Willow Springs 61

Willow Springs 61

Spring 2008

Poetry

 

DENVER BUTSON

[I dreamt I drove up]

[the waiters are all old and tired]

Passive Aggressive

 

KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN

Mosquito Truck

 

JIM DANIELS

Hey

Mega Everything

 

ARDEN ELI HILL

Incidents on The Immaculate

Uncle’s House

 

KEETJE KUIPERS

4th of July

Oregon Spring

 

LISA PIERCE

How I Learned Spanish

Dispatch from Simultaneous Swim Lessons

 

RAY AMOROSI

In Praise of Tomatoes

In Praise of My Nose

In Praise of You

 

ERICA MCLNINCH

Backgammon with a Wolf at the Window

 

PAUL GUEST

My Past

 

BETH ANN FENNELLY

Colorplate 14

 

ANGELA SORBY

Six Degrees of Separation

 

AMY SCHRADER

The Snow-Wrangler

 

MOLLY FISK

Double Solitaire

 

JOHN HODGEN

Upon Reading that Tatiana Yakovleva, Mayakovsky’s Lover Separated from Him by the

Stalin Purges, Had Married and Was Four Months Pregnant when Mayakovsky

Killed Himself  


Upon Reading a Poem Entitled “Upon Seeing a Former Lover Pull Up Next to Me

at the Intersection of Metaphysics Lane and Memorial Drive”

 

RICHARD LEHNERT

To the Next One Like Me

 

KRISTEN GRAVITTE

Lazarus

 

Poetry in Translation

 

TOMAZ ŠALAMUN

Field

 

ANA JELNIKAR (translation by JOSHUA BECKMEN)

+++

 

Fiction

 

DEREK WHITE

The Scarab and the Burning Bush

 

BLAKE BUTLER

Exponential

 

ADRIANNE HARUN

Catch, Release

 

Nonfiction

 

DIANA JOSEPH

The Devil I Know Is the Man Upstairs

 

Interview

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Willow Springs 61 features poetry, prose, and translation by Blake Butler, John Hodgen, Diana Joseph, Tomaž Šalamun, and more, and interviews with Marvin Bell and Stuart Dybek.

Willow Springs 72

Willow Springs 72

Fall 2013

Poetry

 

KIM ADDONIZIO

Guitar Strings

Postmodern Romance: Internet Dating

Open Mic

 

WARREN BROMLEY-VOGEL

A Prayer

 

DENVER BUTSON

Accordions

Per Agreement

Daughters

Charades

if the scarecrow weren’t a scarecrow

far enough away to be called elsewhere

 

NICOLE COOLEY

H1N1 Doll

The Pregnant Doll

Bye-Lo Baby, Patent Applied for, Stamped in Black Ink on Her Chest

Two-Faced Doll, Germany, c. 1890

Frozen Charlottes Found in the Excavation of the Muni Metro

 

SARA HENNING

How We Love

 

NORA HICKEY

Shelves Laid Bare

 

KATE LEBO

The Substance of Things Hoped For

 

CATE MARVIN

 An Etiquette for Eyes

 

MARK NEELY

[more and more]

 

KEITH RATZLAFF

Autumn in New York

 

GINNY WIEHARDT

Migration

The Clan

 

Fiction

 

MAXIM LOSKUTOFF

Prey

 

AURELIE SHEEHAN

T-shirt

Bratz Doll

Plastic Bits

Shoes

Television

Suntan Lotion

 

Willow Springs Fiction Prize

Interview

issue72

Willow Springs 72 features poetry and prose by Kim Addonizio, Denver Butson, Nicole Cooley, Aurelie Sheehan, and more. This issue also includes “The Man with the Nightmare Gun,” by Robert Long Foreman, the winner of the 2013 Willow Springs Fiction Prize, and interviews with Steve Almond and Susan Orlean.

