Willow Springs 72

Willow Springs 72 features poetry and prose by Kim Addonizio, Denver Butson, Nicole Cooley, Aurelie Sheehan, and more. This issue also includes “The Man with the Nightmare Gun,” by Robert Long Foreman, the winner of the 2013 Willow Springs Fiction Prize, and interviews with Steve Almond and Susan Orlean.

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Willow Springs 73

Spring 2014

Poetry

MONICA BURCHFIELD

Jerilyn Keeps Busy

RYAN HHIBBETT

Meditations

TONY HOAGLAND

A Walk in the Park

Insulin

W. TODD KANEKO

Be More Like Sputnik Monroe

Long Live the King of Hearts

LIZ KAY

Gretel Introduces Herself

The Witch Heats the Oven

Correction—The Witch Has Vision

Legacy—The Witch Claims a Daughter

GARY COPELAND LILLEY

A Proper Elegy for My Father

Tobacco Road

MARTY MCCONNELL

The Fidelity of Seeking

The Word of the Day is “Prophecy”

JOSEPH MILLAR

1972

Next to Godliness

Have an Axis 2

CARRIE SHIPERS

How Long This Drought Will Last

KENNY TANEMURA

Lunch Poem

Fiction

KAREN WUNSCH

Candy Apple Red

Nonfiction

MATHEW GAVIN FRANK

The Putting Down of the Mint Julep

DIANA JOSEPH

Who Will You Be When You Get There?

STACEY RICHTER

Mrs. Siegel’s Rules for Jewish Women

Interview

MAJOR JACKSON

JOYCE CAROL OATES

Willow Springs 73 features poetry and prose by Liz Kay, Gary Copeland Lilley, Joseph Millar, Stacey Richter, and more, and interviews with Major Jackson and Joyce Carol Oates.

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Willow Springs 63

Willow Springs 63

Spring 2009

Poetry

CHARD DENIORD

The Way They Were Lowing

KIM ADDONIZIO

U Long-Distance

Forms of Love

T PAISLEY REKDAL

Homage for Levis

The Site

Famous Song

RAY AMOROSI

In Praise of Nothing to Write On

In Praise of No Fear

DORIANNE LAUX

S. Sgt. Metz

TIMOTHY KELLY

Broken Spoke

JILLIAN WEISE

Summer Vacation

STAN SANVEL RUBIN

Another Damned Cat Poem

RACHEL MEHL

For Julia, Who Loves Horses

SEAN PATRICK HILL

The Last Frontier is Not in Alaska

DARLENE PEGAN

The Names

Fiction

ROBERT LOPEZ

Uniforms

MATHEW CASHION

Last Words of the Holy Ghost

JOSEPH SALVATORE

Reduction

Translation

DAG T. STRAUMSVAG

June

Karl

Interview

LYNN EMANUEL

THOMAS LYNCH

Willow Springs 63 features poetry, prose, and translation by Kim Addonizio, Ray Amorosi, Robert Lopez, Dag T. Straumsvåg, and more, and interviews with Lynn Emanuel and Thomas Lynch.

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Willow Springs 62

Willow Springs 62

Fall 2008

Poetry

MICHAEL HOMOLKA

Better Hands

TONY HOAGLAND

Western Movie Poem

Honest Love

MELISSA KWASNY

Tag-End

Delight

Almost Ice

SARA JOHNSON

Hunting

MICHELE GLAZER

I Didn't Think Much About What It Was

All the Holes in the Bird Blind Say

Libretto di Gianni Gibellini

JEANNIE HALL GAILEY

Risking Our Lives

B.J Best

Baltimore Orioles

JEFFREY SKINNER

Dostoevsky

NANCY KASSELL

Ground

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Wine

DALE KUSHNER

From the Diaries of Marilyn Monroe: Arthur

Fiction

LUCAS SOUTHWORTH

The Safest Place You’ve Ever Been

SARAH BORDEN WARECK

The Keeper

Nonfiction

STACIA SAINT OWENS

Temporary Classroom

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

JARED WALLS

Wrong Map

George Garrett Fiction Award

MICHAEL J. DAVIS

Gravity

Interview

TESS GALLAGHER

DAVID SHIELDS

Willow Springs 62 features poetry and prose by Tony Hoagland, Melissa Kwasny, Lucas Southworth, Stacia Saint Owens, and more. The issue also includes Jared Walls’ “Wrong Map,” winner of the 2008 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Michael J. Davis’ “Gravity,” winner of the 2008 George Garrett Fiction Award and an interview with Tess Gallagher and David Shields.

