Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring

Front Matter

Front Matter, The Iowa Review, 51/2, spring 2022

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring

    Contents

    EDITOR’S NOTE: You Breathed on Me

    • Lynne Nugent

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 1

    Introductory Notes on Poetic Black Resiliency

    • Tracie Morris

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 2–3

    Black Stone

    • Joanne V. Gabbin

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 4–7

    El Cazador - The Hunter

    • Lois Elaine Griffith

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 8–9

    The Presence of Order

    • Yona Harvey

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 10–12

    Once Upon a Time in a Galaxy Far, Far Astray

    • Yona Harvey

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 13–14

    Crosscut Bird Sanctuary

    • Nathaniel Mackey

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 15–22

    A Danger with Portals

    • Shelagh Wilson Patterson

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 23

    “Bout a Thing Bout” (House: Codpiece)

    • Douglas Kearney

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 24

    “It Can Help You Get Low” (Gospel: Poleyn)

    • Douglas Kearney

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 25

    Untitled (“Meditation on Miles”)

    • Steve Cannon

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 26–30

    Our Song of Love

    • Harryette Mullen

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 31

    Departed

    • Harryette Mullen

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 32

    my mind makes for me a window then a door

    • Asiya Wadud

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 33–34

    Overlook BHM

    • Janice A. Lowe

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 35–38

    Maple Street Rag

    • Yolanda Wisher

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 39–45

    Song of the Sandblaster

    • Yolanda Wisher

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 46–47

    yvonda remembers the century house

    • Yolanda Wisher

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 48–49

    spell #45

    • Yolanda Wisher

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 50–51

    I, unsubstantial

    • Delali Ayivor

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 52

    Feeling Pretty Successful

    • Delali Ayivor

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 53

    Dream in Wartime: How We Get Free: Listen Love I & I Life & O Feel It

    • Duriel E. Harris

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 54–56

    The Kafka Virus vs (Thursday)

    • Terrance Hayes

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 57–58

    Excerpt from Un-

    • Jo Stewart

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring

    2016 Requiescat Breaks

    • Tracie Morris

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 67–68

    Inclemency

    • Steffan Triplett

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 69–88

    red rover

    • Maria Zoccola

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 89

    As Close As You Get

    • Dessa

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 90–93

    The Man Who Counted His Chickens

    • Brian Simoneau

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 94

    The Man Who Brought a Knife to a Gunfight

    • Brian Simoneau

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 95

    My Brother William

    • Danica Li

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 96–106

    Friday Market

    • Sara Elkamel

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 107

    The Glenn Gould Memorial Museum

    • Aleyna Rentz

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 108–117

    Prosperity

    • Susan Leslie Moore

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 118

    What Kind of Person

    • Marian Crotty

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 119–131

    excerpts from Father Earth - extractos de Padre Tierra: A Poem in 40 Parts

    • Mariano Zaro
    • Blas Falconer

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 132–137

    Shanglong Temple

    • Su Tong
    • Ting Wang

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 138–149

    Labors of Translation

    • Alice Turski

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 150–152

    Soursop

    • Daisy Hernández

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 153–162

    Atmosphere

    • Jared Joseph

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 163–164

    Rot

    • Kirsten Vail Aguilar

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 165–171

    Mother Moose

    • Liza Cochran

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 172–182

    Harvesting the Mountain

    • Kevin Norwood

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 183

    Soon Right Away

    • Jackson Saul

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 184–186

    Defending Champion; or, In His Harte, Sir Palomydes Wysshed That wyth His Worshyp He Myght Have Ado wyth Sir Trystram Before All Men

    • Daniel Barnum

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 187

    Displacement

    • Julia Lofaso

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 188–193

    Sic: A Palindrome Series

    • Colin Kostelecky

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 194

    Ode to a Harbor Wind

    • Colin Kostelecky

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 195

    Statue of Orpheus

    • Colin Kostelecky

    Volume 51 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Spring • 196