Willow Springs 42

Willow Springs 42

June 1998

Poetry

 

FLOYCE ALEXANDER

Peasant: A Triptych

 

RAPHAEL C. ALLISON

The Lime

 

TIM BARNES

The Caves of Joaquin Murietta: Evelyn and Sandalio  

The Storm that Wakes Us

 

HENRY CARLILE

Davanti a la Ruina

 

PHYLLIS K. COLLIER

The Moonframer

 

TOM CRAWFORD

Low IQ

Mother’s Version

 

PHILLIP DACEY

Taking a Shower with Daniel Ellsberg

 

JIM DANIELS

Digger on the Nature Trail

 

J. EUGENE GLORIA

White Blouses

 

ROBERT GREGORY

Diary

Halfway Vigil Poem

 

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL

You Are Born, Everything Changes

 

NORBERT KARPF

Helga on a Stool

 

JESSICA LAMB

The Invalid’s Wife

Gift

 

DAVID LEE

Conversation Overheard from a Back Booth  

Song E. U. Washburn Heard while Tending Roses

 

JOEL LONG

Brass Buttons  

The Iris Cut and Buried in a Hat Box

 

GEORGE LOONEY

The Body of a Lover is Colloquial at Best  

Even when Birds are Quiet

 

PHYLLIS MANNAN

Three Dreams of the Everlasting

 

GORDON MASSMAN

225

 

SIMONE MUENCH

Loneliness

 

SHERRON NORLEN

Polyphemus  

 

D. NURSKE

Pennies for Flies  

 

VERONICA PATTERSON

She Was  

 

FRANCES RICHEY

Bones  

 

MAXINE SCATES

The Current  

 

DIANNE WILLIAMS STEPP

Beach Seining Tuna Woleai Atoll

 

Poetry in Translation

 

DMITRY BOBYSHEV (translated by MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN)

The Beasts of St. Anthony

 

ANDREW BRETON (translated by SIMONE MUENCH)

The Dim Lantern  

 

LUIS CERNUDA (translated by CARLOS REYES)

I’ve Come to See  

 

JOSE EMILIO PACHECO (translated by SIMON WALSH)

The Octopus   

 

CESAR VALLEJO (translated by REBECCA SEIFERLE)

Our Bread  

The Black Heralds  

Distant Footsteps

Fiction

 

MICHAEL HOBERMAN

Still the Jews

 

WILLIAM OREM

The Spiritual Exercises

Willow Springs Fiction Award

 

LESLIE LEEK

Fishing Killdeer Creek

Review

 

DOUG MARX

Five Women Poets

issue42

Willow Springs 42 features poetry, prose, and translation by Tom Crawford, Jesse Lee Kercheval, David Lee, George Looney, and more. The issue also includes Leslie Leek’s “Fishing Killdeer Creek,” winner of the 1998 Willow Springs Fiction Prize, and a review by Doug Marx.

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Willow Springs 43

Willow Springs 43

January 1999

Poetry

 

CAROLYN KOO

Rough Breathing Grave, Smooth Breathing Grave  

Sight Reading

 

VERN RUTSALA

What We Owe

 

DC BERRY

Tug of War With a Fence

 

DONALD JUNKINS

Finding Melville’s Grave

 

ROBERT GREGORY

Interstate   This is How

 

JOHN KULM

Farm Town

 

PETER PEREIRA

Crossing the Pear

 

MOLLY TENENBAUM

Honor Thy Livelong Toaster

 

BILL TREMBLAY

Auto-Surgery

 

CINDY BOSLEY

The Baby

The Preacher’s Daughter Lives Next Door

 

GEORGE HARVILLA

Mapping Mars (Pathfinder’s Response)

 

ALICE DERRY

For Morris Graves from a Novitiate

 

BILL YAKE

Saying Grace

 

ALAN MAY

Jimmy

 

LOUIS JENKINS

Wind in the Trees  

Fire Danger

Fiction

 

PETE FROMM

Cranes

 

KARENMARY PENN

The Ninth Race

 

WENDY COUNSIL

Night Juggling

 

Reviews

 

LEX RUNCIMAN

Just Above Water by Louis Jenkins

 

CAROL SKLENICKA

The Wars We Took to Vietnam by Milton J. Bates

 

AWP Intro Award Winners

 

ELIZABETH PORTO

Airports

 

DAMION MICHAEL HIGBIE

The Killings

 

LISA NAPOLI

The Bathing Ceremony  

 

LISA MAY GILES

Jewel Island   

 

ERIN M. BOUTIN

Finding Jin-Jin

 

issue43

Willow Springs 43 features poetry and prose by Robert Gregory, Peter Pereira, Carolyn Koo, Wendy Counsil, and more, and reviews from Lex Runciman and Carol Sklenicka.