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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

TIM O’BRIEN

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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Willow Springs 71

Spring 2013

Poetry

JAN BOTTIGLIERI

Icarus Decides

CHARLIE CLARK

Devil’s Materials (Partial List)

Devil Collecting Roadkill

KATHY DAVIS

Freeze

HEATHER HAMILTON

For the Debutante Committee

BOB HICOK

The job

AMELIA MARTENS

Because I Am in the Junkyard

MARGARET MONAHAN

Night Prayer of a Woman Living Alone

ALEXANDRA TEAGUE

Transcontinental

I. Crazy Judah (1859)

II. The Big Four (1862)

III. The Workers (1866)

IV. The Sierras (1867)

V. Sherman’s Peace Council with the Indians (1867)

VI. Ferguson’s Diary (1868)

VII. Hell-on-Wheels (1868)

VIII. Jack Morrow and Friends (1868)

XI. Roving Delia Fish Dance (1869)

X. The Golden Spike, Promontory, Utah (May 10, 1869)

Fiction

ROBERT LOPEZ

The Sexual Ramifications of Coffee

SUSAN MCCARTY

Fellowship

SAM WILSON

Pee Water Springs

Nonfiction

ANN PANCAKE

Our Own Kind

Interview

ERIN BELIEU

BLAKE BUTLER

Willow Springs 71 features poetry and prose by Alexandra Teague, Charlie Clark, Ann Pancake, Robert Lopez, and more, and interviews with Erin Belieu and Blake Butler.

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Willow Springs 87

Willow Springs 87

Spring 2021

Poetry

JOHN-MICHAEL BLOOMQUIST

Nova Venezia

THOMAS BRUSH

Unfinished

TODD DAVIS

Possum

CHARLES DOUTHAT

Chapel and Olive

MICHELLE BONCZEK EVORY

Thunder Basin Preserve, Wyoming

MEGAN GANNON

Dispatch Four Days After the Funeral

Dispatch from Simultaneous Swim Lessons

ROBERT HEDIN

Houses of the Bible Belt

HEIKKI HUOTARI

Heatseek 2

Have an Axis 2

MITCHELL JACOBS

Three Ways into Hurt

PETER KRUMBACH

Nostalgia

The World According to the World

AMBER MCBRIDE

Southern Gothic (For the Black Boy)

Desecrate

JOHN MCCARTHY

Elegy Ending with an Apology

KEVIN MCILVOY

April Ice

At 70

LAUREN MOSELEY

The Great Chain of Being

LISA NORRIS

Driving on the Eastern Shore, I Say

MELISSA OLIVEIRA

November Haibun

Spending the Night at the Blue Mountain Service Plaza on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, I Dreamt I

Drove into a Tractor Trailer Just Past Mile Marker 202

Ice Walking, Columbia Ice Field, Jasper National Park, Alberta

CONNOR YECK

Neutron Bomb // Or, Hopper's Sun on Prospect Street (Gloucester, Massachusetts)

Fiction

A. D. NAUMAN

Lookers

HANNAH PASS

Monster

D. J. THIELKE

Along for the Ride

Nonfiction

EVAN JOSEPH MASSEY

The Lucky Ones

ALEXANDRA TEAGUE

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Interview

JERICHO BROWN

Willow Springs 87 features prose and poetry from Amber McBride, A. D. Nauman, J. P. White, Allan Peterson, Jericho Brown, and more.

