Willow Springs 68

Willow Springs 68 features poetry and prose by Ray Amorosi, Matthew Dickman, Nance Van Winckel, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, and more. The issue also includes Sarah Hulse’s “Sine Die,” winner of the 2011 Willow Springs Fiction Prize, and an interview with Richard Russo.

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Willow Springs 67

Spring 2011

Poetry

ALEXANDER J. ALLISON

live vibrations

TAYLOR COLLIER

In a Goat Pasture Just Outside of Cross Cut, Texas

LAARRY CRIST

At the bus stop in passing

MIKE DOCKINS

The Rubble

LAURIE LAMON

Pain Thinks of Still Life

Babble

This Poem Doesn't Care That It Isn't a Sonnet

Pain Thinks of Black

ADRIAN LOUIS

Ghost Road

Sunset at the Indian Cemetery

MARJORIE MANWARING

You Imagine a Version of Yourself

HUGH MARTIN

Friday Night, FOB Cobra

Observation Post

JAY NEBEL

Disclaimer

Loud Mouth

MATTHEW NIENOW

On the Day You Were Born

KATHRYN NUERNBERGER

A Nice Girl

ELEANOR PAYNTER

Appartati

CURTIS PERDUE

Return to

A Silence

JOHN SANDOVAL

Albuquerque

MOLLY TENEBAUM

Bloomery

Fiction

BUZZ MAURO

Fractions

NATALIE SYPOLT

Lettuce

JESS WALTER

Please

Nonfiction

DAWN RUFFEL

The Tea Set From Japan

The Prayer Book

The Bride's Bible

The Teacup

The Florsheim Dog

Tranquil Ease

Garnet Earrings

Interview

PRAGEETA SHARMA

LYDIA MILLET

Willow Springs 67 features poetry and prose by Laurie Lamon, Hugh Martin, Jess Walter, Dawn Raffel, and more. and interviews with Prageeta Sharma and Lydia Millet.

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Willow Springs 66

Willow Springs 66

Fall 2010

Poetry

COLLEEN ABEL

The American Sign Language Translation of "I Have a Dream"

FRANCESCA BELL

On the Way to Chevron, My Father Tries to Save My Life

PHIL ESTES

My Ars Nature Poetica

The Miracle of Chile

KATHY FAGAN

Self-Portrait as Sycamore in Copper & Pearl

KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN

A Great Physicist Recalls the Manhattan Project

ALBERT GARCIA

Dig

LIZ KAY

Six Minutes

JOSEPH MILLAR

Sentimental

Night Watchman

JONATHAN PAPAS

Mare Fecunditatis

DOREN ROBBINS

Henry Miller at the Library

Front to Back

KATRINA ROBERTS

Improbable Wings

MICHAEL SALCMAN

Zamboni

AMY SCHRADER

--Hello, Blizzard

Ode to Sasquatch

JOE WILKINS

Theodicy Envoy

Fiction

KATIE CORTESE

International Cooking for Beginners

BRANDI REISSENWEBER

What We're Sure Of

Nonfiction

KERRY MUIR

The Bridge

Willow Springs Fiction Prize

STACIA SAINT OWENS

Color by Numbers

Interview

JESS WALTER

Willow Springs 66 features poetry and prose by Kathy Fagan, Joseph Millar, Katie Cortese, Kerry Muir, and more. The issue also includes Stacia Saint Owens' "Color By Number," winner of the 2010 Willow Springs Fiction Prize, and an interview with Jess Walter.

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Willow Springs 65

Willow Springs 65

Spring 2010

Poetry

RAY AMOROSI

In Praise of Eagles

Horses

BRAD JOHNSON

High Above the Houses

LAURA KASISCHKE

Near-misses

MELISSA KWASNY

Pictograph: Bizarre Anthropormorph, Often with Interior Body Decorations

Petroglyph: The Bird Site, Maze District

My First Ermine

GARY COPELAND LILLEY

Colonel Waddell on the Morning of November 10, 1898

The Fire

Fourth and Harnett Streets

The Exodus

JEFF MANN

Sunday Morning Biscuits

TOD MARSHALL

Vocation

Ferrets in the House

Leaving the Big Hole

Orthodoxy

MATT MAUCH

Ode to James Wright

ROBERT NAZARENE

Davy

CHISTROPHER ROETHLE

Snapshots: Kilimanjaro Album

DAVID WOJAHN

Ending with a Quotation from Walden

Quicken

ROBERT WRIGLEY

They Are Bidden

Memoir

Fiction

MATT BELL

The Receiving Tower

THOMAS COOPER

Hellion

Nonfiction

DIANA JOSEPH

Bullets Going Through Objects in Slow Motion

Interview

CHARLES BAXTER

FADY JOUDAH

Willow Spring 65 features poetry and prose by Ray Amorosi, Melissa Kwasny, Matt Bell, Diana Joseph, and more, and interviews with Charles Baxter and Fady Joudah.

