Willard and Maple: Lit Mag Reviewed
Willard and Maple is the product of Champlain College in Vermont. Literary and Fine Arts, Perfect Bound, This last issue weighed in at a hefty 230 pages. Some of my favorite pieces in there were “Testing” by Vermont SLAM champion (now, I know what you’re thinking when you see SLAM, but think more Billy Collins, writing that holds its own on a page) Geof Hewitt, “Late Summer Dew” by Justin Perreault and John Grey’s “To the Old Men in Harry’s Diner” with some also fine work by Gary Nowacki, Robert Cooperman, and, uh, Zebulon Huset. Their art section also stands out with some very fine photography. Overall it’s a good buy. There’s enough to keep you happily reading throughout many line waits, commercial breaks, bus rides, flights or lunch breaks that, though there are some definite space-fillers, you can flip past them to another enjoyable piece. However, they don’t even have a website yet, tsk tsk. Their submission info: (also see their listing in the ever-valuable Poet’s Market)
3-5 poems or one short story per submission, between 9/1 and 5/1, mail to the address:
Willard and Maple; 13 South Willard St.;Freeman 302, Box 34; Burlington, VT 05401
August 14th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
I’m stunned! And honored. Many thanks, -Geof
October 29th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Thanks very much for the warm words. Would greatly appreciate correcting the name - it is Gary Nowacki, not Greg Nowacki.
November 7th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Fixed, sorry about that, don’t understand how I did it. Really great stuff though. Do you have any poems coming out in journals soon that we should be keeping an eye out for?
November 30th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Thanks so much again for the positive remarks. I’m in the process of doing some submissions to both Willard & Maple and to some other literary magazines and will keep you posted. - Gary