description: In this issue: birthday cake, auctioneering school, the 2018 Hawaii false missile alert, a male masseuse in Kanagawa Prefecture, a love performance, the winner of the 2019 David Hamilton Prize for Iowa Review Alumni, and tributes to Connie Brothers.POETRYRyunosuke Akutagawa, translated by Ryan Choi | Flowers of the Sal Tree, “Masks,” Frosty Night, Merchant Virgin MaryCal Bedient | What Was to Be an Elegy for Emily DickinsonMatthias Göritz, translated by Mary Jo Bang | Trolleybus No. 3, To StandBenjamin Krusling | youth passes but there’s no oppositeEmily Pittinos | Orphan, Lissome in the Dust StormMichele Glazer | Thereafter, Spring &amp; all thatEric Tran | Lectio Divina: Hektor the Assassin, Saga #9Robert Hass | For ConnieBrenda Hillman | The Working Sister of the MusesSarah Matthes | The Jungle of Sick AnimalsDavid Trinidad | Last Poem, David Trinidads, Why, today, do I think of Mary,FICTIONKate Osana Simonian | The PetKarl Taro Greenfeld | Vital EnergiesAlberto Olmos, translated by Nina Perrotta | → Love PerformanceRemy Barnes | Sweet ThingMichael Byers | The Demolition Derby Team of the First, Church of the Word of Elvis, Iceboat, Copperhead, PicchvaiRalph E. Rodriguez | The Music Inside YouNONFICTIONB. Domino | Champagne RoomBrittany Borghi | A Delicate StrengthEmily Greenberg | Lost in the Desert of the RealClinton Crockett Peters | A Portrait of the Artist at His Home in TexasSteve Gerkin | The Legend of the Protestor with the Molar BandanaA TRIBUTE TO CONNIE BROTHERSLan Samantha ChangRobert HassFrancine ProseJames GalvinMarilynne RobinsonChris AdrianBrenda HillmanINTERVIEWIzzy Casey | David Trinidad: An Interview Under the InfluenceARTWORKMeg Mitchell | Birthday
language: English
title: The Iowa Review