Willow Springs 37
January 1996
Poetry
CLAUDIA KEELAN
Chaff
KIM ADDONIZIO
Near Heron Lake
At Moss Beach
COLLEEN MORTON
Blackbird
NIKKI HERSST
Binoculars on a Tattooed Lady
PHILLIP ST. CLAIR
Into the Cave
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
Cape Cod
DAVID AXELROD
Crossing the Mountains at the New Year
MARINA PILAR GIPPS
Drive
DAVID ROMTVEDT
Planting
ED HAWORTH-HOEPPNER
Bonneville Dam
JOHN PALMER
Goal
JACQUELINE BERGER
In the Frame of the Hillside
MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN
Two Seizures
PETER COOLEY
For Arthur Dimsdale
JAN STREVER
One Foot Planted While the Other One Roams
JACK BARRACK
Digging
TIMOTHY LIU
Across the River
BRAD RICHARD
Clown
Queer Studies
SUSAN EISENBERG
Depression
TAYLOR GRAHAM
J.J.’s Truck Stop
CHRIS FORHAN
Without Presumptions
An Honest Forest
Pine, Pine, Pine
KHALED MATTAWA
I Was Buried In Janzoor
MICHELLE BYRNE
Silence
JAMES FINNEGAN
A Loon Diving
RON JOUCHIN
I Sit at Home Naked
SALLY THOMAS
Love poem, West Memphis
The Last Day
ELIZABETH KIRSCHNER
Lullaby
MEGAN SEXTON
Lastochki
GEORGIA TIFFANY
Playing School
JAMES GRABILL
The Unanswering Will Go Unanswering
Fiction
LESLIE PIETRZYK
My Grandmother’s Rosary
Review
JOSHUA MCKINNEY
Unprepared in Earnest: on Keelan, Shapiro, and Gander
AWP Intro Award Winners
DEBRA DEAKIN
Screech Owl in Symphony
VERNON FOWLKES, JR.
Small Absence
CHRISTIAN ROSENSTOCK
Taking the Life Out
JESSE MILLNER
Hymns
AMY HICKMAN
Cyprus: A Fragment
ERIK SIMON
Waiting for the Deacon
KATHLEEN HEIDEMAN
Van Gogh’s Priest
Willow Springs 37 features poetry and prose by Kim Addonizio, Chris Forhan, James Grabill, Leslie Pietrzyk, and more, and a review by Joshua McKinney.