Willow Springs 54

Willow Springs 54

Fall 2004

Poetry

 

ALISON STINE

Swimmers

 

ROBERT WRIGLEY

Simone

Ocean

 

GEORGE EKLUND

On a Sunday Sixteen Miles Deep in the Woods

 

A.J. RATHBUN

Sufficiently Past Melancholy

 

SARAH BUSSE

First Letter to Sylvia

 

EMMA HOWELL

It Is the Morning of the Day of Bleach

Leading Me

Parallel Flight

 

WILLIAM OLSEN

The Unspeakable Where

Loon

Winter Beginning with The Jerry Springer Show

 

MELISSA KWASNY

Reading Novalis in Montana

 

JOAMES GRABILL

Hieroglyphic under the Fir Trees

 

MARK DAWSON

Remembering Her

 

ANDRA SMITH-HANSEN

Winter Mill Yard

Last Shift

 

LANCE LARSEN

Reading Old Diary Entries

 

ADAM HAMMER

What Really Happened to Miami

The Quarterly Review Journal Review

Paul Jumps Every Day

 

JAMES DOYLE

The Bride, the Oyster, and the Singing Red Fish

 

DANEED BERGLAND

When Despair Becomes a Kind of Weather

 

BILL BOGART

Poor Dog

Poetry in Translation

Fiction

 

JESSE MURPHEE

Amnesia

 

T.J. BEITELMAN

Rumination

 

PETER MARKUS

The Moon Is Girl’s Heart

We Make Mud

 

MICHAEL MARTONE 

Contributor’s Note

 

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

 

ALISON STINE

Kabul Lion

George Garret Poetry Award

 

JOAN MICHAEL 

Establishing Witness 

AWP Intro Award Winners

 

Poetry

LAUREN GOLDSTEIN MICHAEL 

Rhythm and Numbers in a Florida Kitchen

 

Nonfiction

PENELOPE SCHWARTZ ROBINSON

All Hands

 

Interview

issue54

Willow Springs 54 features poetry, prose, and translation by Emma Howell, Melissa Kwasny, Peter Markus, Emperor Li Yu, and more. The issue also includes Alison Stine’s “Kabul Lion,” winner of the 2004 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Joan Michael’s “Establishing Witness,” winner of the 2004 George Garrett Fiction Award and an interview with Melanie Rae Thon.

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Willow Springs 68

Willow Springs 68

Fall 2011

Poetry

 

RAY AMOROSI

Only Silence 

 

JAN BEATTY

American Revolver

 

DEXTER L. BOOTH

Moon Building

 

BEVERLY BURCH

Describe how a mirage works

Compare/contrast melancholia and nostalgia

Consider filial piety

 

STACIE CASSARINO

Song for the Unborn Mother

 

GEORGE DAVID CLARK

Reveille in Red

 

MATTHEW DICKMAN

Dog

Halcion

 

BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG

The American Fact

 

SUSAN MAEDER

Blue on Blue

 

ELLISABETH MURAWSKI

Ignominy on Garland Avenue

 

GREG PAPE

Aunt Godiva

 

JUSTIN WADE THOMPSON

in the dust

 

NANCE VAN WINCKEL

“Outlaw Mentality”

Alive at the End of the World

Because B

Last Address

Fiction

 

CLARE BEAMS

Hourglass

 

KIRSTEN SUNDBERG LUNSTRUM

The Remainder Salvaged

Willow Springs Fiction Prize

 

SARAH HULSE

Sine Die

Nonfiction

Interview

issue681

Willow Springs 68 features poetry and prose by Ray Amorosi, Matthew Dickman, Nance Van Winckel, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, and more. The issue also includes Sarah Hulse’s “Sine Die,” winner of the 2011 Willow Springs Fiction Prize, and an interview with Richard Russo.

