In this issue: toes, 362.28 in the card catalog, a portfolio of fantastical and surreal writing and artwork, a tenure review gone awry, and the winners of the 2019 Iowa Review Awards.
NONFICTION
Julie Gray | Biology II
Derby Maxwell | Tiny Firecrackers
Elizabeth Dodd | Under Review
Andes Hruby | The Kitty
Laura Crossett | A Librarian’s Guide to Mourning
Poetry
Joyelle McSweeney | Post-NICU Villanelle
Brian Sneeden | Origins | Season of Echoes
Philip Metres | Chorus (After the Bombing) | [ ]
Maggie Millner | Peripeteia
Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer | Here’s What We Know
fiction
Chloe Wilson | Tongue-Tied
Sherry Kramer | More Than
Terrence Holt | Ghost Story
Analía Villagra | After
Bruce Holbert | An Ordinary Love Story
Portfolio: Americana Fantastica
Evan James | Introduction to “Americana Fantastica”
R. Kauff | 4 oz Graphite Claw Hammer
Stacey Levine | from Where Is Mice?: A Novel
Shani Jamila | Long Live
Jessica Laser | Propositions | Nursery Rhyme | The Silent Conversation of the Middle
Eugene Lim | Diptych
Phomohobes | Family Dynamics
CAConrad | You Cannot Return a Stretched Mind | Golden in the Morning Crane Our Necks | Camisado
Beth Morgan | Starting from Scratch
Mark Mayer | Swimming Pool Crimes
Kenan Ince | Antiphilin
Eleen Lin | Paintings
Tommy Kha | Mine IX | Sheepshead
Kate Bernheimer | Diamond | I Was Anne Frank | S O N I C Y O U T H | Girls Riding Horses on Cliffs by the Ocean or Sea
Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong | Palazzo Massimo
Bennett Sims | La “Mummia di Grottarossa”
Jacob Eigen | The Difficult Years | The Monkey | The End of the Long, Miserable Evening
Wayne Koestenbaum | [“roar of God”] | [beard smooth skin] | The Promiscuous Unseen
Beth Livensperger | Paintings
Colby Somerville | Poem
Jared Buckheister | Paintings
Rawaan Alkhatib | Crusty Flats | Gardens of Soft Corals
Jesse Treece | Southern Gothic
Micah Bateman | O as a Hole Down the Page
Adrienne Raphel | Phantasmagoria