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Willow Springs 86

Willow Springs 86

Spring 2020

Poetry

LISA ANGELELLA

Leavening

SARAH BATES

Natural Histories

MIRANDE BISSELL

Gretel’s God

DMITRY BLIZNIUK / SERGEY GERASIMOV

The Bones of the Landscape

JOSHUA BOETTIGER

All the Familiar Woes

BRUCE BOND

The Lost Language 1

The Lost Language 4

The Lost Language 22

ADAM CHILIES

Homing

MAGGIE GRABER

House Rules

MATHEW LIPPMAN

Flew It All Around

J. ESTANISLAO LOPEZ

The Burning Field

JOHN PAUL MARTINEZ

Elegy on the Wisconsin

KEVIN MCLLVOY

Awake, thinking himself asleep,

In spider season

OWEN MCLEOD

This Bag Is Not a Toy

JOSEPH MILLAR

Late July

Affluence

JEN HAHN NIELSEN

How I Explain to My Daughter That the Divorce Is Not Her Fault

JOHN A. NIEVES

Aubade with a Line from Tom Waits

JESSICA LEE RICHARDSON

Horse Collar

Grease

KATHRYN SMITH

Ode to Super Friends and Nature Television

LAUREN W. WESTERFIELD

Snow

JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS

Seed

Fiction

JENNIFER CHRISTMAN

Elodie

MATTHEW FIANDER

The Starland Box

ANDREW FURMAN

Dani Bloom

Nonfiction

LAWRENCE LENHART

A Ferret by Any Other Name

TOM MCCAULEY

Introductory Element Comma Independent Clause: A Study of the Moon and Bees

Interview

RAMONA AUSUBEL

Willow Springs 86 features prose and poetry from Joseph Millar, Ramona Ausubel, Jessica Lee Richardson, Andrew Furman, Lawrence Lenhart, and more.

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Willow Springs 85

Willow Springs 85

Winter 2020

Poetry

ROY BENTLEY

A Human Heart, Left Aboard, Sends Airplane Back to Where it StarteD

Fallout, or the Mother Tongue of Pinocchio Was the Wind Through the Trees

JACKSON BURGESS

Medicine

DAVID ALLAN CATES

Luna

Why I Don’t Need Adrenaline-Rush Recreational Activities

DANTE DI STEFANO

Glad Maths

Gathering Paradise

ADAM GELLINGS

Deleted Scenes

JAMES GRABILL

Where Van Gogh Painted with Fire

MICHAEL HETTICH

I Wake

The Hive

ALLISON HRABAN

I Make Soup All Winter

MICHAEL HURLEY

Barnum Ventures Out

ANDREA JURJEVIC

Nastic Movements

Department of Dream Justice

Nevada Augury

MICHAEL MCGRIFF

That the Deer Tick Is the Pilot Light of the Universe

4 AM

FRANCISCO LAYNA RANZ/JP ALLEN

I Fold My Jacket with Utmost Care

AMY SEYFRIED

For Light, I Open

OJO TAIYE

Grief, Too, Is the Bobcat Grin of the Living

COREY THRASHER

Aniology

M. A. VIZSOLYI

Moonlight Vision

FRITZ WARD

Place-Setting

Fiction

RYAN CANNON

Nothing You Can't Leave Behind

WILLIAM WALKER

State of the System

Nonfiction

IRA SUKRUNGRUANG

Have You Eaten?

Interview

D. NURSKE

Willow Springs 85 features prose and poetry from Roy Bentley, Michael Hettich, Andrea Jurjevic, Michael McGriff, Ira Sukrungruang, and more.

Willow Springs 84

Fall 2019

Poetry

BRUCE BOND

The Lost Language #11

Narcissus in the Underworld #9

#26

#28

#29

MACKENZIE COLE

Faultlines

DARREN C. DEMAREE

If There Is a River, #40 & #41

MAIA ELSNER

Lullaby

ELLA FLORES

Last Universal Offspring (Uncommon)

ARIELLE HEBERT

Land of Plenty

LINDSAY STUART HILL

Funeral for a Water Child

GAIL MARTIN

Switches

What Pain Doesn't Know About Me

T.J. McLEMORE

Parallax

JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS

My Heart is In the Mouth of Another Heart

Suture

Fiction

REBECCA BROWN

The Beanstalk

TIM CONRAD

Land of Opportunity

RITA FEINSTEIN

Suspension

ANDREW GRETES

Mind-Graffiti

DAVID DODD LEE

Hawks

JOHNATHAN ROVNER

Bethany Dreams of Snow

Nonfiction

KRISTEN NOEL KAUFFMAN

Brumation

ANN PANCAKE

Take, Eat

Interview

REBECCA BROWN

Willow Springs 84 features prose and poetry from Bruce Bond, Rebecca Brown, Darren C. Demaree, David Dodd Lee, Ann Pancake, John Sibley Williams, and more.