Willow Springs 56
Fall 2005
Poetry
AARON DEROSA
Sparrow Ethics
JIM DANIELS
Brain Freeze
MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
Cofee and Profiteroles at the Nth Cafe
BETH COOLEY
Nativity
GEORGE LOONEY
The Burning Wheel Put Out by Its Own Turning
MIGUEL MURPHY
Monologue of the Last Fear
Cherries
DANIELLE HANSON
The bird eats a building
MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN
Hand
Lucky Dreams
BETH GYLYS
Evensong
ROBERT GREGORY
No Rain
RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE
Loot
FRED YANNANTUONO
The Return of Madame La Hoya
MARCO A DOMÍNGUEZ
Quiet Swell
JOANNA OSBORNE
Jackson Pollock’s “Moby Dick” Digested Through Four Stomachs of a Cow
ED SKOOG
Test Plate Displaying 12 Different Patterns, circa 1830, Eduard Honoré Manufactory
A.J. RATHBUN
The Heart’s France Is Not Always Equal
SAMANTHA MINEO MYERS
After Giving Up Meat
D.S. BUTTERWORTH
Ore
DABID LEE
Cold—Star—Wind Sonata
Fiction
STACEY RICHTER
The Land of Pain
KIRSTEN SUNDBERG LUNSTRUM
The Drowning
GEORGE MCCORMIK
DC
Nonfiction
DAVID MCGLYNN
Climb
Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award
DAVID MCCOMBS
Rosetti in 1869
George Garret Fiction Award
EMILY M. DANFORTH
Everything That Much Harder
AWP Intro Award Winners
Poetry
MICHELE BATTISTE
Like a Sine Curve
Fiction
JOHN T. MEDEIROS
from Self, Divided
Interview
Willow Springs 56 features poetry and prose by Stacey Richter, David McGlynn, Jim Daniels, Danielle Hanson, and more. The issue also includes David McCombs’ “Rosetti in 1869,” winner of the 2005 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Emily M. Danforth’s “Everything That Much Harder,” winner of the 2005 George Garrett Fiction Award and an interview with Gerald Stern and Lawrence Sutin.