Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring

Front Matter, The Iowa Review, v.6 no.2, Spring, 1975

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring

Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers

Robert Hayden

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 1–2

The First Act of Liberation Is to Destroy One's Cage

Michael S. Harper

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 1–1

Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning

Alice Walker

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 2–3

Butterfly Piece

Robert Hayden

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 3–3

Leaving Eden

Ralph A. Dickey

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 3–3

The City

Raymond R. Patterson

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 4–4

The Father

Gayl Jones

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 4–4

Fifteen

Shirley Williams

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 5–5

Soft Kid

Waring Cuney

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 5–5

Dizz on TV

Alvin Aubert

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 6–6

The Return of Julian the Apostate to Rome

Ishmael Reed

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 6–7

Alice

Michael S. Harper

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 7–8

Finale

Ann duCille

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 9–9

Parish Doctor

Sterling A. Brown

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 9–10

To John Oliver Killens in 1974

Gwendolyn Brooks

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 10–11

Deep Song

Gayl Jones

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 11–11

The Old Women of Paris

Dudley Randall

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 12–13

The Point of the Western Pen

Etheridge Knight

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 12–12

Jericho

Ai

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 13–13

Soul Soul Super Bowl

George Barlow

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 13–15

Power

Audre Lorde

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 16–17

Ungod at the Font of the Blues

Anthony McNeill

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 17–18

To All Brothers: From All Sisters

Sonia Sanchez

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 18–19

Words

Raymond R. Patterson

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 18–18

Open

Jerry W. Ward

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 19–20

Lébé

Jay Wright

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 20–21

Homage to My Hair

Lucille Clifton

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 22–22

This Is C. T. R. Reed

Mari Evans

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 22–22

Dust

Everett Hoagland

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 23–24

From "The Book of Shine, XII"

Calvin Forbes

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 23–23

He Imagined the Gorgeous Pattern of the New Skin and Settled for America

Primus St. John

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 24–25

July 4, 1974

June Jordan

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 24–24

For Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1972

Margaret Walker

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 25–26

Two Egyptian Portrait Masks: Nefert-iti; Akhenaten

Robert Hayden

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 26–27

Riding Back on a 30-Year-Old Tractor after Pulling out the Car I Drove into a Ditch, Watching Stars and Lightning from the Northwest

Philip Bryant

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 27–28

Another Note for a Future Memory

Alvin Aubert

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 28–29

Homage to My Hips

Lucille Clifton

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 28–28

Providence, Rhode Island

Al Young

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 29–30

Mr. Booker T.

James W. Blake

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 30–31

Port Arthur

Shirley Williams

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 31–32

Boston

George Buggs

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 32–34

Boston, 5:00 a.m.: 11/74

Etheridge Knight

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 34–34

The Missionaries

Samuel Allen

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 34–35

Christ's Bracero

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 35–36

In an Office of English

Ron Welburn

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 36–37

Silent Canto

Horace Coleman

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 36–36

The Silent Songwriter of Our Apocalypse

Reginald Lockett

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 37–38

On a New York Street Corner: Canvas #14

Quincy Troupe

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 38–39

Richmond Barthé: "Meeting in Lyon"

Melvin Dixon

1975-04-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 39–40