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Willow Springs 73

Willow Springs 73

Spring 2014

Poetry

 

MONICA BURCHFIELD

Jerilyn Keeps Busy

 

RYAN HHIBBETT

Meditations

 

TONY HOAGLAND

A Walk in the Park

Insulin

 

W. TODD KANEKO

Be More Like Sputnik Monroe

Long Live the King of Hearts

 

LIZ KAY

Gretel Introduces Herself

The Witch Heats the Oven

Correction—The Witch Has Vision

Legacy—The Witch Claims a Daughter

 

GARY COPELAND LILLEY

A Proper Elegy for My Father

Tobacco Road

 

MARTY MCCONNELL

The Fidelity of Seeking

The Word of the Day is “Prophecy”

 

JOSEPH MILLAR

1972

Next to Godliness

Have an Axis 2

 

CARRIE SHIPERS

How Long This Drought Will Last

 

KENNY TANEMURA

Lunch Poem

 

Fiction

 

KAREN WUNSCH

Candy Apple Red

 

Nonfiction

Interview

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Willow Springs 73 features poetry and prose by Liz Kay, Gary Copeland Lilley, Joseph Millar, Stacey Richter, and more, and interviews with Major Jackson and Joyce Carol Oates.

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Willow Springs 63

Willow Springs 63

Spring 2009

Poetry

 

CHARD DENIORD

The Way They Were Lowing

 

KIM ADDONIZIO

U Long-Distance

Forms of Love

 

T PAISLEY REKDAL

Homage for Levis

The Site

Famous Song

 

RAY AMOROSI

In Praise of Nothing to Write On

In Praise of No Fear

 

DORIANNE LAUX

S. Sgt. Metz

 

TIMOTHY KELLY

Broken Spoke

 

JILLIAN WEISE

Summer Vacation

 

STAN SANVEL RUBIN

Another Damned Cat Poem

 

RACHEL MEHL

For Julia, Who Loves Horses

 

SEAN PATRICK HILL

The Last Frontier is Not in Alaska

 

DARLENE PEGAN

The Names

 

Fiction

 

ROBERT LOPEZ

Uniforms

 

MATHEW CASHION

Last Words of the Holy Ghost

 

JOSEPH SALVATORE

Reduction

 

Translation

 

DAG T. STRAUMSVAG

        June

        Karl

 

Interview

issue63

Willow Springs 63 features poetry, prose, and translation by Kim Addonizio, Ray Amorosi, Robert Lopez, Dag T. Straumsvåg, and more, and interviews with Lynn Emanuel and Thomas Lynch.

Willow Springs 62

Willow Springs 62

Fall 2008

Poetry

 

MICHAEL HOMOLKA

Better Hands

 

TONY HOAGLAND

Western Movie Poem

Honest Love

 

MELISSA KWASNY

Tag-End

Delight

Almost Ice

 

SARA JOHNSON

Hunting

 

ELIZABETH AUSTEN

Her, at Two

For Lost Sainthood

What We Would Forget

 

MICHELE GLAZER

I Didn't Think Much About What It Was

All the Holes in the Bird Blind Say

Libretto di Gianni Gibellini

 

JEANNIE HALL GAILEY

Risking Our Lives

 

B.J Best

Baltimore Orioles

 

JEFFREY SKINNER

Dostoevsky

 

NANCY KASSELL

Ground

 

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Wine

 

DALE KUSHNER

From the Diaries of Marilyn Monroe: Arthur

 

Fiction

 

LUCAS SOUTHWORTH

The Safest Place You’ve Ever Been

 

SARAH BORDEN WARECK

The Keeper

Nonfiction

 

STACIA SAINT OWENS

        Temporary Classroom

 

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

 

JARED WALLS

        Wrong Map

 

George Garrett Fiction Award

 

MICHAEL J. DAVIS 

        Gravity

 

Interview

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Willow Springs 62 features poetry and prose by Tony Hoagland, Melissa Kwasny, Lucas Southworth, Stacia Saint Owens, and more. The issue also includes Jared Walls’ “Wrong Map,” winner of the 2008 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Michael J. Davis’ “Gravity,” winner of the 2008 George Garrett Fiction Award and an interview with Tess Gallagher and David Shields.

