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 Fiction 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
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.
