Issue 20
We are excited to announce an Eastern Iowa Review 2025 Best Prose Poetry anthology:
prose poetry selections from issues 9 through 19.
It is now available for a very reasonable $9.99! You can order it here.
Included are 36 prose poems from 8 of the 11 issues. The list of authors included can be found here.
You will love this collection!
Reviewers are saying:
"This is a gorgeous collection of prose poetry that demonstrates all the many ways writers can work with this form. Each delivers its own spectacular moment of ah-ha! Beautifully laid out to highlight each selection."
"Wonderful collection for both prose poem enthusiasts and newcomers to the genre alike."
"Prose poems may not be the favorites of everyone, but this collection of poems is worthy of your time. Many will require a second reading and some contemplation, but it will be time well spent."
We are excited to announce an Eastern Iowa Review 2025 Best Prose Poetry anthology:
prose poetry selections from issues 9 through 19.
It is now available for a very reasonable $9.99! You can order it here.
Included are 36 prose poems from 8 of the 11 issues. The list of authors included can be found here.
You will love this collection!
Reviewers are saying:
"This is a gorgeous collection of prose poetry that demonstrates all the many ways writers can work with this form. Each delivers its own spectacular moment of ah-ha! Beautifully laid out to highlight each selection."
"Wonderful collection for both prose poem enthusiasts and newcomers to the genre alike."
"Prose poems may not be the favorites of everyone, but this collection of poems is worthy of your time. Many will require a second reading and some contemplation, but it will be time well spent."
(May 2025) Our final 2021 Eastern Iowa Review's Chapbook Contest winning book is now available!
Congratulations to Jericho Hockett and her Rituals for Dissolution!
You will love this fine collection of 36 prose poems-as rituals.
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EASTERN IOWA REVIEW'S
2025 Best of Net Nominations
Virginia Boudreau's nonfiction: "Green Dory"
Jayne Marek's prose poem: "Mountain Ibex"
Michelle Nicolaysen's nonfiction: "All That We Don't Control"
Mandira Pattnaik's fiction: "What do I tell you, Sundarban Bagh"
Sarah Seidel's prose poem: "Were there years enough"
Juanita Smart's prose poem: "When I ignite into the clearing"
Congratulations to all! These are excellent pieces of writing.
(May 2024) One of the two 2021 Eastern Iowa Review's Chapbook Contest winning books is now available!
Congratulations to Walter Shriner and his Winter: A celebration of nature and seasonal change in the Pacific Northwest
You will love this short book of essays.
Congratulations to Walter Shriner and his Winter: A celebration of nature and seasonal change in the Pacific Northwest
You will love this short book of essays.
EASTERN IOWA REVIEW'S
2024 Best of Net Nominations
Meredith MacLeod Davidson - "Mother's Day" (free verse poem)
Kayla Jessop - "Mother of None" (creative nonfiction)
Amy Karon's "Sunday fishing" (prose poetry)
Natalie Marino's "Epilogue" (prose poetry)
Ellene Glenn Moore - "The Dawson's Creek Essay" (lyric essay / memoir)
Jan Price's "Forgiving" (cover art)
Laura Ruby - "Guide Book: Your Visit to the Sedlec Ossuary" (free verse)
Ellen June Wright - "Unmarked Grave c. 1630" (free verse poem)
Maggie Yang - "Cartography" (free verse poem)
Editor's note: We don't choose selections for our journal based on anything but quality and what we're looking for, so in that way, each and every choice we made for Issues 15 & 16 could have been included here. And a certain amount of subjectivity enters into what we pick for "Best of the Net" as we are only allowed so many nominations. Congratulations to each one chosen above. It was a rather grueling job trying to narrow everything down. Don't be discouraged. We need what you're thinking and writing about at this time in history. We desperately need your creativity and encouragement, your truth-telling and vision.
Stay well,
~Chila
2024 Best of Net Nominations
Meredith MacLeod Davidson - "Mother's Day" (free verse poem)
Kayla Jessop - "Mother of None" (creative nonfiction)
Amy Karon's "Sunday fishing" (prose poetry)
Natalie Marino's "Epilogue" (prose poetry)
Ellene Glenn Moore - "The Dawson's Creek Essay" (lyric essay / memoir)
Jan Price's "Forgiving" (cover art)
Laura Ruby - "Guide Book: Your Visit to the Sedlec Ossuary" (free verse)
Ellen June Wright - "Unmarked Grave c. 1630" (free verse poem)
Maggie Yang - "Cartography" (free verse poem)
Editor's note: We don't choose selections for our journal based on anything but quality and what we're looking for, so in that way, each and every choice we made for Issues 15 & 16 could have been included here. And a certain amount of subjectivity enters into what we pick for "Best of the Net" as we are only allowed so many nominations. Congratulations to each one chosen above. It was a rather grueling job trying to narrow everything down. Don't be discouraged. We need what you're thinking and writing about at this time in history. We desperately need your creativity and encouragement, your truth-telling and vision.
Stay well,
~Chila
We are honored to have Eastern Iowa Review and our founding editor mentioned several times, alongside other lyric writers, in Michael Askew's 200+ page doctoral thesis (Doctor of Philosophy University of East Anglia School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing) on "The Lyric Essay."
Although lengthy, it's quite interesting. You can read it here.
Although lengthy, it's quite interesting. You can read it here.
(June 2023)
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