Willow Springs 72 features fiction and poetry by Aurelie Sheehan, Keith Ratzlaff, Kim Addonizio, and Nicole Cooley. In an interview, Steve Almond discusses the artist-publisher relationship: "When you write something accomplished enough that somebody will buy it, that's an important and amazing accomplishment. But in the euphoria of that—what I tended to overlook, anyway—is this unnatural arrangement, the artist in partnership with the corporation." In the issue's second interview, Susan Orlean talks about the sense of "otherness" that drives her work: "The emotional challenge of being a stranger and an outsider seems to bring something out in me, and it's that I've got to be a quick study. Nobody likes being the outsider, but being in that position seems to spur me."
Willow Springs 72 features fiction and poetry by Aurelie Sheehan, Keith Ratzlaff, Kim Addonizio, and Nicole Cooley. In an interview, Steve Almond discusses the artist-publisher relationship: "When you write something accomplished enough that somebody will buy it, that's an important and amazing accomplishment. But in the euphoria of that—what I tended to overlook, anyway—is this unnatural arrangement, the artist in partnership with the corporation." In the issue's second interview, Susan Orlean talks about the sense of "otherness" that drives her work: "The emotional challenge of being a stranger and an outsider seems to bring something out in me, and it's that I've got to be a quick study. Nobody likes being the outsider, but being in that position seems to spur me."