Willow Springs 67

Willow Springs 67

Spring 2011

Poetry

 

ALEXANDER J. ALLISON

live vibrations

 

TAYLOR COLLIER

In a Goat Pasture Just Outside of Cross Cut, Texas

 

LAARRY CRIST

At the bus stop in passing

 

MIKE DOCKINS

The Rubble

 

LAURIE LAMON

Pain Thinks of Still Life

Babble

This Poem Doesn't Care That It Isn't a Sonnet

Pain Thinks of Black

 

ADRIAN LOUIS

Ghost Road

Sunset at the Indian Cemetery

 

MARJORIE MANWARING

You Imagine a Version of Yourself

 

HUGH MARTIN

Friday Night, FOB Cobra

Observation Post

 

JAY NEBEL

Disclaimer

Loud Mouth

 

MATTHEW NIENOW

On the Day You Were Born

 

KATHRYN NUERNBERGER

A Nice Girl

 

ELEANOR PAYNTER

Appartati

 

CURTIS PERDUE

Return to

A Silence

 

JOHN SANDOVAL

Albuquerque

 

MOLLY TENEBAUM

Bloomery

 

Fiction

 

BUZZ MAURO

Fractions

 

NATALIE SYPOLT

Lettuce

 

JESS WALTER

Please

 

Nonfiction

 

DAWN RUFFEL

The Tea Set From Japan

The Prayer Book

The Bride's Bible

The Teacup

The Florsheim Dog

Tranquil Ease

Garnet Earrings

 

Interview

issue67

Willow Springs 67 features poetry and prose by Laurie Lamon, Hugh Martin, Jess Walter, Dawn Raffel, and more. and interviews with Prageeta Sharma and Lydia Millet. 

Willow Springs 66

Willow Springs 66

Fall 2010

Poetry

 

COLLEEN ABEL

The American Sign Language Translation of "I Have a Dream"

 

FRANCESCA BELL

On the Way to Chevron, My Father Tries to Save My Life

 

PHIL ESTES

My Ars Nature Poetica

The Miracle  of Chile

 

KATHY FAGAN

Self-Portrait as Sycamore in Copper & Pearl

 

KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN

A Great Physicist Recalls the Manhattan Project

 

ALBERT GARCIA

Dig

 

LIZ KAY

Six Minutes

 

JOSEPH MILLAR

Sentimental

Night Watchman

 

JONATHAN PAPAS

Mare Fecunditatis

 

DOREN ROBBINS

Henry Miller at the Library

Front to Back

 

KATRINA ROBERTS

Improbable Wings

 

MICHAEL SALCMAN

Zamboni

 

AMY SCHRADER

--Hello, Blizzard

Ode to Sasquatch 

 

JOE WILKINS

Theodicy Envoy

Fiction

 

KATIE CORTESE

International Cooking for Beginners

 

BRANDI REISSENWEBER

What We're Sure Of

 

Nonfiction

 

KERRY MUIR

The Bridge

 

Willow Springs Fiction Prize

 

STACIA SAINT OWENS 

Color by Numbers

 

Interview

issue66

Willow Springs 66 features poetry and prose by Kathy Fagan, Joseph Millar, Katie Cortese, Kerry Muir, and more. The issue also includes Stacia Saint Owens' "Color By Number," winner of the 2010 Willow Springs Fiction Prize, and an interview with Jess Walter. 

Willow Springs 65

Willow Springs 65

Spring 2010

Poetry

 

RAY AMOROSI

In Praise of Eagles 

         Horses

 

BRAD JOHNSON

High Above the Houses

 

LAURA KASISCHKE

Near-misses

 

MELISSA KWASNY

Pictograph: Bizarre Anthropormorph, Often with Interior Body Decorations 

Petroglyph: The Bird Site, Maze District

My First Ermine

 

GARY COPELAND LILLEY

Colonel Waddell on the Morning of November 10, 1898

The Fire

Fourth and Harnett Streets

The Exodus

 

JEFF MANN

Sunday Morning Biscuits

 

TOD MARSHALL

Vocation

Ferrets in the House

Leaving the Big Hole

Orthodoxy 

 

MATT MAUCH

Ode to James Wright

 

ROBERT NAZARENE

Davy

 

CHISTROPHER ROETHLE

Snapshots: Kilimanjaro Album

 

DAVID WOJAHN

Ending with a Quotation from Walden

Quicken 

 

ROBERT WRIGLEY

They Are Bidden

Memoir

 

Fiction

 

MATT BELL

The Receiving Tower

 

THOMAS COOPER

Hellion

Nonfiction

 

DIANA JOSEPH

Bullets Going Through Objects in Slow Motion

 

Interview

issue65

Willow Spring 65 features poetry and prose by Ray Amorosi, Melissa Kwasny, Matt Bell, Diana Joseph, and more, and interviews with Charles Baxter and Fady Joudah. 

