergraduate Creative Writing Prize. This prize is sponsored by anonymous donors who wish to honor the mentorship and support that students at the University of…
