Willow Springs 17

Willow Springs 17

Winter 1986

Poetry

 

LEON CHIDESTER

Most Things Break  

And You’ll Break Your Mother’s Back  

Son

 

ROBERT COOPERMAN

From the Ballad of “The Twa Corbies” 

Sir Patrick Spens  

The Witches of Salem

 

BREWSTER GHISELIN

Leone Traverso (Italian) 

Leone Traverso (English) 

Llewelyn Powys 

A Celebration

 

ROBERT GIBB

Among the Successions 

Listening to the Ballgame

 

BOGOMIL GJUZEL

When I Came Back  

On the Way Back  

Prostitution

 

FLORENCE GREATHOUSE

Forgetting 

 

PAMELA GROSS

The Cache

 

ALLEN HOEY

Hymns to a Tree 

 

SIBYL JAMES

A Well in Chad

 

RICHARD JONES

The Idle Fleet, James River, Virginia

The Wounded One

 

KONSTANTINOS LARDAS

Gloria

Adelphic 

Marvels

 

DAVID LEE

Alpine Pond, Cedar Breaks 

South Gorge, Moab 

Kaiparowits Plateau

 

SHANNON NELSON

The Carbon River

 

TOM REA

The King Dreams Queen Q 

The X Cross 

Y of the Uplifted Arms

 

MAURYA SIMON

Sunday 

First Light  

Self Portrait  

Encounter

 

LISA STEINMAN

The Translation of Natural Languages  

An Anatomy of Dreams  

Reading for the Governor in the Ceremonial Office

 

DON WELCH

Borges  Three Small Letters to the Coast

 

CAROLYNE WRIGHT

Eulene Stays the Course

Eulene Enters the Me Generation  

Return to Sender?

 

Fiction

 

GREGORY NAMEE

Renardin

 

DAVID SIMS

Stickman

 

SUSAN WHEELER

Grieving

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Willow Springs 17 features poetry, prose, and translation by Robert Gibb, David Lee, Don Welch, David Sims, and more.

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Willow Springs 16

Willow Springs 16

Summer 1985

Poetry

 

AGHA SHAHID ALI

Homage to Faiz Ahmed Faiz

 

KAREN CHASE

Aspects of Luck

 

TU FU

Late Thoughts I 

Late Thoughts II 

Lament for Ch’ien T’ao 

An Ancient Battlefield 

The Journey North

 

FLORENCE GREATHOUSE

Touring

 

SAM HAMILL

Cloistered 

‘True Illumination is Habitude’  

Scrutability 

At Rexroth’s Grave

 

CHRISTIAN KNOELLER

The Morning Fire

 

LOUISE LABE

Sonnet 3

Sonnet 8

Sonnet 9

Sonnet 10

Sonnet 12

 

ROBERT LIEIZ

Turncoat

Stage Fright

 

KERRY PAUL MAY

The Descent

 

WALTER MCDONALD

Driving Alone at Night Through Hardscrabble 

On the Gunnison 

First Freeze

 

DOREN ROBBINS

On Crete 

Homage to Yuang-Hung-Tao 

Act Like a Monkey, Make an Ass Out of Yourself

 

ADEN ROSS

Daywatch

 

Fiction

 

J. ANTHONY CONNOR

Raven

Jacob’s Ladder

 

URSULA HEGI

To the Gate

 

JOHN KEEBLE

The Ghost Versions (excerpt)  

 

VINCENT PASSARO

Neruda and the Mets

 

Nonfiction

 

BRIAN HARRIS

Language and the Mirror in King Lear

 

Photography

ROBERT ALBERT
        In Rehearsal

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Willow Springs 16 features poetry and prose by Sam Hamill, John Keeble, Karen Chase, Agha Shahid Ali, and more, and photography from Robert Albert.

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Willow Springs 15

Willow Springs 15

Winter 1985

Poetry

 

ELMAZ ABINADER

Looking for Birds 

Living Without Guatemala 

The 4:05 a.m.