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Willow Springs 44

Willow Springs 44

June 1999

Poetry

 

JENNIFER OAKES

The Allocations of Sound  

The Listener

 

TOM CRAWFORD

Trees

Love

 

PATRICIA GOEDICKE

Lion  

Soul of the Instrument  

Alma de Casa

 

ROBERT HACKETT

In a Wenatcheee Way

 

PAISLEY REKDAL

Night Sweeper

 

MICHAEL CADNUM

Winter in an Adopted City

 

JAMES GRABILL

Birth Ocean  

What Shared Roads Glow With Private Afternoon Light?

 

MELISSA A. HUSEMAN

Sweet Maniacal Orchids

 

WILLIAM RYAN

A Word for Word

 

LAURIE LAMON

Pain Thinks of Helen

 

J. P. WHITE

Cold Beer

 

DENNIS SALEH

Endymion

 

A. ROBBINS

22 January   

Untitled

 

TOM WAYMAN

For Bill Sutherland  

Fear Eclipsed by Distance

 

DENNIS HELD

Inventory

 

WILLARD GREENWOOD

The Grandiose Manner of Electricians

 

MARK SULLIVAN

Slag

 

ROBERT GREGORY

Why It Gets Dark   

In the Century of Belly  

 

JOSEPH MILLAR

Spanish Blues   

 

MARTHA ZWEIG

Facetious  

Atmospherics  

 

RICH IVES

The Other Woman   

The Moment of Impact 

 

TOMAS O'LEARY

Hands Without Pockets  

The Cosmic Pundits Praise You Utterly

 

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

 

ELLEN ANDOLSEK

p.m.

 

Fiction

 

JEANNE LUTZ

Have This Wish

 

RUSS FRANKLIN

Gunchers

 

STEPHEN  SUND

Roomates

 

George Garret Fiction Award

 

E. W. BEALS

Picking

 

Translation

 

GIL JOUANARD (translated by CARLOS REYES)

Center of Gravity  

Appearing Suddenly Out of Nowhere

 

JOSE KOZER (translated by ORLANDO RICARDO MENES)

Kafka  

I’ve Come to Call Thirteen Men  

 

EDVARD KOCBEK (translated by SONJA KRAVANJA)

Sentence

 

Review

MATHEW SPAUR
        More Vodou, Please

issue44

Willow Springs 44 features poetry, prose, and translation by Patricia Goedicke, Robert Gregory, Jeanne Lutz, and more. The issue also includes Ellen Andolsek’s “p.m.,” winner of the 1999 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, E.W. Beals’s “Picking,” winner of the 1999 George Garrett Fiction Award and a review by Matthew Spaur.

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Willow Springs 45

Willow Springs 45

January 2000

Poetry

 

ALLISON EIR JENKS

A Place We Briefly Lived  

In Search of a Brother

 

CHRISTOPHER BRISSON

The Morning of Violent Necessity  

 

LYNNE BURRIS BUTLER

The Drowned Girl

 

RICK BURSKY

The Physics of What Happens

 

ALLAN PETERSON

Visiting Bolivia

 

KIMBALL MACKAY-BROOK

After Winter, Winter Stays On

 

WILLIAM KLOEFKORN

After the Reading, Early December  

Highlights

 

ATHENA O. KILDEGAARD

Aria

 

MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN

Ego

 

GEORGE LOONEY

Anything but Indifference and Wolves

 

MATT YURDANA

Like Giacometti

 

ABIGAIL HOWELL

Don’t Say Nigger

 

ROBERT GREGORY

Suspira

 

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

A Sudden Shower  

The Flying Fuck

 

CAROLYN L. WRIGHT

My Last Night in Bahia

 

ELIOT KAHLIL WILSON

Blank Verse for the Leaving Season

Fiction

 

GREGORY SPATZ

Zigzag Cabinet

 

ANN JOSLIN WILLIAMS

The Matter of Dawn

Review

 

LEX RUNCIMAN

On Coleridge, Romanticism, and Biography

 

Translation

 

IVAN TABAU (translated by CARLOSE REYES)

The Ivan Tubau Collection

 

AWP Intro Award Winners

 

ABBE L. HEPLER

Reflections on the Day I Lost My Card

 

VERONICA REYES

El Diablo    

 

QUO VADIS GEX-BREAUX

Elegy for Marian Rita  

 

MARY MCNULTY

A Girl, Her Bicycle, and Her Daddy

issue45

Willow Springs 45 features poetry, prose, and translation by Ann Joslin Williams, Greg Spatz, Michael Heffernan, Robert Gregory, Rick Bursky, and more.

