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
Fiction
BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS
Mysterious Ways
JESS WALTER
Sex Talk
TODD JAMES PIERCE
Celebrity X-Factor
Nonfiction
SHERMAN ALEXIE
Celebrity X-Factor
Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award
M.B. MCLATCHEY
Sanriku
George Garrett Fiction Award
Interview
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.
