Willow Springs 38

June 1996

Poetry

JOHN HAINES

Picture for a Breakfast Room 
Similitude

HUGH OGDEN

The Interval

MICHAEL STEIN

Gothic Woods

ELIZABETH MCLAGAN

Worked Loose by Wind
Winter Stars in a Summer Sunrise

JOSEPH GREEN

The Catch

J. CAILIN OAKES

Baseball
Flag
CHRIS KENNEDY
No Wonder

LESLEY DAUER

Home

CHRISTOPHER HOWELL

Approaching the Blind Date’s Door
Everything

CARLOS REYES

Straw Man

BRUCE GUERNSEY

The Sculptor

SUE WHEELER

Nonsense

RICK ALLEY

I Could Say the Mayfly’s
The Fish Breaking

PATRICIA HENLEY

Mining for Clarity

MARK IRWIN

Flame

JOSHUA MCKINNEY

Traces
Metaphysical

ALBERT GOLDBARTH

Three Days: Three Sections
Next
Some Secret

DOUG MARX

Letters to Han-Shan
To the Skull above my Bookshelf

ROBERT CLINTON

The Giantess

ROBERT HACKETT

My Morning Tour as a Pharaoh 
Almost Cider Time  

WALTER BARGEN

The Invention of Flight

KEVIN MILLER

Four Promises 

ROBERT HILL LONG

How Forgetting Words in Late Winter

Fiction

JONATHAN JOHNSON

Driving Plow

Poetry in Translation

SERGEY GANDLEVSKY (translated by PHILLIP METRES)

Elegy  

THOMAS BERNHARD (translated by JAMES REIDEL

Come under the tree, there the dead 
The night crumples on gates in old walls  

INGEBORG BACHMANN (translated by JAMES REIDEL)

One kind of loss 

PHILLIPE JACCOTTET (translated by AMY LEMMON

The Secret 

DANTE ALIGHIERI (translated by SETH ZIMMERMAN

The Inferno: Canto V 

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

Willow Springs Fiction Award

ALLISON GREEN

Half-Moon Scar
Willow Springs 38

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.

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