 

MANUEL SILVA ACEVEDO

A la Apollinaire

 

ROBERT COOPERMAN

Story Tellers 

Names in the Book of Life  

He Could Get It For Me Wholesale  

The Indoor Track

 

NANCY DONEGAN

P.S. for August

 

ODYSSEAS ELYTIS

Sun the First

 

OSCAR HAHN

Vision of Hiroshima

 

MICHAEL HANNON

On Cold Mountain

 

JACQUELINE HARTWICH

Open Secret

 

GERALD HAUSMAN

See and Saw

 

ALLEN HOEY

The Bus to Common Center 

Nocturn

 

DONNELL HUNTER

Listening to Voices

 

OMAR LARA

The Poet’s Days

 

DIEGO MAGUIERIRA

Your Great Love

 

SERGIO MANSILLA

Cauquil

 

THOMAS MCGARTH

from Letters to an Imaginary Friend (Excerpt)

 

PABLO NURUDA

from The Separate Rose (Excerpt)

 

KENNETH SCHNEXNAYDER

Like This 

Blackberries

 

CAROL SOWARDS

North to Yuma, Arizona 

Lost River Valley

 

RAUL ZURITA

Aconcagua

 

Fiction

 

MICHELLE HUNEVEN

from Round Rock Farm (Excerpt)

 

GREGORY MCNAMEE

Red Square, Zalophus, RMN

 

JOE TAYLOR

Hounds of Heaven

 

Photography

 

ROBERT LLOYD

Eight Photographs

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Willow Springs 15 features poetry and prose by Pablo Neruda, Thomas McGrath, Robert Cooperman, Joe Taylor, and more, and photographs from Robert Lloyd.

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Willow Springs 14

Willow Springs 14

Spring 1984

Poetry

 

KEITH AUBREY

Water Passages

 

SHEPHEN C. BEHRENDT

Early June Woods

 

HAYDEN CARRUTH

“So, Dolling, You Love the Bright Month of October. O Yi! By Me You Can Have It,” She Said

 

ROGER FINCH

To a Lover of Shadows

 

GALEN GARWOOD

from Passport (paintings and poems)

 

GREG GLAZNER

After Sunset

 

SAM GREEN

Mallards, Morning  

Covenant: Saying Hello to the Land We Will Live With  

My Father Sang to Himself

 

SAM HAMILL

from Passport (paintings and poems)

 

HORACE

Ode to Sestius, Former Consul  

To Pyrrha, Temptress

 

GAYLE ROGERS KAUNE

Returning to Richland  

 

CAROLYN KIZER

For Jan as the End Draws Near

 

JAMES J. MCAULEY

Walk-In-The-Wild Zoo 

Sea-Writer  

The House is Ready

 

WILLIAM O'DALY

Port Townsend: The Unwritten Letter

Oregon Coast: The Fire

 

N. M. RASHID

Expression and Reach

 

SHELBY STEPHENSON

Brimming with Pitfalls

 

GERRY TIFFANY

Journey to Damascus

 

EMILY WARN

The New Deal

Esther’s Boutique  

Kaddish

 

AL YOUNG

Available Light

The Slots  

Whatever Becomes of the Living?

 

Fiction

 

JUDGE M. SCHONFELD

from AS: A Crude Translation (excerpt)

 

Nonfiction

 

KEITH AUBREY

The Dreampriest

 

GREGORY MCNAMEE

When We With Sappho

 

Art

GARWOOD/HAMILL
        from Passport (paintings and poems)

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Willow Springs 14 features poetry and prose by Hayden Carruth, Sam Green, Judge M. Schonfeld, Carolyn Kizer, Keith Aubrey and more.