Willow Springs 64

Willow Springs 64

Fall 2009

Poetry

 

CLAY MATTHEWS

Homeowner's Insurance

Job Talk

 

JOHN HODGEN

Witness

 

TODD BOSS

Still We Like to Imagine

 

RAY AMOROSI

What the Sea Grass Told Me 

In the Fog in Massachusetts 

 

STEPHANIE LENOX

Strategic Plan for Mortals

 

SUSAN J. ALLSPAW

Crown of Bedrest

 

DENVER BUTSON

drowning ghazal [I am absent] 

drowning ghazal [then to return]

 

JEREMY VOIGT

John Brown's Hanging

 

DEAN YOUNG

Anti-Ambition

 

JOSIAH BANCROFT

The Canyon Hotel 

 

WESTON CUTTER

Lucinda Williams vs. Weinerdogs

Fiction

 

KIM CHINQUEE 

Labor 

The Waves Were Low

Goose

 

STACIA SAINT OWENS

Viv Thraves Goes Missing

 

MARKO CONSTANS

Milk

 

Lists

 

BLAKE BUTLER

Hair Loop 

          Word Count

 

Willow Springs Fiction Prize

 

HEATHER BRITTIAN BERGSTROM

Slackwater

 

Interview

issue64

Willow Springs 64 features poetry and prose by Stacia Saint Owen, Blake Butler, Ray Amorosi, John Hodgens, and more. The issues also includes Heather Brittain Bergstrom's "Slackwater," winner of the 2009 Willow Springs Fiction Prize, and an interview with Mark Childress and Dorianne Laux.

Willow Springs 69

Willow Springs 69

Spring 2012

Poetry

 

LAURI ANDERSON

On His Latest Dive, My Husband Catches a Humboldt Squid On Camera

 

MARY LOU BUSCHI

The Physics of Falling

 

S. WHITNEY HOLMES

Quantum Leap

 

ADAM HOULE

To the Bed Bug

 

AUSTIN LAGRONE

Tableau with Rockets Redglare

Foreseeable

 

JOSEPH MILLAR

Day of the Dead

Nativity

 

CARL PHILLIPS

And It Begins Like This

 

KATHLENE POSTMA

He Was A Hell of A Cat

 

STEVE PRICE

Bravissimo

 

PAISLEY REKDA

W.C. Fields Takes A Walk

Rosenthal Glove Mold, 1920

 

KRISTIN ROBERTSON

For Red-Winged Blackbirds

 

MICHAEL MARTIN SHEA

How to Say, “I Was Scared of Fire as a Kid”

 

CRAIG VAN ROOYEN

Yosemite Falls

Fiction

 

DIANE LEFER

Sin-Tra-La!

 

SCOTT OAK

The Fluency of Dreams

 

ERIC SCOT TRYON

         Monopoly Money

 

MATTHEW VOLLMER

Dog Lover

 

Nonfiction

 

STEVE ADAMS

Balloons

 

MELISSA LEAVITT

Show Off 

 

Interview

issue69

Willow Springs 69 features poetry and prose by Austin LaGrone, Paisley Rekdal, Matthew Vollmer, Melissa Leavitt, and more, and interviews with Matthew Dickman and Robert Lopez.

Willow Springs 58

Willow Springs 58

Fall 2006

Poetry

 

TESS GALAGHER

Water Walking

 

JEFFERY BEAN

Encyclopedia of the Wheat

 

LUCIA PERILLO

Dona

Chai

Similar Girl

 

ROBERT WRIGLEY

Big Rig Over the Side

A Rumor of Bears

 

JOSEPH MILLAR

Caroling

Fall Night

 

BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG

Beauty and Truth

Torture Boy’s Cradle

 

JENNIFER PERRINE

When You Ask Whether I have Played with Dolls

My First Stripper

 

SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY

What Praise Will Cost

 

BRUCE BOND

Nerval’s Lute

 

ERIN ELIZABETH SMITH

Hands

 

LINDA COOPER

Birthday Cake Calls a Square Dance

 

