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By Michael Tidemann
So what is Iowa, and who are Iowans?
Those are the questions Timothy Fay answers in his charming essay collection, The Wapsipinicon Almanac, recently released by the University of Iowa Press. The book contains a collection of contributions from writers, artists and advertisements over the more than 30-year span of Fay’s literary journal by the same title. Fay published the journal on a letterpress from 1988 through 2018.
For 30 years, The Wapsipinicon Almanac was a homegrown journal of great writing by and for Iowans. Even though the final almanac was published in 2018, fans have one more chance to dive in with The Wapsipinicon Almanac anthology. Plus Shir Safi shares his family’s arduous journey of leaving Afghanistan.