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Willow Springs 46

Willow Springs 46

June 2000

Poetry

 

MARY QUADE

Holly Hobby Dolls

 

GERRY LAFEMINA

Night Ending with the Sleep of Drunks and Penitents

 

CATHERINE STAPLES

Waking

 

CANDANCE BLACK

Where Blood Collects

 

GARY SHORT

Command

 

ALICE DERRY

Deposition

 

DAVID DODD LEE

Talking About Snow All Night

 

JONATHAN JOHNSON

Centripetal

 

PAULANN PETERSEN

In Her Palm, Perfection

 

DAVID RODERICK

The Curlers at Dusk

 

CHRIS DEMPSEY

Controlled Burn

 

JAMES GRINWIS

Medusa Disrobes  

Obsession of Many

 

DAVID CITINO

Four Drown in Pool

 

HENRY CARLILE

Andrew

 

BRUCE SNIDER

The Fat Sister Speaks

 

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

Blue  

The Garden God’s Removal

 

MICHAEL CADNUM

Skins

 

JULIANNA BAGGOT

Discussing Sorrow with Jesus  

Mother as Judas

 

TOM CRAWFORD

Through a Dog’s Eyes

 

D. NURSKE

A Night in the Men’s Shelter  

In the King’s Garden    

 

AMY NEWMAN

In the Earliest of Morning   

 

PHILLIP TOBIN

The Rain Sonata   

 

WILLIAM KLOEFKORN

Instrumental   

 

JAMES GRABILL

Where Did You Say the Breaking Light Heals?   

Alive

 

Willow Springs Poetry Award

 

LINDA MALNACK

Dog Days, Autumn  

Scorn

 

Fiction

 

JONATHAN PENNER

This Is My Voice

 

RICHARD SPILLMAN

Rain Forest Crunch

 

D. J. THIELKE

Along for the Ride

 

Willow Springs Fiction Award

CHRIS ALLAN MILLER
        Mesmerize Me

Essay

 

YESHO ATIL

Shaving Grandmother

 

ROB TANNER

Fashionable Upstarts and the Etiquette of Cool

 

Review

 

AIMEE LABRIE

Clifford’s Blues

 

issue46

Willow Springs 46 features poetry, prose, and translation by Mary Quade, D. Nurske, Jonathan Johnson, Richard Spillman, and more. The issue also includes Linda Malnack’s “Dog Days, Autumn Scorn,” winner of the 2000 Willow Springs Poetry Award, Chris Alan Miller’s “Mesmerize Me,” winner of the 2000 Willow Springs Fiction Award.

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Willow Springs 47

Willow Springs 47

January 2001

Poetry

 

SHELIA BLACK

First Light  

Married Sex

 

DAVID DODD LEE

People Who

 

CINDY BOSLEY

One Evening with Friends  

Story Problems

 

JANE BAILEY

Depression

 

JAMES GURLEY

Madame Blanchard Takes to the Air

 

S. RAMNATH

Musings, After Her Departure

 

ROBERT GREGORY

The Thing

Below the Moon  

A Fine Place  

Miss Joy’s Gone South  

Say the Could Boy  

The Last One

 

LEE UPTON

The Mussels

 

JOHN MCKERNAN

Brain

 

JERRY MCGUIRE

Li Po in Buffalo

Some Dancers

 

SARAH GRABLE

The Creation of Adam

 

MILES WAGGENER

Antonio Machado and the Trees

 

JAY NEBEL

Crows Over Wheatfields 

Lifeflight

 

TOM WAYMAN

The Nap  

A Smaller Table

 

TODD BALAZIC

Disturbance at 4th and Brecker

 

JON FISCHER

Consequences of a Realized Minor Premise

Letter on My Last Sheet of Paper

 

DANIELLE HANSON

Cruel Son  

He Beat Her

 

SUSANNE KORT

Alice James Announces She Wants to Die

 

CHRIS FORHAN

Dumbwaiter to Heaven    

 

PAISLEY REKDAL

Carvaggio, my left breast and the time my mother took a wrong turn in search of a children’s

halloween party   

 

DIANE THIEL

Excavations  

 

PETER COOLEY

Surprised by Joy  

 

LOUISE JENKINS

High Finance

Where Go the Boats  

 

