Willow Springs 33

Willow Springs 33

Winter 1994

Poetry

 

ASTRID HJERTENÆS ANDERSEN (translated by AINA GERNER-MATHISEN and SUZANNE BACHNER)

Winter sine Anno

 

ALBERT GOLDBARTH

The Glimpse of Flabbergassment  

Fraud  

The Professor of Strangeness Out for a Walk

 

SÁNDOR KÁNYÁDI (translated by BRUCE BERLIND and MÁRIA KORÖSY)

Mane and Skull  

Bell Inscription

 

PETER MARCUS

Not Knowing What Will Heal Him  

El Mundo del Teror  

El Mundo del Oro

 

KHALED MATTAWA

Careine Sloth Song  

For Etel Adnan

 

WESLEY MCNAIR

Young Man Going Uphill with a Bird

 

SUZANNE PAOLA

Glass

 

LI PO (translated by KATIE PRICE)

Calling on a Taoist Priest in Tai-T’ien Mountain but Failing to See Him

 

DAVID ROMTVEDT

Spring Cleaning

 

DANIEL JAMES SUNDAHL

Summer Work, 1968

 

ALISON SWAN

If I Could Keep, I Would, He Says

 

Fiction

 

MICHAEL FONTANA

The Dead of Winter

 

JAN STUCKI

Pleats

Art

 

LYNN BROFSKY

Black and White Oil Paintings

AWP Intro Award Winners

 

SUSAN E. DUNN

My Mother’s Story

 

HILARY SELDEN ILLICK

Out of Body

 

JOHN LATTA

A Summer Night with Thunder

 

JEFF NEWELL

The End of an Era

 

BECKY RODIA

Cole Slaw

 

LINDA TAGGART

Sestina in Photographs

 

LAURA E. WEXLER

Freeing Mumia to Free Themselves: One Group’s Struggle for a Pennsylvania Death Row Prisoner

 

issue33

Willow Springs 33 features poetry, prose, and translation by Albert Goldbarth, Sándor Kányádi, Jan Stucki, Khaled Mattawa, and more, and featuring art from Lynn Brofsky.

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Willow Springs 32

Willow Springs 32

Summer 1993

Poetry

 

RICK ALLEY

Exemplary Life Above Ground

 

JAN BAILEY

Custody

 

CHRISTIANNE BALK

You Say You Love How Unexpected, Open Fields

 

D. S. BUTTERWORTH

In This Room

 

JOHN DONOGHUE

Eel    

Positive

 

PATRICIA GOEDICKE

The Adventure 

Wild Card

 

MARK HALPERIN

Calendar Thunderhead

 

ELIZABETH KRISCHNER

The Call

 

VIRGIL MAZILESCU (translated by THOMAS C. CARLSON and DUMITRU RADU POPA)

opinions about guillaume  

the end of the history lesson

 

HERMINE MEINHARD

Guatemala

 

DAVID RIGSBEE

Only Heaven

 

JUDITH SKILLMAN

In a Mild Autumn

 

BRUCE WEIGL

Meditation on Melville Ave.

Rib

Fiction

 

ROGER HART

Deep Down

 

ROBIN HEMLEY

The Big Ear

Art

 

JUDITH SCHAECHTER

Stained Glass

Essay

 

KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE

The Rogue River (Winter)

issue32

Willow Springs 32 features poetry and prose by Patricia Goedicke, Robin Hemley, Kathleen Dean Moore, John Donoghue, and more, and featuring art from Judith Schaechter.

