Issue 10 - We are currently open to prose poetry & lyric nonfiction. Guidelines here.
Eastern Iowa Review's 2019 Best Lyric Prose Plus print anthology is now available! Choice selections from Issues 1-6 & 8. You can find it on Amazon.
Eastern Iowa Review's 2019 Best Lyric Prose Plus print anthology is now available! Choice selections from Issues 1-6 & 8. You can find it on Amazon.
ISSUE 10
Editor's Note
We're thrilled to bring you these seven selections, the first installment for our Issue #10. Here's a very short note about, or excerpt from, each:
*Laurel Miram's "The Oldest Spider" is a lovely essay braiding a spider's life with the life of the author. Reader, Amy, said, "One doesn’t ever think of an insect spanning the same amount of time on this earth as a human. I was fascinated with the correlation of their lives, patterns, daily survival and living with the consequences."
*In Lisa Bellamy's "Wisdom" - a prose poem - a little girl meets the Traveler at the well. An intriguing and beautiful story that resonates.
*Elisabeth Fondell shares "An Essay on Gray" - "Gray is possibility, it’s the in-between, an outcome not yet realized, a challenge not yet overcome."
*Emily Kingery gives us "Seventeen" - a prose poem where "When the doctor says safe, he means the way turtleneck sweaters are safe, the way carrying a flour sack for a week is safe. He asks about her habits: hemlines, perfumes, candy-flavored glosses. She plays along with yeses; she understands that sweetness attracts bees. Worse than the stings, the gloss never lasts, smeared off on some upholstery, some floor. The magazines don’t tell you that."
*Marc Frazier, in "Waiting to Grow Up" - another prose poem, tells us that "Mother could turn anything—a wrinkle in time—into a casserole. And we’d eat it."
*And in a prose poem by Haley Petcher - "To You, When Displaced" - the author amasses good wishes on the object of her affection.
We're thrilled to bring you these seven selections, the first installment for our Issue #10. Here's a very short note about, or excerpt from, each:
*Laurel Miram's "The Oldest Spider" is a lovely essay braiding a spider's life with the life of the author. Reader, Amy, said, "One doesn’t ever think of an insect spanning the same amount of time on this earth as a human. I was fascinated with the correlation of their lives, patterns, daily survival and living with the consequences."
*In Lisa Bellamy's "Wisdom" - a prose poem - a little girl meets the Traveler at the well. An intriguing and beautiful story that resonates.
*Elisabeth Fondell shares "An Essay on Gray" - "Gray is possibility, it’s the in-between, an outcome not yet realized, a challenge not yet overcome."
*Emily Kingery gives us "Seventeen" - a prose poem where "When the doctor says safe, he means the way turtleneck sweaters are safe, the way carrying a flour sack for a week is safe. He asks about her habits: hemlines, perfumes, candy-flavored glosses. She plays along with yeses; she understands that sweetness attracts bees. Worse than the stings, the gloss never lasts, smeared off on some upholstery, some floor. The magazines don’t tell you that."
*Marc Frazier, in "Waiting to Grow Up" - another prose poem, tells us that "Mother could turn anything—a wrinkle in time—into a casserole. And we’d eat it."
*And in a prose poem by Haley Petcher - "To You, When Displaced" - the author amasses good wishes on the object of her affection.
DECEMBER FICTION
Fan fiction by Rachel Rodman - "Frosty: A Man for All Seasons" - Frosty as Caveman, Eggman, Superman, and others, in this unique look at a central winter figure.
Fan fiction by Rachel Rodman - "Frosty: A Man for All Seasons" - Frosty as Caveman, Eggman, Superman, and others, in this unique look at a central winter figure.
