Volume 47, Issue 3 — Winter 2017/18

In this issue: pugs and Ms. Pac-Man, growing up in Pittsburgh, wedding parties, bodies and boundaries, an archived interview with James Alan McPherson, one mother’s last wish, and winners of the 2017 Iowa Review Awards.

Poetry 

Mikko Harvey | Amy 
Catherine Cafferty | How Sweet
Melissa Barrett | The Brain Names Itself Asbestos at Best | I Am Both Worse and Better Than | You Thought | Ponds of Blondes | Skinny Wisdom More Praise for Stephen King Death Die Dead 
Dustin Hellberg | Pap
Kazim Ali | Saraswati Puja 
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsleynotes grandpa gave the search party upon his rescue 
Matthew Gwathmey |Love Is a Ship of Fools Crashing into Revivalist Shores | Love Is a Psych Ward Patrolled by Too Many Orderlies 
Kelsi Vanada | This Is the Horse Poem I’ve Been Trying to Write 
Stephanie Burt | Callimachus’s Hymn to Athena 
Kimberly Kruge | A Phenomenalist’s Guide to the Block | Panther in the Primavera 
Niki NeemsLike a Built-In Doubletake 

Fiction 

Amber Dermont | So What If I Love You That’s None of Your Business 
Sean Gill | The Marked Book
Joy Baglio | End Grain
Laura Kolbe | Crimes of Paris 
Simon Han | Story Yellers
Kate Berson | Otros
Taylor Koekkoek | The Wedding Party 

Essays

Andrew Irwin Epstein | Dispatches from Khartoum: Lollipop Diplomacy and the Muddy Banjo Blues 
Terrance Manning, Jr. | Protecting the Pit 
Julie Marie Wade503A  

Interview

Cammy Brothers“There Is No White Culture in This Country”: An Interview with James Alan McPherson 

Review 

Rachel Z. ArndtAlexandra Kleeman’s Intimations 

Artwork

Jennifer ColvilleBodies, Boundaries, and Borderlands: The Work of Fidencio Fifield-Perez and David Taylor