PAUL GIBBONS

Gregor Mendel

 

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

 

M.B. MCLATCHEY

Sanriku

 

Fiction

 

BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS

Mysterious Ways

 

JESS WALTER

Sex Talk

 

ROBERT LOPEZ

Vaya con Heuvos

 

TODD JAMES PIERCE

Celebrity X-Factor

 

George Garret Fiction Award

Nonfiction

 

SHERMAN ALEXIE

My Encounters with the Homeless People of the Pacific Northwest

 

Interview

issue58

Willow Springs 58 features poetry and prose by Sherman Alexie, Jess Walter, Tess Gallagher, Robert Lopez, and more. The issue also includes M.B. McLatchey’s “Sanriku,” winner of the 2006 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, David James Poissant’s “Between the Teeth,” winner of the 2006 George Garrett Fiction Award and an interview with Marilynne Robinson and Beckian Fritz Goldberg.

 

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Willow Springs 59

Willow Springs 59

Spring 2007

Poetry

 

HENRIETTA GOODMAN

Reproduction

 

TANIA RUNYAN

Mary at the Nativity

The Wedding at Cana

 

RUSSELL EDSON

The Virtuoso

The Man Who Would Think of the Universe

 

ALBERTO RIOS

The Sweet Salt Sea

Lunar Eclipse, Arizona, 2004

 

ROBERT BLY

The Rock in Your Shoe

A Man’s Early Life

 

KARYNA MCGLYNN

The Men of Camp Mystic

 

MELISSA KWASNY

My Heart Like an Upside-Down Flame

Sibyl

 

DEAN YOUNG

I Blame You

Open Up

 

LOUIS JENKINS

Law of the Jungle

Versatile Classics

If It Was a Snake

 

MARK HALLIDAY

Room 1491

Confessions to Mary

 

D. NURKSE

Cave Behind the Torrent

 

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Replanting Succulents

On Georgia O’Keefe’s From the Faraway, Nearby

 

Poetry in Translation

 

DAG T. STRAUMSVAG

Debts

 

ROBERT HEDIN

A Quiet Week

 

Fiction

Nonfiction

 

DAVID SHIELDS

DS, from Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

 

AARON REYNOLDS

Realistic

 

Interview

issue59

Willow Springs 59 features poetry, prose, and translation by Tania Runyan, Melissa Kwasny, Dag T. Straumsvag, Sean Lovelace, and more, and interviews with Yusef Komunyakaa and Charles D’Ambrosio.

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Willow Springs 60

Willow Springs 60

Fall 2007

Poetry

 

DAN PINKERTON

Robot Crusades

The Baby is Reading Nietzsche

The Love Robot

Passive Aggressive

 

REBECCA DUNHAM

Catalyst

Vesica Pieces

 

DENVER BUTSON

our names

proposals to end the monotony

 

KARSTEN PIPER

A Window I Thought I’d Shut

 

TODD BOSS

Whales Leave Contrails

My House is Small and Almost

My Son Climbs In

 

BETHANY SCHULTZ

Ambiguous Pronouns

 

THOMAS LUX

How Difficult

Blue Vistas Glued

Peacocks in Twilight

The First Song

 

MARK HALLIDAY

What Won’t Happen in 2037

 

CHARLES JENSEN

Selections from “Safe”

 

MARVIN BELL

Messy

Hard Times for Army Recruiters

 

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

 

KARSTEN PIPER

Her Blue Robes

 

Fiction

 

AURELIE SHEEHAN

Kitchen

Couch

Boots

Cigarette

Story

 

LYDIA MILLET

Love in Infant Monkeys

 

KIM CHINQUEE

In Season

Shots

 

CARA BLUE ADAMS

XXQ

 

 

George Garret Fiction Award

 

MIA HEAVENER

Berry Picking

 

Interview

issue60

Willow Springs 62 features poetry and prose by Dan Pinkerton, Thomas Lux, Aurelie Sheehan, Kim Chinquee, and more. The issue also includes Karsten Piper’s “Her Blue Robes,” winner of the 2007 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Mia Heavener’s “Berry Picking,” winner of the 2007 George Garrett Fiction Award and an interview with Aimee Bender and Robert Wrigley.