Willow Springs 97
Spring 2026
Poetry
GRACE BAUER
Against Aphorisms
ROY BENTLEY
The Drudgery of Living in Italics
Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Whatever Wilderness Contained There and Whatever Beasts
BRIAN BUILTA
Battered Love Poem
DANTE DI STEFANO
Dear Faisal
Unhappy National Poetry Month
CAL FREEMAN
A Gold Wing
JOHN GLOWNEY
Smoking with the Old Communists
JESSE GRAVES
Night Owl’s Lament
Why I Haven’t Cleaned the Confetti Coins from Our December Drinks Three Years Ago Out of My Purse
Eclipse
Reasons to Hike and Other Non Sequiturs
Seven Women Treading Water
What We Believed
KARA LEWIS
Whole Cities Fit in My Hand
Bad Creek, Pointe Mouillee, Early December
What I Am and What I Am Not Seeing
CAMERON MCGILL
Siblings
DARREN MORRIS
On the Bridge above the Rail Yards
SUPHIL LEE PARK
Over and Era Breathlessly on the Move
MARCUS SILCOCK
High & Dry
The Key
LINA STOYANOVICH
Antarctica, pt. 2
Dally
Me & Emily
J. P. WHITE
Sub Rosa Inspection
SUNNI BROWN WILKINSON
Like Mink
MELODY WILSON
Imperfect Vessels
Surrealist Prize Winner
Poetry in Translation
HARRY MARTINSON
TRANSLATED BY ROBERT HEDIN
The Cable Ship
WANG FEI (王飞)
TRANSLATED BY YI ZHE
Lantern Man
Prison
ZUO YOU (左右)
TRANSLATED BY YI ZHE
Hear Sounds
Compatriots
Fiction
ROBERT GLICK
Capers of the Girl Moriarties
BRUCE MCKAY
Disc of Silver
NonFiction
JIM DANIELS
Bluetooth
Interview
LEIGH NEWMAN
Willow Springs Issue 97 features prose and poetry from Wasima Khan, Lina Stoyanovich, Cameron McGill, an interview with Leigh Newman, and more!
