Willow Springs 61

Willow Springs 61

Spring 2008

Poetry

 

DENVER BUTSON

[I dreamt I drove up]

[the waiters are all old and tired]

Passive Aggressive

 

KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN

Mosquito Truck

 

JIM DANIELS

Hey

Mega Everything

 

ARDEN ELI HILL

Incidents on The Immaculate

Uncle’s House

 

KEETJE KUIPERS

4th of July

Oregon Spring

 

LISA PIERCE

How I Learned Spanish

Dispatch from Simultaneous Swim Lessons

 

RAY AMOROSI

In Praise of Tomatoes

In Praise of My Nose

In Praise of You

 

ERICA MCLNINCH

Backgammon with a Wolf at the Window

 

PAUL GUEST

My Past

 

BETH ANN FENNELLY

Colorplate 14

 

ANGELA SORBY

Six Degrees of Separation

 

AMY SCHRADER

The Snow-Wrangler

 

MOLLY FISK

Double Solitaire

 

JOHN HODGEN

Upon Reading that Tatiana Yakovleva, Mayakovsky’s Lover Separated from Him by the

Stalin Purges, Had Married and Was Four Months Pregnant when Mayakovsky

Killed Himself  


Upon Reading a Poem Entitled “Upon Seeing a Former Lover Pull Up Next to Me

at the Intersection of Metaphysics Lane and Memorial Drive”

 

RICHARD LEHNERT

To the Next One Like Me

 

KRISTEN GRAVITTE

Lazarus

 

Poetry in Translation

 

TOMAZ ŠALAMUN

Field

 

ANA JELNIKAR (translation by JOSHUA BECKMEN)

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Fiction

 

DEREK WHITE

The Scarab and the Burning Bush

 

BLAKE BUTLER

Exponential

 

ADRIANNE HARUN

Catch, Release

 

Nonfiction

 

DIANA JOSEPH

The Devil I Know Is the Man Upstairs

 

Interview

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Willow Springs 61 features poetry, prose, and translation by Blake Butler, John Hodgen, Diana Joseph, Tomaž Šalamun, and more, and interviews with Marvin Bell and Stuart Dybek.

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