Featuring poetry, prose, and translation by Mary Quade, D. Nurske, Jonathan Johnson, Richard Spillman, and more. The issue also includes Linda Malnack’s “Dog Days, Autumn Scorn,” winner of the 2000 Willow Springs Poetry Award, Chris Alan Miller’s “Mesmerize Me,” winner of the 2000 Willow Springs Fiction Award.

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Poetry |
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Mary Quade | Holly Hobby Dolls |
Gerry LaFemina | Night Ending with the Sleep of Drunks and Penitents |
Catherine Staples | Waking |
Candance Black | Where Blood Collects |
Gary Short | Command |
Alice Derry | Deposition |
David Dodd Lee | Talking About Snow All Night |
Jonathan Johnson | Centripetal |
Paulann Petersen | In Her Palm, Perfection |
David Roderick | The Curlers at Dusk |
Chris Dempsey | Controlled Burn |
James Grinwis | Medusa Disrobes |
Obsession of Many | |
David Citino | Four Drown in Pool |
Henry Carlile | Andrew |
Bruce Snider | The Fat Sister Speaks |
Michael Heffernan | Blue |
The Garden God’s Removal | |
Michael Cadnum | Skins |
Julianna Baggott | Discussing Sorrow with Jesus |
Mother as Judas | |
Tom Crawford | Through a Dog’s Eyes |
D. Nurske | A Night in the Men’s Shelter |
In the King’s Garden | |
Amy Newman | In the Earliest of Morning |
Philip Tobin | The Rain Sonata |
William Kloefkorn | Instrumental |
James Grabill | Where Did You Say the Breaking Light Heals? |
Alive | |
Poetry in Translation |
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Paul Celan | Years from You to Me |
(trans. Shawn Sturgeon) | |
Sándor Csoóori | The World’s Monuments |
(trans. Len Roberts) | |
Fiction |
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Jonathan Penner | This Is My Voice |
Richard Spillman | Rain Forest Crunch |
Essays |
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Yesho Atil | Shaving Grandmother |
Rob Tanner | Fashionable Upstarts and the Etiquette of Cool |
Review |
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Aimee LaBrie | Clifford’s Blues |
Willow Springs Poetry Award |
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Linda Malnack | Dog Days, Autumn |
Scorn | |
Willow Springs Fiction Award |
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Chris Alan Miller | Mesmerize Me |