Katy Giebenhain: How I Wrote 'Iowa River, October Wind' - Poetry Wales

Katy Giebenhain: How I Wrote 'Iowa River, October Wind' - Poetry Wales

Lucile Russing “The Iowa River was right there before me. Like all rivers it has a history. It was no leap to think about the way we treat performers and natural resources.”Iowa River, October WindLike Dylan Thomas I am only passing through. Waiting for the airport taxi,sun buttering the backs of my hands,the uni crew rowing past.The air is not the same air he breathed. The water is not the same water.But the river’s body is. And like it, Thomas…