Yes, my friends, this is a thing that’s happening IRL!
Please join me in expressing my heartfelt thanks to The Iowa Review editors Lynne Nugent and Jen Frantz for selecting my poems, “Pelvic Organ Prolapse” (photo included below) and “The Shape of Unsayable,” for publication in TIR’s issue 54.1 (spring 2024). I’ll post an update when the link to order copies of this issue is available.
SLHARPERPOETRY 
You deserve this, and all the plums, too (and some donuts and brownies)!
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The ice box will be well picked-over before I’m through with it… 😘 ILYSM!!
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I may even be willing to share some cheese. 😃
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Congrats, Stephanie and well-deserved once again! Love your invented form and the playfulness with which you treat our beloved pelvic organs!
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Oh great news, wonderful poetry!
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🙏☺️❤️
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Just wonderful!
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Congratulations, Stephanie! Those pelvic organs may be past their prime, but not your poetic aptitude. And really, what’s more important, as we age? 🙂
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Thanks, Cate! Yep! What I may lack in elasticity these days I more than make up for with alacrity… 😜
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It takes one wonder to know another! 🥰
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O organic, grieving, ever-loving verse… This horse would give up just out of the gate, and cheer you to the finish line. Congratulations, Stephanie!
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Also am I the only one who wants to see the lines “is no pal” and “leaves one cooling in one’s pee” and certainly also “a page in lore”as crossword clues in The NY Times?
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I know you’re one of at least two… 😜
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Congratulations!
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