Willow Springs 38
June 1996
Poetry
JOHN HAINES
Picture for a Breakfast Room
Similitude
HUGH OGDEN
The Interval
MICHAEL STEIN
Gothic Woods
ELIZABETH MCLAGAN
Worked Loose by Wind
Winter Stars in a Summer Sunrise
JOSEPH GREEN
The Catch
J. CAILIN OAKES
Baseball
Flag
CHRIS KENNEDY
No Wonder
LESLEY DAUER
Home
CHRISTOPHER HOWELL
Approaching the Blind Date’s Door
Everything
CARLOS REYES
Straw Man
BRUCE GUERNSEY
The Sculptor
SUE WHEELER
Nonsense
RICK ALLEY
I Could Say the Mayfly’s
The Fish Breaking
PATRICIA HENLEY
Mining for Clarity
MARK IRWIN
Flame
JOSHUA MCKINNEY
Traces
Metaphysical
ALBERT GOLDBARTH
Three Days: Three Sections
Next
Some Secret
DOUG MARX
Letters to Han-Shan
To the Skull above my Bookshelf
ROBERT CLINTON
The Giantess
ROBERT HACKETT
My Morning Tour as a Pharaoh
Almost Cider Time
WALTER BARGEN
The Invention of Flight
KEVIN MILLER
Four Promises
ROBERT HILL LONG
How Forgetting Words in Late Winter
Fiction
JONATHAN JOHNSON
Driving Plow
Poetry in Translation
SERGEY GANDLEVSKY (translated by PHILLIP METRES)
Elegy
THOMAS BERNHARD (translated by JAMES REIDEL)
Come under the tree, there the dead
The night crumples on gates in old walls
INGEBORG BACHMANN (translated by JAMES REIDEL)
One kind of loss
PHILLIPE JACCOTTET (translated by AMY LEMMON)
The Secret
DANTE ALIGHIERI (translated by SETH ZIMMERMAN)
The Inferno: Canto V
RAINER MARIA RILKE (translated by STEVEN LAUTERMILCH)
Postmark: Ragaz, 24 August 1926
Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award
MARGARET LLOYD
Red Dress
Willow Springs Poetry Award
GWYN MCVAY
In the Dirt
Willow Springs Fiction Award
ALLISON GREEN
Half-Moon Scar
Willow Springs 38 features poetry, prose, and translation by Christopher Howell, Jonathan Johnson, Joshua McKinney, and more. The issue also includes Margaret Lloyd’s “Red Dress,” winner of the 1996 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Gwyn McVay’s “In the Dirt,” winner of the 1996 Willow Springs Poetry Award, Allison Green’s “Half-Moon Scar,” winner of the 1996 Willow Springs Fiction Award, and an interview with Christopher Howell.