RONALD LEE JOHNSON

Lara Croft, Lara Croft

 

Poetry in Translation

 

MARINA TSVETAEVA (translated by KRISTIN BECKER)

        In the Middle of the Room…

 

Fiction

 

LOU BENDRICK

Saints

 

ROBERT ABEL

I Married a Monster, and We Had Kids

 

Nonfiction

 

NATON LESLIE

The Cradle

 

TOD MARSHALL

No Country for Old Men

AWP Intro Award Winners

 

LISA LISHMAN

Wind

 

JONATHAN FINK

At Ten A.M., My Father Calls to Say a Student of His, a Young Wife, Has Been Killed at Night,

Broad-Sided, Alone, on a Back Country Road   

 

BRYAN PENBERTHY

Utah Before Stars  

 

RHYS ALEXANDER

Vampire

issue47

Willow Springs 47 features poetry, prose, and translation by Robert Gregory, Lou Bendrick, Tod Marshall, David Dodd Lee, and more.

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Willow Springs 48

Willow Springs 48

June 2001

Poetry

 

JULIANA BAGGOTT

The Birds and the Bees: What to Tell the Children

 

KURT BROWN

America 1968

 

JAMES GRABILL

At the Ballpark of Exchanged Gnosis

 

MICHAEL STRELOW

Licking Statues

 

DARA WIER

Day After a Funeral  

A Walk in Dubuque

 

JIM HEYNEN

Maniacs and Idiots

 

CAROL JAMES BANG

Psalm V: Migration

 

DENNIS SALEH

Typefoundry

 

ROBERT BENSE

Material Commenting on Matter: An Operetta in One Act

 

MARK HALLIDAY

Surely

Shelved

 

DENISE DUHAMEL

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Kenneth Koch

 

LEX RUNCIMAN

Pink

 

TOM CRAWFORD

Higgins Bar & Grill

Companion to a Loon 

Wu Wei

 

PAISLEY REKDAL

Scientific American and St. Theresa: Ecstasy

 

JEFFERY THOMSON

Postscript

 

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL

Florida, State of Imagination

 

GEORGE LOONEY

Treatise on the Meliorative Function of Ruin

 

MELISSA KWASNY

Black Geese in the Honey-Stubble of Fields Near Spring  

Letter on My Last Sheet of Paper

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

 

LISA RHODES

Wrecked 

Ugly Poem 

New Poem

Fiction

 

WILLIAM RYAN

Stunt

 

MICHAEL DOWNS

Man Kills Wife, Two Dogs

 

NICOLE LOUISE REID

(Re)Collection  

 

PAGE HODGEN

Displacement

 

George Garret Fiction Award

 

MICHAEL HOLLISTER

Holywood

Nonfiction

 

TOM SAYA

Meditations on a Mask

issue48

Willow Springs 48 features poetry and prose by Tom Crawford, Melissa Kwasny, Mark Halliday, Page Hodgen, and more. The issue also includes Lisa Rhodes’ “Wrecked,” “Ugly Poem,” and “New Poem,” winner of the 2001 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Michael Hollister’s “Holywood,” winner of the 2001 George Garrett Fiction Award.

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Willow Springs 49

Willow Springs 49

January 2002

Poetry

 

GERARD MALANGA

Have a Look  

Meshes of the Afternoon  

Suddenly Remembering Brion Gysin

 

JOHN RYBICKI

Mud Brother Lord  

Thirty Years Ago

 

 

MARK W. HALPERIN

Fasting on Yom Kippur in St. Petersburg

 

SUSAN LUDVIGSON

The Tower

 

KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY

Math  

Broken Stove

 

DAVID LENSON

Terminus

Snow

 

KEVIN PRUFER

The God of Clues  

Who Are Our Barbarians?

 

ELISABETH MURAWSKI

Pretending in the Shower to Be Blind

 

ROBERT GREGORY

Someone’s Been Eating the Moon Again  

Where the Skin Is  

A Sleepy Town, One Black Marble  

American Rain

 

R. M. RYAN

Glenn Gould Plays the Variations

 

Poetry in Translation

 

OSIP MENDELSTAM (translated by JOAN ALESHIRE)

126.  

341.  

137. The Slate Ode  

112.  

394.

Fiction

 

DEB OLIN UNFERTH

Single Percent

 

WILLIAM RYAN

Saved

Fiction in Translation

 

DORIS DORRIE (translated by GUSTAV A. RICHAR)

Am I Beautiful?

