Recently added articles from Iowa Review:
HUMAN RIGHTS INDEX
Dec 01, 2008; ... Prepared by the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR)* On December 10, 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), heralding a global commitment to the inherent dignity and equality of all- human beings. So doing, it sparked a ...
Bamboo Poem
Dec 01, 2008; ... Nothing loves anything more than a panda loves bamboo. They eat from and live in bamboo exclusively. Every morning pandas wake to hushed leaf-rustle. In a day the panda will devote fourteen hours solely to eating bamboo only two ...
Stop Six, Ft. Worth
Dec 01, 2008; ... When the police found the bodies packed into the trunk of a car parked in the Shack's driveway, Stanton and me were on the porch, smoking up the cigarettes he ripped off from his job at the Tom Thumb. Mom didn't let us smoke, not where she could see, but she was off doing her bus route and ...
Where the Children Are
Dec 01, 2008; ... I In June of 2007, a brief news item appeared in the New York Times under the headline, "Mother Charged After Sons' 4 A.M. Walk." It reported that two boys - one three years old, the other eighteen months - were found wandering around outside an A&P supermarket in northern New Jersey ...
Helen of Sparta
Dec 01, 2008; ... Laney Beck came to stay with us the autumn that my older brother, Darren, turned sixteen and insufferable. It had been a torrid summer - the second hottest on record along Florida's Gulf Coast - so dry that the freshwater pond behind our motel withered into caked, cracking earth. Carcasses of ...
Frescoes from the Brancacci Chapel
Dec 01, 2008; ... Florence, 2006 (i) St. Peter Curing the Lame with His Shadow His legs are like sticks. My stepfather's leg was a stick. As he walked down the sidewalk dogs barked at him. My stepfather didn't talk, not even when he drank. He never begged. Not when ...
Between Sand and Sky
Dec 01, 2008; ... It was January in North Africa, and I was twenty years old. I'd expected the desert to be hot, but as I stood with my tour group in the pale blue light of early morning, the air was surprisingly cold. It was the kind of cold, I was beginning to understand, that only happens in empty places, ...
Names of the Spade
Dec 01, 2008; ... A tool for digging. Simple machine, lever, bearer of earth. Smoother of the final sentence of land, architect of permanence. Upsetter, rude awakener, policer of interlopers on the private sphere. Coastal occupant, seasonal friend of children. Catalyst of early violence. Soil-knife, separator of ...
Annunciation: Eve to Ave
Dec 01, 2008; ... The wings behind the man I never saw. But often, afterward, I dreamed his lips, Remembered the slight angle of his hips, His feet among the tulips and the straw. I liked the way his voice deepened as he called. As for the words, I liked the ...
Annunciation (from the grass beneath them)
Dec 01, 2008; ... how many moments did it hover before we felt it was like nothing else, it was not bird light as a mosquito, the aroma of walnut husks while the girl's knees pressed into us every spear of us rising, sunlit & coarse the wild bees murmuring ...
Annunciation in Play
Dec 01, 2008; ... Into the 3rd second, the girl holds on, determined not to meet his gaze She swerves her blue sleeve, closes down the space, while his eyes are intent, unwilling to relent and late into the 5th second, they are still fighting on, ...
Romans 12:1
Dec 01, 2008; ... I will begin with the body: Porous and wet, love-wracked And willing, body on the cross, Body in the fire, black Body hanging like the dead Limbs from a tree in the year Of our Lord. In my 23rd year, A certain obsession overtook My ...
Track 5: Summertime
Dec 01, 2008; ... as performed by Jams Joplin God's got his eye on me, but I ain't a sparrow. I'm more like a lawn mower ... no, a chainsaw, Anything that might mangle each manicured lawn In Port Arthur, a place I wouldn't return to If the mayor offered me every ounce of ...
November Moon, Past Full
Dec 01, 2008; ... Pours its dead, mimetic light upon the lilac, that shrub still posing like the manikin of foliage as if it were summertime. Moonlight on the witch hazel, which was ugly before and then again, just after flowering. It was summer so soon then ...
The Seabee
Dec 01, 2008; ... In June when Mother drove us to the lake my father stayed behind, but Friday mornings he flew up in his Seabee, circling over the cottage till we ran outside and waved. He tipped one sunlit, silver wing, then landed and taxied to the dock. Even ...
The Last Train to Montparnasse
Dec 01, 2008; ... He is doing a song and a dance to entertain the people while they wait, to keep them entranced in line, to take their minds off the duration of the wait. This is the last train to Montparnasse. But we wanted to go to ...
She
Dec 01, 2008; ... She lay next to me. We could see the lights of the city through the glass: Sacramento. Longing to touch her, I touched her. Then the door to the room began to open. Excuse me, we cried, but the person, a man, entered ...
I Kept the Part about Turning Fifty
Dec 01, 2008; ... "More on the theme of suddenly finding yourself at middle age and less perhaps about memories that are more telling to the writer than the reader." -Rejection slip So I lost the part about walking to school, the new subdivision after the war, unfinished, cutting ...
Victory at Sea
Dec 01, 2008; ... Stan Craig's trailer was the source of a lot of talk in Fort Lunch; it was the first personally owned trailer that had dual wheels on double axles. He bought it one Saturday on Tradio, the morning swap-talk show on knup, the radio station in town. The fiberglass boat factory in Permission was ...
Crazy
Dec 01, 2008; ... for Max Winter The students were thanking her and then hugging her, filing out the front door and leaving down the walk. They liked the food, the wheat berry salad and the fennel tart. They liked the beer, too, and would she come with him to school sometime to hear a reading of one of ...