Jennings, Blair

On next Tuesday, October 20th, multiple-time Willow Springs Magazine contributor and Montana Poet Laureate Melissa Kwasny will be giving a live reading online with previous Willow Springs Magazine Editor-in-Chief Christopher Howell. The reading will begin at 6pm PDT, and can be accessed live via YouTube through the link here. Both authors will be reading from … Read more

Issue 81 Contributor and 2013 Willow Springs Fiction Prize winner Robert Long Foreman has announced Weird Pig, a new fiction book coming out on October 1st. According to the Southeast Missouri State University Press site, “Weird Pig is about Weird Pig, a pig who wants to do right. But doing right isn’t always easy. He … Read more

New from Bruce Bond and Etruscan Press, Scar comes out in October of this year. As Bruce Bond described it in a recent announcement, “This trilogy of sonnet sequences explores trauma, self-alienation, and the power of imaginative life to heal-to reawaken with the past a better understanding of its influence, both conscious and unconscious, to … Read more

Recently, Issue 85 contributor and award-winning Floridian poet Michael Hettich gave a reading on Facebook Live with the Carolina Poets to promote his most recent book of poems: To Start an Orchard (Press 53, 2019). Quoted from the Press 53 website, author Lola Haskins (How Small, Confronting Mourning), writes, “Michael Hettich has written, with extraordinary empathy, a book … Read more