In our Spring 2010 issue: Greek salads, lullabies, uprisings, LBJ, home invasions, meat pie, Charlton Heston, card sharks, and the best reader in America.

P.S. Watch this space! In the coming days we will be bringing you a new and improved Iowa Review web site.

Table of Contents, Spring 2010

POEM
Carrie Etter: Imagined Sons 18: Greek Salad

Mary Leader: Winter Grasses; Patronymic; Lulling

Tom Wayman: What Absence Says

Alison Louise Harney: Hooked

Bob Hicok: a story from the world; Shorn

Michael Anania: Another Iowa Homage

Mark Halliday: Dreamscape: Faunce House; Vannius Deposed

Hailey Leithauser: The Failure of Forewarning; Paean: Moon

Brian Swann: Narratives; Moth

Fred Muratori: World War III

Julie Hanson: Scant

Jim Crenner: Hammock Meteorology; Driving in October, I Burst into Tears

Shira Dentz: Looking through a telescope

John Rybicki: I Watch Her Ride a Current Around the Deli; Monsieur Yeats

Matthew Rohrer: Poets With History/Poets Without History; Poem; The Smell of Frying Fish; Biographies of the Immortals

Marvin Bell: The Book of the Dead Man (Conversation)

Justin Hyde: only waitress at the truck-stop who never uses the cash register; how i learned

Amy Lingafelter: Aldabra Island; Guillotine; What Would Laura Ingalls Wilder Do

Geoffrey Hill: Excerpts from a Work in Progress

Todd James Pierce: Black on White: A Found Poem

Timothy Liu: Beautiful Monotonies

David Moolten: Visitation

Sharon Dolin: Inamorato: A Triolet; With You

David Salner: American Idyl; States and Provinces

Katherine Soniat: Travel

PLAY
Denis Johnson: Purvis (Part One of Three)

STORY
Elisabeth Benjamin: Scarce Lit Sea

Karl Harshbarger: Eureka

Whitney Ray: Red Bird

Sarah Colvert: Slice of Meat Pie

Amina Gautier: In the Event of Emergency

Ben Fountain: Things You Do With Your Feet

Kirsten Clodfelter: Things My Mother Never Taught Me

ESSAY
Ryan Van Meter: Discovery

John T. Price: Charlton Heston Is God

Geoffrey Hill: Address of Thanks to the Sponsors and Jury of the Capote Award for Literary Criticism (2009)

Steve McNutt: SUV vs. Bike, SUV Wins

Stephen Kuusisto: Essay Written at 2 a.m.; The Lottery Sellers

INTERVIEW
Sarah Fay: A Lowly, Humble Bookworm: A Conversation with Michael Silverblatt

On our cover: We wish to congratulate Jingwen Cao, the winner of a cover design contest held by The Iowa Review to celebrate its 40th anniversary. A junior at the University of Iowa, Jingwen is studying toward a BFA in graphic design. Her winning design concept will be featured on all three issues of 2010.

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