"Clues to a Drowning"..."Learning to Swim"..."Waterfall, Rock, Trout"..."The Great Deluge and Its Coming"..."In Which the River Makes Off with Three Stationary Characters"...our Fall 2009 issue offers poems, stories, and nonfiction on the theme of Rivers in commemoration of the 2008 flood that swept our state and ourselves into a new place entirely, one that keeps surprising and challenging us even a year later, one in which we no longer take our rivers for granted.

Table of Contents, Fall 2009

David Hamilton: River

Zed Ander: City Park: Debris

Ashleigh Pedersen: Small and Heavy World

Joe Blair: Filters

Fleda Brown: Northern Pike

Pattiann Rogers: The Great Deluge and Its Coming; In the Silence Following

Cornelia F. Mutel: Iowa's Waters: A Mirror of the Land
(find a link to this essay here)

Frederic Will: Rivers

Robert Stewart: Clues to a Drowning

Ray A. Young Bear: The Lone Swimmer of Henry County, Virginia

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

Bradley Cook: My Mother's Party

Dianna Penny: River Town Chronicles

Miklavz Komelj: Little Sestinas

John Kinsella: The Sands of Dyarlgaroo; Learning to Swim

Robert F. Sayre: Learning the Iowa River

Laura Sayre: In the Water

David Wagoner: By a Creek

Peter Filkins: Waterfall, Rock, Trout

Lowell Jaeger: Dust to Dust

Christopher Morris: Only a River

Lisa Knopp: No Other River

Dennis Schmitz: Rivers

Jenny Kern: When We Leave

Albert Goldbarth: Beaming Teenage

Nate McKeen: Wild Kingdom

Amy Leach: In Which the River Makes Off with Three Stationary Characters

Barbara Eckstein: An Endangered River Runs Through Us

Margaret Gibson: Carve a Wooden Spool

John Bensko: Fur Traders on the Missouri, 1845

Laura Rigal: Watershed Days on the Treaty Line, 1836–1839

E. Keene: River Run

Philip Miller: Untitled

Anat Pick: to articulate a river: tongueTrum2
listen to a performance of this piece

Our cover features an excerpt of a poster titled "Iowa: Many Rivers Run Through It," created by Rex Heer at the Iowa State University Instructional Technology Center. The full poster is available here.

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