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Willow Springs 64

Willow Springs 64

Fall 2009

Poetry

CLAY MATTHEWS

Homeowner's Insurance

Job Talk

JOHN HODGEN

Witness

TODD BOSS

Still We Like to Imagine

RAY AMOROSI

What the Sea Grass Told Me

In the Fog in Massachusetts

STEPHANIE LENOX

Strategic Plan for Mortals

SUSAN J. ALLSPAW

Crown of Bedrest

DENVER BUTSON

drowning ghazal [I am absent]

drowning ghazal [then to return]

JEREMY VOIGT

John Brown's Hanging

DEAN YOUNG

Anti-Ambition

JOSIAH BANCROFT

The Canyon Hotel

WESTON CUTTER

Lucinda Williams vs. Weinerdogs

Fiction

KIM CHINQUEE

Labor

The Waves Were Low

Goose

STACIA SAINT OWENS

Viv Thraves Goes Missing

MARKO CONSTANS

Milk

Lists

BLAKE BUTLER

Hair Loop

Word Count

Willow Springs Fiction Prize

HEATHER BRITTIAN BERGSTROM

Slackwater

Interview

MARK CHILDRESS

DORIANNE LAUX

Willow Springs 64 features poetry and prose by Stacia Saint Owen, Blake Butler, Ray Amorosi, John Hodgens, and more. The issues also includes Heather Brittain Bergstrom's "Slackwater," winner of the 2009 Willow Springs Fiction Prize, and an interview with Mark Childress and Dorianne Laux.

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Willow Springs 69

Willow Springs 69

Spring 2012

Poetry

LAURI ANDERSON

On His Latest Dive, My Husband Catches a Humboldt Squid On Camera

MARY LOU BUSCHI

The Physics of Falling

S. WHITNEY HOLMES

Quantum Leap

ADAM HOULE

To the Bed Bug

AUSTIN LAGRONE

Tableau with Rockets Redglare

Foreseeable

JOSEPH MILLAR

Day of the Dead

Nativity

CARL PHILLIPS

And It Begins Like This

KATHLENE POSTMA

He Was A Hell of A Cat

STEVE PRICE

Bravissimo

PAISLEY REKDA

W.C. Fields Takes A Walk

Rosenthal Glove Mold, 1920

KRISTIN ROBERTSON

For Red-Winged Blackbirds

MICHAEL MARTIN SHEA

How to Say, “I Was Scared of Fire as a Kid”

CRAIG VAN ROOYEN

Yosemite Falls

Fiction

DIANE LEFER

Sin-Tra-La!

SCOTT OAK

The Fluency of Dreams

ERIC SCOT TRYON

Monopoly Money

MATTHEW VOLLMER

Dog Lover

Nonfiction

STEVE ADAMS

Balloons

MELISSA LEAVITT

Show Off

Interview

MATTHEW DICKMAN

ROBERT LOPEZ

Willow Springs 69 features poetry and prose by Austin LaGrone, Paisley Rekdal, Matthew Vollmer, Melissa Leavitt, and more, and interviews with Matthew Dickman and Robert Lopez.

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Willow Springs 58

Willow Springs 58

Fall 2006

Poetry

TESS GALAGHER

Water Walking

JEFFERY BEAN

Encyclopedia of the Wheat

LUCIA PERILLO

Dona

Chai

Similar Girl

ROBERT WRIGLEY

Big Rig Over the Side

A Rumor of Bears

JOSEPH MILLAR

Caroling

Fall Night

BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG

Beauty and Truth

Torture Boy’s Cradle

JENNIFER PERRINE

When You Ask Whether I have Played with Dolls

My First Stripper

SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY

What Praise Will Cost

BRUCE BOND

Nerval’s Lute

ERIN ELIZABETH SMITH

Hands

LINDA COOPER

Birthday Cake Calls a Square Dance

PAUL GIBBONS

Gregor Mendel

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

M.B. MCLATCHEY

Sanriku

Fiction

BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS

Mysterious Ways

JESS WALTER

Sex Talk

ROBERT LOPEZ

Vaya con Heuvos

TODD JAMES PIERCE

Celebrity X-Factor

George Garret Fiction Award

DAVID JAMES POISSANT

Between the Teeth

Nonfiction

SHERMAN ALEXIE

My Encounters with the Homeless People of the Pacific Northwest

Interview

BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG

MARYLYNNE ROBINSON

Willow Springs 58 features poetry and prose by Sherman Alexie, Jess Walter, Tess Gallagher, Robert Lopez, and more. The issue also includes M.B. McLatchey’s “Sanriku,” winner of the 2006 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, David James Poissant’s “Between the Teeth,” winner of the 2006 George Garrett Fiction Award and an interview with Marilynne Robinson and Beckian Fritz Goldberg.

