Review of The Iowa Review

The Iowa Review is published three times a year in April, August and December. This journal publishes unsolicited poetry, fiction and non-fiction. One of my co-workers suggested this journal to me when I asked her about poetry journals. On one of their links, there is a list of reviews from readers and one from a newspaper which adds to the journal’s respectability. It is also associated with the University of Iowa.
Unsolicited submissions to The Iowa Review can be made in September, October and November and must include a SASE. E-mail submissions will not be accepted. To submit specifically in the poetry genre, “Poetry” must be written on the cover letter included with the submissions. The journal asks for a submission of up to five poems at a time. They publish poetry of all kinds. They do pay for poems that are published ($1.50 per line of poetry with a $40 minimum). They purchase the rights to anything that is published in the journal.
In order to review a full journal, one must subscribe to The Iowa Review but there is a Table of Contents for each of the back issues on their website and several of these have links to the actual poems. I was actually able to read quite a few poems from these links. The poetry published is a wide variety of mostly free verse poems that have very strong imagery. They welcome new, unpublished writers as well as established poets. The contact information is as follows: The Iowa Review 308 EPB Iowa City, IA 52242 (319) 335-0462.