Willow Springs 70

Willow Springs 70

Spring 2012

Poetry

 

ERIN BELIEU

Perfect

 

MICHAELA ESSL

dear wind for limbs

 

AMORAK HUEY

The Acrobat Bawls

The Strongman Goes Weak in the Knees

The Wife Surprises the Husband on Their Fifteenth Anniversary with a Pair

         of Tickets to the Matinee Performance of Cirque du So Long

 

LAURA KASISCHKE

The Drinker

The First Trumpet

The Option

 

MELISSA KWASNY

The Phenomenology of Fire

 

LAURIE LAMON

Pain Thinks of Beauty

Pain Thinks of Grief

 

AMY MILLER

Lady’s-Slipper

 

KATHRYN NUERNBERGER

The Saint-Girl Takes In Strays

The Book of Knowledge, the Experienced Farrier, &C. (1793)as the Best of All Possible Worlds

 

CHRISTINA OLSON

Shackleton Thanks Elephant Island

 

LAURA READ

When You Have Lived a Long Time in One Place

Bureau

People Don't Die Anymore

 

ALEXANDRA TEAGUE

Reclusion: Or, Sarah Winchester Responds to a Fellow Recluse

Translation

 

BA LING (translated by LIANG YUJING)

Bellboys

 

Fiction

 

ROXANE GAY

Through the Womb

 

MIRANDA MCLEOD

Mrs. Schafer Gets Fit

 

JESS WALTER

Eating Human Flesh

 

Nonfiction

 

JULIALICIA CASE

Growing Like Houses

 

DIANA JOSEPH

Is Hating Scott Walker a Cure for Postpartum Depression?

 

Willow Springs Fiction Prize

KATHERINE CONNER
        Percipient

Interviews

issue70

Willow Springs 70 features poetry, prose, and translation by Alexandra Teague, Laura Read, Jess Walter, Julialicia Case, Ba Ling, and more. The issue also includes Katherine Conner’s “Percipient,” winner of the 2012 Willow Springs Fiction Prize, and an interview with Tim O’Brien.

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Willow Springs 71

Willow Springs 71

Spring 2013

issue71

Willow Springs 71 features poetry and prose by Alexandra Teague, Charlie Clark, Ann Pancake, Robert Lopez, and more, and interviews with Erin Belieu and Blake Butler.

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Willow Springs 87

Willow Springs 87

Spring 2021

Poetry

 

JOHN-MICHAEL BLOOMQUIST

Nova Venezia

 

THOMAS BRUSH

Unfinished

 

TODD DAVIS

Possum

 

CHARLES DOUTHAT

Chapel and Olive

 

MICHELLE BONCZEK EVORY

Thunder Basin Preserve, Wyoming

 

MEGAN GANNON

Dispatch Four Days After the Funeral

Dispatch from Simultaneous Swim Lessons

 

ROBERT HEDIN

Houses of the Bible Belt

 

HEIKKI HUOTARI

Heatseek 2

Have an Axis 2

 

MITCHELL JACOBS

Three Ways into Hurt

 

PETER KRUMBACH

Nostalgia

The World According to the World

 

AMBER MCBRIDE

Southern Gothic (For the Black Boy)

Desecrate

 

JOHN MCCARTHY

Elegy Ending with an Apology

 

KEVIN MCILVOY

April Ice

At 70

 

LAUREN MOSELEY

The Great Chain of Being

 

LISA NORRIS

Driving on the Eastern Shore, I Say

 

MELISSA OLIVEIRA

November Haibun

 

ALLAN PETERSON

Marksman

Anxiety

 

J. P. WHITE

Elegy for a Buckeye

Seabooted

 

ALPAY ULKU

Spending the Night at the Blue Mountain Service Plaza on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, I Dreamt I

Drove into a Tractor Trailer Just Past Mile Marker 202

Ice Walking, Columbia Ice Field, Jasper National Park, Alberta

 

CONNOR YECK

Neutron Bomb // Or, Hopper's Sun on Prospect Street (Gloucester, Massachusetts)

 

Fiction

 

A. D. NAUMAN

Lookers

 

HANNAH PASS

Monster

 

D. J. THIELKE

Along for the Ride

 

Nonfiction

 

EVAN JOSEPH MASSEY

The Lucky Ones

 

ALEXANDRA TEAGUE

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

 

Interview

87 Front Cover

Willow Springs 87 features prose and poetry from Amber McBride, A. D. Nauman, J. P. White, Allan Peterson, Jericho Brown, and more.