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Willow Springs 31

Willow Springs 31

Winter 1993

Poetry

 

BRUCE BARTON

1968

 

GERALD CABLE

Camp Job

 

CYNIE CORY

There Is a Thing Called

 

SHARON DOUBIAGO

Body

 

CHRIS FORHAN

But Look Where Sadly the Poor Wretch Comes Reading

 

STUART FRIEBERT

Go-Behind

 

CHRISTOPHER HOWELL

Someone Else

 

PETER MARCUS

What Ripens Quickly

 

MIQUEL MARTI I POL (translated by WAYNE COX and LOURDES MANYE I MARTI)

White on White

This Future  

Alone and Silent

 

LUCIA MARIA PERILLO

Boot Camp

 

BRETT RALPH

Tree Limbs Letting Go of Snow

 

CHARLIE SMITH

Kiss of the Moon  

Off Season Repairs  

The Children’s House

 

ANTHONY SOBIN

Beast

 

DABNEY STUART

Figure on the Edge

 

SALLY THOMAS

Grandmother Rising

AWP Intro Award Winners

 

CATHY EISENHOWER

Waiting in the Car for My Father at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube

 

J. B. HOOVER

About Inge

 

JOHN LANDRETTI

Card Tricks  

 

ANN-BRITT M. MALDEN

Cry of the Black Crow and I’m the Glitter Easy  

 

HEATHER MARING

My Name is Campaspe  

 

GIGI MARINO

Fire  

 

GEORGIA SINE

Death of a Biology Teacher

 

Art

 

PATRICK DOUGHERTY

Fiber Installations

Interview

Tod Marshall and Greg Dunne: A Talk with Robert Hass

issue31

Willow Springs 31 features poetry and prose by Christopher Howell, Charlie Smith, Peter Marcus, and more, and featuring art from Patrick Dougherty and an interview with Robert Hass.

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Willow Springs 30

Willow Springs 30

Summer 1992

Poetry

 

LIZ BRIXIUS

The Floating World  

Romeo, Romeo

 

MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE

Basswood Leaf Falling

 

MICHAEL CADNUM

The First Man to Live a Thousand Years

 

GEORGE EKLUND

Market Street  

Morgan’s Pockets

 

AARON FISCHER

Dead Weight

 

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

Cafe Paradiso

A Temptation in the Wilderness

 

MARY KARR

Getting Ready for the Garbage Man   

Donna Giovanni’s Failure

 

EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT

Still Life

 

JOANNE LOWERY

Poems Where the Deer Sleep

 

PAUL NELSON

Returning the Box

 

ALLAN PETERSON

Dangerous Help  

Trouble with Illusion: The Great Zelmo in the E.R.

 

SU DONG-PO (translated by YUN WANG)

Ding Feng Bo (Calming the Wind and Waves)  

Qian Diao (The Front Tune)

 

MARY SWANDER

Early Frost

Fiction

 

ALISON BAKER

Field Notes

 

PHILLIP BROOKS

Vigilance!

 

KATHRYN HUNT

Bone River   

 

ALBERTO RIOS

Champagne Regions   

 

NICK SPRUANCE

The Last Couple on the Dance Floor

 

Art

 

DEBORAH DEICHLER

Paints and Pastels

 

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Willow Springs 30 features poetry, prose, and translation by Mary Karr, Allan Peterson, Alison Baker, Nick Spruance, and more, and featuring art from Deborah Deichler.

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Willow Springs 29

Willow Springs 29

Winter 1992

Poetry

 

PAULA CLOSSON BUCK

The Man at Pensione Marta Looks at His Eye   

From a Porthole

 

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

ah

 

CURTIS DERRICK

How the Garden Roots Inside Us

 

LYNN DOMINA

Eulogy for a Suicide

 

PATRICIA GOEDICKE

Where There’s a Roadblock

 

LUCINDA GREY

Sábado de Gloria

 

CHRISTOPHER HOWELL

The Bride of Long Division   

The Hermit’s Childhood

 

RINEHARDT Z. LINMARK

Day I: A Portrait of the Poet, Small-kid Time

 

DAVID RIGSBEE

Almost You

 

PAULETTE ROESKE

The Ecstasy of St. Teresa

 

TOMAZ ŠALAMUN (translated by SONJA KRAVANJA)

White Ithaca  

Clumsy Guys

 

MARTIN SCOTT

The Mechanical Billboard

 

PEGGY SHUMAKER

Milagros

 

JASON STRANGE

Voice Lessons

 

