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Journal information: Willow Springs, published twice yearly by Eastern Washington University; manuscripts accepted year-round, but slower response times between July and October; http://willowsprings.ewu.edu.

Wow, excellent stuff in here. The two Tania Runyan poems were by far my favorites. But Alberto Rios, Robert Bly, Dean Young, Russell Edson--you can't go wrong with any of this stuff. I also really liked the Karyna McGlynn poem.

In fiction, I liked John Sullivan's story "Coats", which was very well crafted--almost too much so, with the surprises unfolding right on schedule, but I'm not going to complain about that. And in nonfiction, which I didn't realize wasn't fiction until right now looking in the TOC, I absolutely loved Aaron Reynolds' "Realistic", which was beautiful and sad and is even more beautiful and sad and amazing now that I know it's not fiction. OMG. Oh, and the David Shields nonfiction stuff was really interesting, too.

Overall: wow, great issue.