Willow Springs 40
June 1997
Poetry
TIMOTHY KELLY
At Pacific Rim
Two on a Shaman’s Rattle, Tlingit, UBC Museum of ManTwo on a Shaman’s Rattle, Tlingit,
UBC Museum of Man
ANDREA WERBLIN
Saints in the Hedges
ELISABETH MURAWSKI
She Looks Everywhere
The Audience
PETER SEARS
Men and Fat
Shoveling Snow While It Is Still Snowing
We Talk About You, Death
AMY NEWMAN
Sophistry of the Quince Fruit
September
JACK MARTIN
Pinochle
JAMES HAUG
The Peace
SUSANNE KORT
As I Recollect the July You
JOHN GREY
Martha’s Story
TONY GARDNER
Restorative Art
MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
The Heart
Fallen Jerusalem
Dryad
Catch Me
REX WEST
How Cubism Met the Modern World
CINDY BOSLEY
Patience of God
MARK BABBINS
Coelacanth
STEPHEN R. ROBERTS
On Swimming Pool Maintenance
LINDA LEE HARPER
Small Factory
THOMAS REITER
The Delivery
S. RAMNATH
Excellent Leisure
RON MCFARLAND
Sixteen
On the Way to Pierce
WILLIAM TREMBLAY
Juniper
The Sagebrush Hours
CHASE TWICHELL
Minor Problems
Sanctuary
STEPHEN AJAY
The Memory of Spring in Bali
The Morning Green with Birds
LEN ROBERTS
Double Yolk
April Storm, Olmstead Street Garden
JESSICA HENRICKSEN
Virginia in the River
Storm
ELIZABETH MCLAGAN
The House Let Go To Sky
Poetry in Translation
P. KOBYLARZ (translated by MONIQUE MANOPOULOS)
the ocularist
Willow Springs Poetry Award
B. T. SHAW
No. 2 Venus
Fiction
JOHN WORKS
3800 Monterrey
ALAN VANNEMAN
Living in the Year of Our Lord 1959, AD
Willow Springs Fiction Award
DORIAN GOSSY
Florida Postcards
AWP Intro Award Winners
BRENDA MILLER
Needlepoint
CATHERINE MENG
Cranes
JENIFER WILOUGHBY
Pretty
LISA BESTEIN
The Death of Sade
DEBRA LASER
The Blue Bowl
ANDER MONSON
Siding
NEIL THORNTON
On the Wrong End of a Cow with a Shovel in My Hand
Willow Springs 40 features poetry, prose, and translation by Chase Twichell, Ron McFarland, Michael Heffernan, Peter Sears, and more. The issue also includes B. T. Shaw’s “No. 2 Venus,” winner of the 1997 Willow Springs Poetry Prize and Dorian Gossy’s “Florida Postcards,” winner of the 1997 Willow Springs Fiction Prize.