Willow Springs
Fiction, poetry, essays & interviews
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Willow Springs publishes the finest in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as interviews with some of the most notable authors in contemporary literature, including Marilynne Robinson, Stuart Dybek, Aimee Bender, and Robert Bly. Founded in 1977 and published twice yearly,Willow Springs features two interviews per issue, as well as arresting essays, fiction, and poetry by a diverse variety of writers—from the unknown and up and coming, to U.S. Poet Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners. An indispensable resource for writers and readers, Willow Springs engages its audience in an ongoing discussion of art, ideas, and what it means to be human.
In our 30 years of publication, Willow Springs has looked for and published fresh and established voices in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including those of Tobias Wolff, Jorge Luis Borges, Yusef Komunyakaa, Louis Jenkins, Denise Levertov, James Grabill, WS Merwin, William Stafford, Charles Bukowski, Chris Offutt, Robert Olmstead, Michael Martone, Robert Hass, Michael Heffernan, Tomaz Salamun, Bret Lott, Sam Hamill, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alice Derry, Paulann Peterson, Osip Mandelstam, Patricia Henley, Thomas Reiter, Bill Tremblay, Tom Crawford, Mark Halliday, D. Nurkse, Elizabeth Murawski, and hundreds of others from around the world.
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Pages (PDF): 61 (coupled pages)
Publisher: Willow Springs
Purchase includes: PDF
IN THIS ISSUE
Jeffrey Bean
The Voyeur's Gratitude
The Voyeur's Prayers
What the Voyeur Learned
You Don't Love the Voyeur
Eric Greenwell
2,4-D
Robert Gregory
The Changeable Days
Anna Claire Hodge
Optometry Technician in Training
John Hodgen
Jesus Tree
Twenty-two
Melissa Kwasny
Texture of the Soul
Doris Lynch
Harvesting Crows
Christine Robbins
Poisoning rats in the back porch wall
Alexandra Teague
The Tiger Speaks
The Lady Speaks
Pox
Robert Wrigley
Chickadee-Doo-Dah
The Difficulty
Fiction
Kim Addonizio
Intuition
Willow Springs Fiction Prize
Tom Howard
Bandana
Nonfiction
Jules Ohman
Model Girl
Interview
Pages (PDF): 120
Publisher: Willow Springs
Purchase includes: PDF
IN THIS ISSUE
Poetry
Monica Burchfield
Jerilyn Keeps Busy
Ryan Hibbett
Trumpet Vine Meditations
Tony Hoagland
A Walk in the Park
Insulin
W. Todd Kaneko
Be More Like Sputnik Monroe
Long Live the King of Hearts
Gary Copeland Lilley
A Proper Elegy for My Father
Tobacco Road
Marty McConnell
the fidelity of seeking
the word of the day is "prophecy"
Joseph Millar
1972
Next to Godliness
Carrie Shipers
How Long This Drought Will Last
Kenny Tanemura
Lunch Poem
Fiction
Karen Wunsch
Candy Apple Red
Nonfiction
Matthew Gavin Frank
The Putting Down of the Mint Julep
Diana Joseph
Who Will You Be When You Get There?
Stacey Richter
Mrs. Siegel's Rules for Jewish Women
Interview
A Conversation with Major Jackson
A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates
Pages (PDF): 120
Publisher: Willow Springs
Purchase includes: PDF
IN THIS ISSUE
Poetry
Kim Addonizio
Guitar Strings
Postmodern Romance: Internet Dating
Open Mic
Warren Bromley-Vogel
A Prayer
Denver Butson
accordions
per agreement
daughters
charades
if the scarecrow weren't a scarecrow
far enough away to be calledelsewhere
Sara Henning
How We Love
Nora Hickey
Shelves Laid Bare
Kate Lebo
The Substance of Things Hoped For
Cate Marvin
An Etiquette for Eyes
Mark Neely
[more and more]
Keith Ratzlaff
Autumn in New York
Ginny Wiehardt
Migration
The Clan
Fiction
Maxim Loskutoff
Prey
Aurelie Sheehan
T-shirt
Bratz Doll
Plastic Bits
Shoes
Television
Suntan Lotion
Willow Springs Fiction Prize
Robert Long Foreman
The Man with the Nightmare Gun
Interview
A Conversation with Steve Almond
A Conversation with Susan Orlean