SALLY THOMAS

Child in Trunk 

Subway

Fiction

 

A. MANETTE ANSAY

Memory

 

PATRICIA BRUBAKER

Whiskey

 

MICHAEL CADNUM

Killing Jar  

 

BARBRA CHEPAITIS

Correspondence with the Living and the Dead

 

Nonfiction

 

CHRIS ANDERSON

On Screens

 

PHILLIP GARRISON

Waiting for the Earth to Turn Over

 

Art

VICTORIA ADAMS

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Willow Springs 29 features poetry, prose, and translation by Charles Bukowski, Christopher Howell, Michael Cadnum, Chris Anderson, and more, as well as featuring art from Victoria Adams.

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Willow Springs 28

Willow Springs 28

Summer 1991

Poetry

 

ALKAIOS (translated by SAM HAMILL)

Alkaios

 

LINDA ANDREWS

The True Story of the Bird Women

 

ROBERT CLINTON

The Two Birds   

The Tithe   

The Corn Doll   

A Pattern of Authority

 

CID CORMAN

A Suite of Six

 

GARY DUEHR

Richness, Goodness  

November

 

ANGEL GONZALEZ (translated by STEVEN FORD BROWN and GUTIERREZ REVUELTA)

Human Geography

The Defeated One   

The Days Were Like That

 

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

Requiem  

The Music of Forgiveness

 

RON HOUCHIN

The Deadly Mantis

 

LISEL MUELLER

Insomnia  

Statues

 

AMY PENCE

Hostages

 

DEBORAH WOODARD

from Kore   

Helltown

Fiction

 

A. MANETTE ANSAY

One Small Thing

 

GARY FINCKE

Callback

 

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL

Ice

 

Nonfiction

 

PHILLIP GARRISON

Three Days in the Mexican Highlands

 

TOM HANSEN

The Heart Stuck In Its Stutter Of Yes: A Review of Lisel Mueller’s Waving from Shore   

 

NAOMI SHIHAD NYE

Commerce

 

Art

GHITA HARDIMON

issue28

Willow Springs 28 features poetry, prose, and translation by Robert Clinton, Ron Houchin, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Philip Garrison, and more, and featuring art from Ghita Hardimon.

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Willow Springs 27

Willow Springs 27

Winter 1991

Poetry

 

MICHAEL ATKINSON

Teaching Pigs to Pray

 

ANGELA BALL

Keats in Rome  

A New Exile Talks of His Country

 

MICHAEL CADNUM

Web  

Nine-Month Drought

 

CHRISTOPHER DAVIS

In Effigy

 

DIANE GLANCY

Hard to Give Up  

An Anchor in the Basis of the Mind

 

CHRISTOPHER HOWELL

Refusing to Rhyme

Everyday Dramatics: An Historical Tale   

Out of the Body

 

ROLF JACOBSEN (translated by ROBERT HEDIN)

Antenna-Forest  

Aviation

The May Moon  

Metro

 

JOANNE LOWERY

Once I Thought of Rain Twice  

I Imagine a Lady 

It’s Obvious

 

SHU TING (translated by CAROLYN KIZER)

It’s Obvious

 

JUDITH SKILLMAN

Under Zeus

 

WILLIAM STAFFORD

A Proposition  

Influential Writers

 

DABNEY STUART

Holding My Own

Fiction

 

ANDY CROCKETT

The Long Pose

 

CHRIS OFFUTT

Horseweed

Essay

 

TOM HANSEN

The New Old Imagination

Art

NAN PFEIFFER-TOWNER

issue27

Willow Springs 27 features poetry, prose, and translation by Michael Atkinson, Angela Ball, Chris Offutt, Christopher Howell, and more, and featuring art from Nan Pfeiffer-Towner.

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Willow Springs 26

Willow Springs 26

Summer 1990

Poetry

 

MARCK L. BEGGS-UEMA

Grave

 

DANIEL BOURNE

While the Ground is Still Warm

 

JEANNE CLARK

A Day for Fishing  

The House Next Door

 

SILVIA CURBELO

Some Nights You Crank Up the Car Radio and Just Drive.

