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
Fiction
JONATHAN JOHNSON
Driving Plow
Willow Springs Fiction Award
ALLISON GREEN
Half-Moon Scar
Interview
CHRISTOPHER HOWELL
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.
Where Language Lives: Notes on Translation (Essay)
BLAGA DIMITROVA (translated by JOHN BALABAN and ELENA HRISTOVA)
Who Takes Care of the Blind Stork?
Lullaby For My Mother
SWEGEY GANDLEVSKY (translated by PHILLIP METRES)
Untitled
VINCIUS DE MORAES (translated by THOMAS DORSETT and MOYSES PURISCH)
Dead Can Sonnet
INGEBORG BACHMANN (translated by THOMAS DORSETT)
Paris
Translations by SAM HAMILL
Five Haiku from the Japanese
SU DONG-PO (translated by YUN WANG)
He Xin Lang (To the Bridegroom)
PABLO NERUDA (translated by NANCY ANCROM)
Hymn and Return
HAN SHAN (translated by PETER STAMBLER)
Judging a Scroll by its Ribbons
YANNIS RITSOS (translated by MARTIN MCKINSEY)
Selections from Ticks of the Clock
SA’ADI YOUSSEF (translated by KHALED MATTAWA)
On the Red Sea
HASIM SHAFIQ (translated by KHALED MATTAWA)
The First House
JULES SUPERVIELLE (translated by GEOFFREY GARDNER)
Untitled
PHILIPPE SOUPAULT (translated by TOM HIBBARD)
Little Daily Phantoms
OSCAR VLADISLAS DE LUBICZ MILOSZ (translated by TOD MARSHALL)
Autumn Song
The Bridge
LUCRETIUS (Translated by JONATHHAN SPIEGEL and JEAN BERRETT)
from De Rerum Natura, Book II
Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award
MARRY ANN SAMYN
Omitting the Heart
Essay
TOD MARSHALL
Our Daily Bread: Some Thoughts on Simone Weil
Fiction
BRAD BARKLEY
Clown Alley
Willow Springs Fiction Award
ROBERT HENRY BENNETT
Outside Sylvie City
Willow Springs 36 features poetry, prose, and translation by Jay Ladin, Mark Irwin, Brad Barkley, Jack Myers, and more. The issue also includes Mary Ann Samyn’s “Omitting the Heart,” winner of the 1995 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Robert Harry Bennett’s “Outside Sylvie City,” winner of the 1995 Willow Springs Fiction Award.