Nonfiction

 

RICHARD MORGAN

Before the Rain Comes

 

AWP Intro Award Winners

 

ADAM MCOMBER

The Purse

 

LORRAINE MEJIA-GREEN

How the Star in the Middle of the Apple Saved Her Life

 

CLAIRE HERO

What is Left 

 

BENJAMIN KOSTIVAL

Habeas Corpus

issue49

Willow Springs 49 features poetry, prose, and translation by Gerard Malanga, Kevin Prufer, Robert Gregory, William Ryan, Richard Morgan, and more.

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Willow Springs 50

Willow Springs 50

June 2002

Poetry

 

BECKIAN FFITZ GOLDBERG

Sexual Shamans” from Ancient Legends and Infidelities  

Art and Life  

Wigs Armor  

Faithful

 

GIBBONS RUARK

Nesting Epiphany’s Snowfall

 

DAVID LEE

Canyonlands, Eden

 

WILLIAM KLOEFKORN

Sergeant Patrick Gass, Chief Carpenter: On the Trail with Lewis and Clark

 

BRAD CLOMPUS

Healing Ceremony

 

CARYN MIRRIAM-GOLDBERG

The Snow Queen

 

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

Entrance

Snow

 

DENNIS SALEH

Lamentation

 

KURT S. OLSSON

The Architecture of Exile

 

ROBERT GREGORY

Is It Bad to Forget What You Dream

Like a City in Rain

 

ABIGAIL HOWELL

The Sky Has a String in Its Mouth

The Woman Composed of Birds

 

KEVIN CRAFT

Medical History

 

DAVID DODD LEE

Lake Winnipeg

 

LINDA ELKIN

The Edge of Believing

 

JOHN HENNESSY

Nicholas, Flying 

Mike Devlin

 

JOHN LATTA

John Latta, in a Copybook 

Garden Variety Stories

 

LOIS ROSEN

Blizzard

 

RUSH RANKIN

Retiring

 

TOM WAYMAN

Gesture  

What Teaching First-Year College Poetry Taught Me

 

CHARLES FREELAND

Night Song  

The Inferno

 

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

 

GREG PAPE

Steps

Fiction

 

KIM SILVEIRA WOTERBEEK

The Fur Is Feline

 

TOM CRAWFORD

Frank’s Story

 

Fiction in Translation

 

BYRON RODRIGUEZ (translated by CARLOS REYES)

from Bestiary of Ashes

 

George Garret Fiction Award

 

JODY AZZOUNI

Giant Squid in High Places

 

Review

 

ROBERT ABEL

Telling the Stories of the Disappeared

issue50-e1515717810561

Willow Springs 50 features poetry, prose, and translation by Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Michael Heffernan, Tom Crawford, Byron Rodriguez, and more. The issue also includes Greg Pape’s “Steps,” winner of the 2002 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Michael Jody Azzouni’s “Giant Squid in High Places,” winner of the 2002 George Garrett Fiction Award and Robert Abel’s review, “Telling the Stories of the Disappeared.”

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Willow Springs 51

Willow Springs 51

January 2003

Poetry

 

TOM CRAWFORD

The Enthusiast

 

ROBERT GREGORY

The Winged Man  

Glossary for Winter

 

OLIVER RICE

And Monkeys Bark

 

GARY SHORT

Release  

Nesting

 

ELIZABETH REES

Keeping Kosher

 

JAMES GRABILL

Hieroglyphics from Wind and the Inside of Seeds

Marigolds Out Back  

The Night Sky  

Maureen Clark  

Psalm

 

ERIC TORGERSON

Clearing Out Old Books  

For Cinderella

 

ROB CARNEY

Some Hearts Really Are Volcanos

More Than Ashes to Ashes, Not Just Dust to Dust

 

DC BERRY

Hamlet Off Stage: She Wheel  

Hamlet Off Stage: The Snake’s Mona Lisa Smile

 

ELIZABETH MURAWSKI

Before the Air Became the Journey

 

VICTORIA ANDERSON

Heresy

 

Fiction

 

WENDELL MAYO

Cold Fried Pike

 

MICHAEL HOLLISTER

Dolph in School

 

Nonfiction

 

DARREN DEFRAIN

Evangelical Rubric

 

AWP Intro Award Winners

 

ERIKKA MUELLER

Polydora ligni at Low-tide

 

KAREN HAUSDOERFFER

Assumption   

 

MATHIAS SVALINA

           A Stark House Deal with Joel Cates

 

RACHEL STOCKERT

Therapee 

   

issue51

Willow Springs 51 features poetry and prose by Robert Gregory, James Grabill, Wendell Mayo, Darren Defrain, DC Berry, and more.

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