In this issue: birthday cake, auctioneering school, the 2018 Hawaii false missile alert, a male masseuse in Kanagawa Prefecture, a love performance, the winner of the 2019 David Hamilton Prize for Iowa Review Alumni, and tributes to Connie Brothers.
POETRY
Ryu¯nosuke Akutagawa, translated by Ryan Choi | Flowers of the Sal Tree, “Masks,” Frosty Night, Merchant Virgin Mary
Cal Bedient | What Was to Be an Elegy for Emily Dickinson
Matthias Göritz, translated by Mary Jo Bang | Trolleybus No. 3, To Stand
Benjamin Krusling | youth passes but there’s no opposite
Emily Pittinos | Orphan, Lissome in the Dust Storm
Michele Glazer | Thereafter, Spring & all that
Eric Tran | Lectio Divina: Hektor the Assassin, Saga #9
Sarah Matthes | The Jungle of Sick Animals
David Trinidad | Last Poem, David Trinidads, Why, today, do I think of Mary,
FICTION
Kate Osana Simonian | The Pet
Karl Taro Greenfeld | Vital Energies
Alberto Olmos, translated by Nina Perrotta | ? Love Performance
Remy Barnes | Sweet Thing
Michael Byers | The Demolition Derby Team of the First, Church of the Word of Elvis, Iceboat, Copperhead, Picchvai
Ralph E. Rodriguez | The Music Inside You
NONFICTION
B. Domino | Champagne Room
Brittany Borghi | A Delicate Strength
Emily Greenberg | Lost in the Desert of the Real
Clinton Crockett Peters | A Portrait of the Artist at His Home in Texas
Steve Gerkin | The Legend of the Protestor with the Molar Bandana
A TRIBUTE TO CONNIE BROTHERS
Lan Samantha Chang
Robert Hass
Francine Prose
James Galvin
Marilynne Robinson
Chris Adrian
Brenda Hillman
INTERVIEW
Izzy Casey | David Trinidad: An Interview Under the Influence
ARTWORK
Meg Mitchell | Birthday
