It’s never too late to celebrate poetry! We’re happy to announce that IHLR 14.2, the 2012 NaPoMo Issue, is now available.
This all-poetry issue is chock-full of great work by both well-known and “emerging” poets. Check out this fabulous lineup: Dorianne Laux, Chuck Carlise, Blas Falconer, Camille T. Dungy, Matthew Roth, Leigh Anne Couch, Tyehimba Jess, Naomi Mulvihill, Chad Davidson, Casey Thayer, Austin Allen, Carrie Fountain, Jason Gebhardt, James Tipton, Nick McRae, Billy Reynolds, Benjamin Myers, Glenn Shaheen, Nick Lantz, Brad Clompus, and Andrew Kozma. The issue’s cover features artwork by Stephanie Brooks recently displayed at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Write Now! exhibit.
To purchase a copy, send $5 to Iron Horse Literary Review, Texas Tech University, Department of English, Box 43091, Lubbock, TX 79409-3091. Or, you can now order an issue online by going HERE and following the instructions for purchasing a back issue.
Each month Iron Horse Literary Review designates one or more back issues for sale at a special, reduced price of only $3 each. Our sale this month features the 2011 Father’s Day Issue (IHLR 13.3). This issue features cover art by Virgil Suárez; poetry by Timothy Kercher, Jaclyn Dwyer, Manda Frederick, David Starkey, Diana Arterian, and Jill McCabe Johnson; fiction by David James Poissant, Karin C. Davidson, and Michael Baccam; and a personal essay by Lindsay Beamish, our 2011 Discovered Voices Award winner in nonfiction.
Spontaneous Confession of the Obvious: Here at IHLR, we’re book nerds. Big book nerds. One consequence of our obsession is that every time a visiting writer comes to Texas Tech, we gobble up all their books, then display them on a big shelf in our office. What could we want with all those books, you ask? We want to share them with YOU! Of course, we also want to share with you all the great fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction Iron Horse publishes in every issue, six times a year. Ergo–
Poet Rhett Iseman Trull will give a reading at Texas Tech University on Thursday, April 12, 7:30-8:30 in English 001. A reception and book signing will follow the reading, with refreshments provided.
Bonnie J. Rough is the author of the new memoir Carrier: Untangling the Danger in My DNA (Counterpoint), winner of a 2011 Minnesota Book Award. Her essays have appeared in many magazines, literary journals, and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Sun, Huffington Post, The Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, Identity Theory, and Brevity. They have also appeared in several anthologies, including Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion (Three Rivers Press), The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 1 (W.W. Norton), and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 (Houghton Mifflin). Bonnie holds an MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She has taught at The Loft Literary Center and is now an honored visiting artist on the faculty of the Ashland University MFA program. Her many awards include a Bush Artist Fellowship, a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers, and a Minnesota State Arts Board grant.