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National Poetry Month Continues! IHLR 14.2, The NaPoMo Issue

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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.

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May Back Issue of the Month: 2011 Father’s Day Issue

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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.

Orders for a single issue can be placed online HERE, or by mailing $3 cash or check (made out to Iron Horse Literary Review) to Iron Horse Literary Review, Texas Tech University, Department of English, Box 43091, Lubbock, TX  79409-3091. Please include a note specifying the appropriate shipping address. NOTE: Orders for multiple issues must be processed by mail.

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Poet Rhett Iseman Trull to Read at Texas Tech April 12

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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.

Rhett Iseman Trull’s first book of poetry, The Real Warnings (Anhinga Press, 2009), received the 2008 Anhinga Prize for Poetry, the 2010 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award, the 2010 Brockman Campbell Award, and the 2010 Oscar Arnold Young Award. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2008, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and other publications. Her other awards include prizes from the Academy of American Poets and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation. She received her BA from Duke University and her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she was a Randall Jarrell Fellow. She and her husband publish Cave Wall in Greensboro, North Carolina.

This is the third and final reading in this year’s Iron Horse Reading Series, sponsored by Iron Horse Literary Review, the Texas Tech University Department of English, and the Texas Tech University Graduate School.

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April Back Issue of the Month: NaPoMo Issue 2011

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Each month Iron Horse Literary Review designates one or more back issues for sale at a special, reduced price of only $3 each. This month, in celebration of National Poetry Month, we’re highlighting last year’s NaPoMo Issue (IHLR 13.2). This all-poetry issue features cover art and poetry by Virgil Suárez, as well as poems by Traci Brimhall, Charles Harper Webb, Lesley Jenike, Christopher Buckley, Rafael Campo, Alison Pelegrin, Bob Hicok, Anne-Marie Thompson, Adam Vines, and many more. View a full table of contents in our archives.

Orders for a single issue can be placed online HERE, or by mailing $3 cash or check (made out to Iron Horse Literary Review) to Iron Horse Literary Review, Texas Tech University, Department of English, Box 43091, Lubbock, TX  79409-3091. Please include a note specifying the appropriate shipping address. NOTE: Orders for multiple issues must be processed by mail.

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AWP Fortune Cookie Poem Contest

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"Fortune Cookies" by maza34 on Flickr, used under a Creative Commons license.

If you stopped by the Iron Horse table at AWP and picked up one of our fortune cookies, here’s a reminder of what to do with it:

1.  Break open cookie. Eat cookie. Do not eat paper.
2.  Read fortune. Let inspiration strike.
3.  Write a poem with your “fortune” as the title.
4.  Send your poem to mail@ironhorsereview.com by March 31.

We’ll publish the poem we like best in the 2013 IHLR National Poetry Month Issue. Good luck!

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With Love from Us to You: IHLR 14.1, Valentine’s II Issue

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IHLR 14.1, the Valentine’s II Issue, is now available. We sold out our first Valentine’s Issue, IHLR 10.1; now we’re spreading the love (lost & found, spurned & received) again, four years later.

In this issue you’ll find fiction by Teresa Milbrodt and Jackie Reitzes; poetry by Ashley Danielle Ryle, Karrie Warrala, Rebecca Parson, Aran Donovan, John Davis, Adam Deutsch, and Gary Dop; and creative nonfiction by Scott Nadelson.

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.

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Introducing IHLR 13.6, the Fireside Issue

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The newest issue of Iron Horse Literary Review, which we’ve dubbed the Fireside Issue, is sure to make for cozy reading.

This winter-themed issue features fiction by Elizabeth Buchanan and Khristian Mecom; poetry by Brock Guthrie, Douglas Ray, B.J. Best, Doug Ramspeck, Benjamin Myers, and Randolph Thomas; a flash nonfiction piece by Lili Wright; and a stunning cover photo by Charles Patterson.

Aaron Alford’s “Hit List” column has a little bit of everything–Yeats, H.D., the Beatles, Motown, and a winter ennui somewhere between angst and fluff. And in this issue’s “Horselaugh,” Brent Newsom offers up “Mash-Up Paradelle: Winter Tunes.”

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 ordering a back issue. This issue will also be featured at AWP in Chicago–come by and see us at table B17 in the Bookfair.

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