The Iowa Review

Skolfield, Karen

Rescued Parrots Used in PTSD Therapy

Khalastchi, Daniel

"The Anxiety of Not Knowing": An Interview with James Galvin

The Great Sacrifice of the Romans on Undertaking a War: after the engraving in A Dictionary of All Religions, 1753

Barnhart, Graham

24 graham barnhart
Indiana-stan
  First: HE rounds 
their kicked-up smoke dust 
same color as whatever earth they strike. 
Nothing seen we know them 
by bellows thumping bare hills 
beyond the bombed-out tank hulks 
we were supposed to hit. 
A thunder you can set your watch to.  
  Next: illume rounds
packed light and smoke 
and shot too low 
start fires in the tall grass.  
Imagine these man-made stars washing 
night like photograph half developed.
In daylight, just ash dragging fields
that aren’t allowed to burn.  
  Of course: over there 
if the wheat crops, or the poppy 
harvest go to roast, we won’t 
wait for the fires to die out safely.  
We can leave as soon we start them. 


English

Indiana-stan

Gwathmey, Matthew

Love Is a Ship of Fools Crashing into Revivalist Shores

Brothers, Cammy

"There Is No White Culture in This Country": An Interview with James Alan McPherson

Van Landingham, Corey

Elegy for the Sext

Bush, Ben

Introverts

Higgins, Sean

The Blaze-Orange Freak Tag

Cannon, Frances

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