Featuring 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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Poetry |
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| 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 |
Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award |
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| Margaret Lloyd | Red Dress |
Willow Springs Poetry Award |
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| Gwyn McVay | In the Dirt |
Interview |
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| Tod Marshall with Nick Twemlow | A Talk with Christopher Howell |
Poetry in Translation |
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| Sergey Gandlevsky | Elegy |
| translated by Philip Metres | |
| Thomas Bernhard | Come under the tree, there the dead |
| The night crumples on gates in old walls | |
| translated by James Reidel | |
| Ingeborg Bachmann | One kind of loss |
| translated by James Reidel | |
| Philippe Jaccottet | The Secret |
| translated by Amy Lemmon | |
| Dante Alighieri | The Inferno: Canto V |
| translated by Seth Zimmerman | |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | Postmark: Ragaz, 24 August 1926 |
| translated by Steven Lautermilch | |
Fiction |
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| Jonathan Johnson | Driving Plow |
Willow Springs Fiction Award |
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| Allison Green | Half-Moon Scar |
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