 

JIM DANIELS

Rip

 

ALICE DERRY

Daughter, My Daughter

 

KAREN DONOVAN

Chemo

 

PATRICIA GOEDICKE

Dandelion

 

JOSEPH GREEN

Surviving Like Dummies

 

JAMES HIETTER

Silence=Death

 

CHRISTOPHER HOWELL

Poem Based on a Chinese Character Meaning “A Fire to Notify Heaven”

 

DONALD JUNKINS

Feverfew, Book-Moth, and Wyrd

 

WALTER MCDONALD

West Fork of the San Juan

 

DONALD REVELL

Mayakovsky Welcomed to America, 1925

 

CARLOS REYES

Mayakovsky Welcomed to America, 1925

 

DAVID RIGSBEE

Mozart

 

JUDITH SKILLMAN

The Flaws of the World   

 

CHARLIE SMITH

Redneck Riviera

The Nightmare

 

JULES SUPERVIELLE (translated by GEOFFREY GARDNER)

Untitled

The House Surrounded

 

ARTHUR VOGELSANG

Drifters   

 

MILDRED WESTON

Iris  

Begging Your Pardon  

 

PETER WILD

Real Success

 

Fiction

 

B. D. LOVE

Shoes for the Dead

 

W. SCOTT OLSEN

Firewood

Essay

 

DOROTHY BARRESI

The Best Accidents of Voice and Grace: A Review of Revell, Upton, Ramke, and Broumas

 

CARRIE BUCHER

The Family Constellation: A Review of Andrea Barrett’s Lucid Stars    

 

SASCHA FEINSTEIN

Urgency and Restraint: The Jazz Poems of William Matthews   

 

LEE UPTON

The Muse of Grief: Reviews of Alan Williamson, Kate Daniels, and Franz Wright

 

Art

Vestiges/Bookworks

Interview

MADELINE DEFREES

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Willow Springs 26 features poetry and prose by Jeanne Clark, Patricia Goedicke, Donald Revell, W. Scott Olsen, and more, and an interview with Madeline DeFrees.

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Willow Springs 40

Willow Springs 40

June 1997

Poetry

 

TIMOTHY KELLY

At Pacific Rim  

Two on a Shaman’s Rattle, Tlingit, UBC Museum of ManTwo on a Shaman’s Rattle, Tlingit,

UBC Museum of Man

 

ANDREA WERBLIN

Saints in the Hedges

 

ELISABETH MURAWSKI

She Looks Everywhere  

The Audience

 

PETER SEARS

Men and Fat  

Shoveling Snow While It Is Still Snowing  

We Talk About You, Death

 

AMY NEWMAN

Sophistry of the Quince Fruit  

September

 

JACK MARTIN

Pinochle

 

JAMES HAUG

The Peace

 

SUSANNE KORT

As I Recollect the July You

 

JOHN GREY

Martha’s Story

 

TONY GARDNER

Restorative Art

 

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

The Heart

Fallen Jerusalem   

Dryad   

Catch Me

 

REX WEST

How Cubism Met the Modern World

 

CINDY BOSLEY

Patience of God

 

MARK BABBINS

Coelacanth

 

STEPHEN R. ROBERTS

On Swimming Pool Maintenance

 

LINDA LEE HARPER

Small Factory

 

THOMAS REITER

The Delivery

 

S. RAMNATH

Excellent Leisure

 

RON MCFARLAND

Sixteen

On the Way to Pierce

 

WILLIAM TREMBLAY

Juniper   

The Sagebrush Hours    

 

CHASE TWICHELL

Minor Problems  

Sanctuary

 

STEPHEN AJAY

The Memory of Spring in Bali   

The Morning Green with Birds    

 

LEN ROBERTS

Double Yolk  

April Storm, Olmstead Street Garden   

 

JESSICA HENRICKSEN

Virginia in the River   

Storm   

 

ELIZABETH MCLAGAN

The House Let Go To Sky

 