Willow Springs 86

Willow Springs 86

Spring 2020

Poetry

 

LISA ANGELELLA

Leavening

 

SARAH BATES

Natural Histories

 

MIRANDE BISSELL

Gretel’s God

 

DMITRY BLIZNIUK / SERGEY GERASIMOV

The Bones of the Landscape

 

JOSHUA BOETTIGER

All the Familiar Woes

 

BRUCE BOND

The Lost Language 1

The Lost Language 4

The Lost Language 22

 

ADAM CHILIES

Homing

 

MAGGIE GRABER

House Rules

 

MATHEW LIPPMAN

Flew It All Around

 

J. ESTANISLAO LOPEZ

The Burning Field

 

JOHN PAUL MARTINEZ

Elegy on the Wisconsin

 

KEVIN MCLLVOY

Awake, thinking himself asleep,  

In spider season

 

OWEN MCLEOD

This Bag Is Not a Toy

 

JOSEPH MILLAR

Late July 

Affluence

 

JEN HAHN NIELSEN

How I Explain to My Daughter That the Divorce Is Not Her Fault

 

JOHN A. NIEVES

Aubade with a Line from Tom Waits

 

JESSICA LEE RICHARDSON

Horse Collar 

Grease

 

KATHRYN SMITH

Ode to Super Friends and Nature Television

 

LAUREN W. WESTERFIELD

Snow

 

JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS

Seed

 

Fiction

 

JENNIFER CHRISTMAN

Elodie

 

MATTHEW FIANDER

 The Starland Box

 

ANDREW FURMAN

Dani Bloom

 

Nonfiction

Interview

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Willow Springs 86 features prose and poetry from Joseph Millar, Ramona Ausubel, Jessica Lee Richardson, Andrew Furman, Lawrence Lenhart, and more.

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Willow Springs 85

Willow Springs 85

Winter 2020

Poetry

 

ROY BENTLEY

A Human Heart, Left Aboard, Sends Airplane Back to Where it StarteD

Fallout, or the Mother Tongue of Pinocchio Was the Wind Through the Trees

 

JACKSON BURGESS

Medicine

 

DAVID ALLAN CATES

Luna

Why I Don’t Need Adrenaline-Rush Recreational Activities

 

DANTE DI STEFANO

Glad Maths

Gathering Paradise

 

ADAM GELLINGS

Deleted Scenes

 

JAMES GRABILL

Where Van Gogh Painted with Fire

 

MICHAEL HETTICH

I Wake

The Hive

 

ALLISON HRABAN

I Make Soup All Winter

 

MICHAEL HURLEY

Barnum Ventures Out

 

ANDREA JURJEVIC

Nastic Movements

Department of Dream Justice

Nevada Augury

 

MICHAEL MCGRIFF

That the Deer Tick Is the Pilot Light of the Universe

4 AM

 

FRANCISCO LAYNA RANZ/JP ALLEN

I Fold My Jacket with Utmost Care 

 

AMY SEYFRIED

For Light, I Open

 

OJO TAIYE

Grief, Too, Is the Bobcat Grin of the Living

 

COREY THRASHER

Aniology

 

M. A. VIZSOLYI

Moonlight Vision

 

FRITZ WARD

Place-Setting

 

Fiction

 

BRIDGET ADAMS

Mushroom Boys

 

ERIC ALTEMUS

Three Finnish Scenes

 

RYAN CANNON

Nothing You Can't Leave Behind

 

WILLIAM WALKER

State of the System

 

Nonfiction

Interview

85

Willow Springs 85 features prose and poetry from Roy Bentley, Michael Hettich, Andrea Jurjevic, Michael McGriff, Ira Sukrungruang, and more.

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