Willow Springs: Issue 61
The Crossing Guard by Mel McCuddin
Oil on Canvas
Courtesy of the Artist
Willow Springs 61 Spring 2008

Poetry
Denver Butson [I dreamt I drove up]
PDF format [the waiters are all old and tired]
Passive Aggressive
Kathleen Flenniken PDF format Mosquito Truck
Jim Daniels Hey
PDF format Mega Everything
Arden Eli Hill PDF format Incidents on The Immaculate
Uncle's House
Keetje Kuipers 4th of July
Oregon Spring
Lisa Pierce How I Learned Spanish
Ray Amorosi In Praise of Tomatoes
In Praise of My Nose
In Praise of You
Erica McIninch 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 Seeing a Former Lover Pull Up Next to Me at the Intersection of Metaphysics Lane and Memorial Drive
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
Tomaž Šalamun Field
  (trans. Joshua Beckman, +++
  Ana Jelnikar)
Fiction
Derek White The Scarab and the Burning Bush
Blake Butler PDF format Exponential
Adrianne Harun Catch, Release
Nonfiction
Diana Joseph PDF format The Devil I Know Is the Man Upstairs
Interviews
A Conversation with Marvin Bell
A Conversation with Stuart Dybek