Poetry in Translation

 

P. KOBYLARZ (translated by MONIQUE MANOPOULOS)

the ocularist

 

Willow Springs Poetry Award

 

B. T. SHAW

No. 2 Venus

 

Fiction

 

JOHN WORKS

3800 Monterrey

 

ALAN VANNEMAN

Living in the Year of Our Lord 1959, AD

Willow Springs Fiction Award

 

DORIAN GOSSY

Florida Postcards

AWP Intro Award Winners

 

BRENDA MILLER

Needlepoint

 

CATHERINE MENG

Cranes   

 

JENIFER WILOUGHBY

Pretty  

 

LISA BESTEIN

The Death of Sade  

 

DEBRA LASER

The Blue Bowl   

 

ANDER MONSON

Siding  

 

NEIL THORNTON

On the Wrong End of a Cow with a Shovel in My Hand

 

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Willow Springs 40 features poetry, prose, and translation by Chase Twichell, Ron McFarland, Michael Heffernan, Peter Sears, and more. The issue also includes B. T. Shaw’s “No. 2 Venus,” winner of the 1997 Willow Springs Poetry Prize and Dorian Gossy’s “Florida Postcards,” winner of the 1997 Willow Springs Fiction Prize.

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Willow Springs 41

Willow Springs 41

January 1998

Poetry

 

LOUIS JENKINS

The Telephone

Coronado  

A Miracle

 

CHARLES GOODRICH

Turkey Vulture Talking

 

CAROLYN REYNOLDS MILLER

The Singing Lesson

 

GIBBONS RUARK

Autumn Elegy

 

ATHENA KILDEGAARG

El Higado  

Mother’s Prayer

 

JACK HEFLIN

Claryville, Missouri, Third Sundays in May

 

CINDY BOSLEY

The Way to the Clinic

 

DAVID LEE

Old

 

STEPHANIE DICKINSON

Corn Goddess

 

MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN

Periscope  

Startled Awake Once More in the City of Dreams  

The Elephant in Winter

 

LESLEY DAUER

Hide and Seek

 

JAMES GRABILL

With the Jade

 

DENNIS SALEH

De Chirico, Noon of the Angels 

 

LAURIE BLAUNDER

Gestures of the Flesh, Doctor F.’s Assistant

 

JERRY MCGUIRE

The Vampire Poet  

Soh-Cah-Toa Talks Back

 

BERRY SILESKY

Prayer, With Kings

 

RICHARD HARRIS

Breakfast Before a Slow Fire

 

JOHN BRADLEY

Henry Ford Hospital, 1932, Frida Kahlo

 

KIMBALL MCKAY-BROOK

Can I Talk?  

Waking at Midnight

 

GORDON MASSMAN

499   

 

ALAN DENIRO

John Clare Eats an Orange  

 

VICTORIA WYTTENBERG

Leaves Going To Yellow 

Letter from Somewhere in the South Pacific, 1944 

 

RONALD WALLACE

The Calling  

Thin Ice   

 

GRETCHEN DIEMER

The Static of Interrupted Voices  

Voices Scattered Across Water   

 

ANDREA CARTER

Clear Out

 

Poetry in Translation

 

FREDERICO GARCIA LORCA (translated by DAN MACLSAAC)

Pools

 

ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK (translated by STEVEN FORD BROWN)

Fragments To Dominate The Silence  

Exile  

 

P. KOBYLARZ (translated by MONIQUE MANOPOULOS)

the ocularist

Fiction

 

J. ROBERT LENNON

The Lucite Handbag

 

DEBERA FAWCETT HOPPER

Italia

Nonfiction

 

ANNA COPELAND

Lace Collar: A Memoir in Ten Parts

Review

 

JESSICA MOORE

The Sincere Cafe by Leslee Becker

issue41

Willow Springs 41 features poetry, prose, and translation by Michael Van Walleghen, Louis Jenkins, J. Robert Lennon, Victoria Wyttenberg, and more, and a review by Jessica Moore.

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