One of the five best small magazines in America. 
          --- Christian Science Monitor 

Stately and experimental. 
          --- Holly Fleming, El Cajon, California 

This most beautiful of magazines. 
          --- Alix Beeney, Larkspur, Colorado 

Keep up the good Iowa Review work --- it is simply the best. 
          --- Craig Loomis, Stockton, California 

One of the great achievements of the University of Iowa. 
          --- James O. Freedman, President, Dartmouth College 

We're concerned about the level of judgment that's been exercised by the people responsible for its publication . . .such materials are a violation of what most people in Iowa would find prudent. 
          --- Rep. Kenneth Veenstra, R. Orange City, Iowa 

Any journal that can, in one issue, include poems alluding to Frost and Kennedy & Teresa Brewer and Edie Gorme has my admiration and my subscription. 
          --- Robert Webb, Cohutta, Georgia

Art on this page by Tom Wegman