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Willow Springs 59

Willow Springs 59

Spring 2007

Poetry

HENRIETTA GOODMAN

Reproduction

TANIA RUNYAN

Mary at the Nativity

The Wedding at Cana

RUSSELL EDSON

The Virtuoso

The Man Who Would Think of the Universe

ALBERTO RIOS

The Sweet Salt Sea

Lunar Eclipse, Arizona, 2004

ROBERT BLY

The Rock in Your Shoe

A Man’s Early Life

KARYNA MCGLYNN

The Men of Camp Mystic

MELISSA KWASNY

My Heart Like an Upside-Down Flame

Sibyl

DEAN YOUNG

I Blame You

Open Up

LOUIS JENKINS

Law of the Jungle

Versatile Classics

If It Was a Snake

MARK HALLIDAY

Room 1491

Confessions to Mary

D. NURKSE

Cave Behind the Torrent

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Replanting Succulents

On Georgia O’Keefe’s From the Faraway, Nearby

Poetry in Translation

DAG T. STRAUMSVAG

Debts

ROBERT HEDIN

A Quiet Week

Fiction

SEAN LOVELACE

Andy Warhol and the Art of the Bullet

JOHN SULLIVAN

COATS

Nonfiction

DAVID SHIELDS

DS, from Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

AARON REYNOLDS

Realistic

Interview

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA

CHARLES D’AMBROSIO

Willow Springs 59 features poetry, prose, and translation by Tania Runyan, Melissa Kwasny, Dag T. Straumsvag, Sean Lovelace, and more, and interviews with Yusef Komunyakaa and Charles D’Ambrosio.

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Willow Springs 60

Willow Springs 60

Fall 2007

Poetry

DAN PINKERTON

Robot Crusades

The Baby is Reading Nietzsche

The Love Robot

Passive Aggressive

REBECCA DUNHAM

Catalyst

Vesica Pieces

DENVER BUTSON

our names

proposals to end the monotony

KARSTEN PIPER

A Window I Thought I’d Shut

TODD BOSS

Whales Leave Contrails

My House is Small and Almost

My Son Climbs In

BETHANY SCHULTZ

Ambiguous Pronouns

THOMAS LUX

How Difficult

Blue Vistas Glued

Peacocks in Twilight

The First Song

MARK HALLIDAY

What Won’t Happen in 2037

CHARLES JENSEN

Selections from “Safe”

MARVIN BELL

Messy

Hard Times for Army Recruiters

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

KARSTEN PIPER

Her Blue Robes

Fiction

LYDIA MILLET

Love in Infant Monkeys

KIM CHINQUEE

In Season

Shots

CARA BLUE ADAMS

XXQ

George Garret Fiction Award

MIA HEAVENER

Berry Picking

Interview

AIMEE BENDER

ROBERT WRIGLEY

Willow Springs 62 features poetry and prose by Dan Pinkerton, Thomas Lux, Aurelie Sheehan, Kim Chinquee, and more. The issue also includes Karsten Piper’s “Her Blue Robes,” winner of the 2007 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Mia Heavener’s “Berry Picking,” winner of the 2007 George Garrett Fiction Award and an interview with Aimee Bender and Robert Wrigley.

Willow Springs 61

Spring 2008

Poetry

DENVER BUTSON

[I dreamt I drove up]

[the waiters are all old and tired]

Passive Aggressive

KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN

Mosquito Truck

JIM DANIELS

Hey

Mega Everything

ARDEN ELI HILL

Incidents on The Immaculate

Uncle’s House

KEETJE KUIPERS

4th of July

Oregon Spring

LISA PIERCE

How I Learned Spanish

Dispatch from Simultaneous Swim Lessons

RAY AMOROSI

In Praise of Tomatoes

In Praise of My Nose

In Praise of You

ERICA MCLNINCH

Backgammon with a Wolf at the Window

PAUL GUEST

My Past

BETH ANN FENNELLY

Colorplate 14

ANGELA SORBY

Six Degrees of Separation

AMY SCHRADER

The Snow-Wrangler

MOLLY FISK

Double Solitaire

JOHN HODGEN

Upon Reading that Tatiana Yakovleva, Mayakovsky’s Lover Separated from Him by the

Stalin Purges, Had Married and Was Four Months Pregnant when Mayakovsky

Killed Himself

Upon Reading a Poem Entitled “Upon Seeing a Former Lover Pull Up Next to Me

at the Intersection of Metaphysics Lane and Memorial Drive”

RICHARD LEHNERT

To the Next One Like Me

KRISTEN GRAVITTE

Lazarus

Poetry in Translation

TOMAZ ŠALAMUN

Field

ANA JELNIKAR (translation by JOSHUA BECKMEN)

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Fiction

DEREK WHITE

The Scarab and the Burning Bush

BLAKE BUTLER

Exponential

ADRIANNE HARUN

Catch, Release

Nonfiction

DIANA JOSEPH

The Devil I Know Is the Man Upstairs

Interview

MARVIN BELL

STUART DYBEK

Willow Springs 61 features poetry, prose, and translation by Blake Butler, John Hodgen, Diana Joseph, Tomaž Šalamun, and more, and interviews with Marvin Bell and Stuart Dybek.