Stephanie L. Harper’s Poems in The Iowa Review

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Stephanie L. Harper, my spouse, my partner-in-life, my love, my inspiration, my editor, my everything, has two poems in the latest edition of The Iowa Review. This is THE BIG TIME! The list of writers published in the pages of this major journal include the likes of Jorge Luis Borges, Anne Carson, Louise Gluck, Jorie Graham, Kurt Vonnegut, and many, many others we can only hope to emulate. Now Stephanie’s rubbing (metaphoric) elbows with them. I am so proud of Stephanie and so happy for her, because I know, I’ve seen, how hard she’s worked at her craft. One of the two poems illustrates this commitment to the art: “Pelvic Organ Prolapse” is an “in-titled” poem. Created by Stephanie, this form is composed exclusively of the letters appearing in its title, with no letter occurring within any individual word in the poem more times than it does in its title. To say the least, it is a maddening form to attempt. But here it is, within the pages of The Iowa Review!

Pelvic Organ Prolapse

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36 thoughts on “Stephanie L. Harper’s Poems in The Iowa Review”

  4. Merci tout les buckets, Dan!

    Sun Hesper Jansen’s description of my “In-titled” form as “gleefully masochistic” is a reliable indication that it’s not meant for everyone to try at home, much less in a box, or with a fox… 😉

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  14. Congratulations and joy beyond measure to Stephanie! This is the Big Time, and this is a big, important poem. The in-title form is quite the challenge to throw down, the poem’s subject is an explosion of taboo, only whispered about, one of those secret life experiences kept out of poems. The truth of the poem but also the ways Stephanie handles it! Ah, so well done.

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