Willow Springs 48
June 2001
Poetry
JULIANA BAGGOTT
The Birds and the Bees: What to Tell the Children
KURT BROWN
America 1968
JAMES GRABILL
At the Ballpark of Exchanged Gnosis
MICHAEL STRELOW
Licking Statues
DARA WIER
Day After a Funeral
A Walk in Dubuque
JIM HEYNEN
Maniacs and Idiots
CAROL JAMES BANG
Psalm V: Migration
DENNIS SALEH
Typefoundry
ROBERT BENSE
Material Commenting on Matter: An Operetta in One Act
MARK HALLIDAY
Surely
Shelved
DENISE DUHAMEL
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Kenneth Koch
LEX RUNCIMAN
Pink
TOM CRAWFORD
Higgins Bar & Grill
Companion to a Loon
Wu Wei
PAISLEY REKDAL
Scientific American and St. Theresa: Ecstasy
JEFFERY THOMSON
Postscript
JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL
Florida, State of Imagination
GEORGE LOONEY
Treatise on the Meliorative Function of Ruin
MELISSA KWASNY
Black Geese in the Honey-Stubble of Fields Near Spring
Letter on My Last Sheet of Paper
Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award
LISA RHODES
Wrecked
Ugly Poem
New Poem
Fiction
WILLIAM RYAN
Stunt
MICHAEL DOWNS
Man Kills Wife, Two Dogs
NICOLE LOUISE REID
(Re)Collection
PAGE HODGEN
Displacement
George Garret Fiction Award
MICHAEL HOLLISTER
Holywood
Nonfiction
TOM SAYA
Meditations on a Mask
Willow Springs 48 features poetry and prose by Tom Crawford, Melissa Kwasny, Mark Halliday, Page Hodgen, and more. The issue also includes Lisa Rhodes’ “Wrecked,” “Ugly Poem,” and “New Poem,” winner of the 2001 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Michael Hollister’s “Holywood,” winner of the 2001 George Garrett Fiction Award.
