David Hamilton, Editor of the Iowa Review, presided over the annual program dedicated to authors who have published in the Iowa Review. This year Jim McKean, author of Home Stand: Growing Up in Sports, will read a Pushcart Prize-winning essay,...
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This year's Iowa Review reading is a special event held at Old Capitol, honoring David Hamilton for his years as editor of the Review. It features readings from issue #39/2 of one of the nation's premier literary journals. The incoming editor,...
Writers from the new Fall 2011 issue read from their work and the editors of this issue share inside stories from behind the slush pile. Featured readers include Eduardo Halfon, Kim Lozano, and the editors of the Iowa Review.
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The Iowa Review, edited by Russell Valentino, selects content for each issue from several thousand unsolicited manuscripts from across the country and abroad. The magazine’s mission of nudging along American literature, being local but not...
Nick Twemlow and Joel Craig read from their new collections of poems. Nick Twemlow reads from Palm Trees, his first full length collection. Robert Fernandez describes Twemlow as a poet “at once debased and ecstatic, resigned and ambitious, victim...
Amy Leach received an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Iowa. Her essays have been published in The Iowa Review, A Public Space, and The Wilson Quarterly. She is working on a collection of essays about Eta Carinae (a star),...
Warren Slesinger was a university press editor for several years. In 2003, he received the South Carolina Poetry Fellowship. His poems and "definitions" have appeared in numerous publications. "Margin" appears in the current (Spring 2008) issue of...
Jim Barnes's ninth book of poetry, Visiting Picasso (2007), is published by University of Illinois Press. He and his wife, Cora McKown, an artist and designer, live in Santa Fe and have a ranch in eastern Oklahoma. The entire poem "Five...
Jennifer Pilch's poems are forthcoming in Third Coast and Ur Vox and have appeared in 26, American Letters and Commentary, Cutbank, Denver Quarterly, Failbetter, and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in Southern California. "Camden Refractory"...
Malachi Black is literary editor of The New York Quarterly. He lives in New York City. "Dandelion" appears in the current (Spring 2008) issue of The Iowa Review, a literary magazine based at the University of Iowa. Founded in 1970, The Iowa Review...
Nance Van Winkel's fifth collection of poems, No Starling, is recently out from University of Washington Press. She is also the author of three collections of short fiction. She teaches in the MFA Programs at Eastern Washington University and...
J.D. Robinson lives and writes in Little Rock, Arkansas. He keeps a tattered photocopy of Ted Solotaroff's essay "Writing in the Cold" in his top desk drawer. "Relentless" appears in the current (Spring 2008) issue of The Iowa Review, a literary...
Lance Larsen's third collection of poems is forthcoming from University of Tampa Press this year. His essays have appeared in Agni, Quarterly West, Hunger Mountain, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. The entire essay "A Feeling in Your Head" appears...
Nick Courtright, an Ohio native, currently resides in Austin, Texas. In his spare time he teaches composition at Texas State University, and his poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Court Green, The Literary Review, Zone 3, Caketrain, and...
Deborah Bogen's first full-length collection, Landscape with Silos, won the 2005 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. Her poems and reviews appear widely. "Cantilevered Bedtime Story" appears in the current (Spring 2008) issue of The Iowa Review, a literary...