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
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.
