Featuring poetry, prose, and translation by Alexandra Teague, Laura Read, Jess Walter, Julialicia Case, Ba Ling, and more. The issue also includes Katherine Conner’s “Percipient,” winner of the 2012 Willow Springs Fiction Prize, and an interview with Tim O’Brien.
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Poetry |
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| Erin Belieu | Perfect |
| Michaela Essl | dear wind for limbs |
| Amorak Huey | The Acrobat Bawls |
| The Strongman Goes Weak in the Knees | |
| The Wife Surprises the Husband on Their Fifteenth Anniversary With a Pair of Tickets to the Matinee Performance of Cirque du So Long | |
| Laura Kasischke | The Drinker |
| The First Trumpet | |
| The Option | |
| Melissa Kwasny | The Phenomenology of Fire |
| Pictograph: Avalanche Mouth | |
| Laurie Lamon | Pain Thinks of Beauty |
| Pain Thinks of Grief | |
| Amy Miller | Lady’s-Slipper |
| Kathryn Nuernberger | The Saint-Girl Takes In Strays |
| The Book of Knowledge, the Experienced Farrier, &C. (1793)as the Best of All Possible Worlds | |
| Christina Olson | Shackleton Thanks Elephant Island |
| Laura Read | People Don’t Die of It Anymore |
| When You Have Lived a Long Time in One Place | |
| Bureau | |
| Alexandra Teague | Reclusion: Or, Sarah Winchester Responds to a Fellow Recluse |
Translation |
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| Ba Ling | Bellboys |
| Translated from Chinese by Liang Yujing | |
Fiction |
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| Roxane Gay | Through the Womb |
| Miranda McLeod | Mrs. Schafer Gets Fit |
| Jess Walter | Eating Human Flesh |
Nonfiction |
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| Julialicia Case | Growing Like Houses |
| Diana Joseph | Is Hating Scott Walker a Cure for Postpartum Depression? |
Willow Springs Fiction Prize |
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| Katherine Conner | Percipient |
| A Conversation with Tim O’Brien | |
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