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

Issue 70

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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