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Willow Springs 13

Willow Springs 13

Fall 1983

Poetry

 

JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE

Odd Days 

The Infinite Trip 

Three Strophes of Dust

 

DAVID CITINO

Sister Mary Apassionata Lecture the Zoology Class: Doctrines of The Beast

 

ROBERT COOPERMAN

Gregorian Chants 

6,000,000

 

WAYNE DODD

Down the Many Steps of Light  

Imaginative Study: At the Hocking Canal Lock

 

ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON

Summer Storm 

On A Lake

 

DENISE LEVERTOV

from Of Rivers

 

OVTAVIO PAZ

Four Black Poplars

 

GIOVANNI RABONI

Moon

Madrigal

Moving

 

LEX RUNCIMAN

Vacation

Recovery

 

PHILLIPPE SOUPAULT

New Year

Blood of the Sky 

It’s For You 

As Far As

 

M. FAY WRIGHT

Like Salt, We Are Holy

 

Fiction

 

JAMES BOND

Fools Fall

 

PARTIK HENERY

The Spanking of Jean-Paul Sartre

 

Nonfiction

 

MICHAEL GURIAN

from Literature and the Threshing Floor (excerpt)

 

BRIAN HARRIS

The Implications of Reduction In Robert Bly’s Eight Stages of Translation

 

Drama

NIALL QUINN
        Rejection (one-act play)

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Willow Springs 13 features poetry and prose by Giovanni Raboni, Jorge Carrera Andrade, James Bond, Wayne Dodd, and more, and a one act play by Niall Quinn.

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Willow Springs 12

Willow Springs 12

Spring 1983

Poetry

 

SANDOR CSOORI

Someone Comforts Me With A Poem  

A Poem for Diogenes  

Gravediggers with Cigarettes

 

COLM FLYNN

The Queen of the Snowfields 

The House Of Fuschia 

The Taste Of Strawberries  

The Fall

 

KEN GERNER

Dithyramb

 

MARC HARSHMAN

Snow Company

 

MARK HUDSON

Under Snaefellsjokull

 

DAVID LEE

Mean

 

PAULA MEEHAN

The Garden Of The Sleeping Poet  

Once Again

 

LYNNE SLAUGHTER

Bloodstream

A Fertility Ceremony  

The Fifth Stage Of Sleep

 

Fiction

 

JOANNE MESCHERY

from In Transit (Excerpt)

 

Nonfiction

 

TONY CAFFERKY

from !Be’an’Been! (excerpt)

 

KELLY CHERRY

Writing About Running

 

Interview

JOHN CIARDINI

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Willow Springs 12 features poetry and prose by Sandor Csoori, Colm Flynn, Lynne Slaughter, Kelly Cherry, and more, and an interview with John Ciardini.

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Willow Springs 11

Willow Springs 11

Fall 1982

Poetry

 

KEN GERNER

Sitka Run 

The Arousing

 

GERALDINE GREIG

Letters To A Young Beloved

 

JAAN KAPLINSKY

Seven Poems

 

MICHAEL KNOLL

Running, Autumn, The Sixth Year  

The Dead Tree 

History

 

J. GARY LEMONS

In Memory of John Berryman  

Before The Ink Has Faded

 

Fiction

 

STEVEN BRANDY

Spills

 

ANDREA CARLISLE

The Eggman’s Wife

 

MICHELLE HUNEVEN

The Foot 

 

THOMAS MCGARTH

from Christmas, Section III (excerpt)

 

Nonfiction

 

JOHN KEEBLE

Making Things Up In The West

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Willow Springs 11 features poetry and prose by John Keeble, Thomas McGrath, Michael Knoll, Ken Gerner, and more.

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Willow Springs 10

Willow Springs 10

Spring 1982

Poetry

 

KAY BOYLE

Selections of A Poem in Progress

 

RICHARD DAUENHAUER

Mother Makeyeva

 

GERALD DAWE

Atlantic Circle 

Postcard for Michael

 

DESMOND EGAN

Ground Zero

 

DAVID EMMONS

Hold Out 

From Connecticut

 

FAIZ AHMED FAIZ

#1

#2

#3

 My Visitors 

In Your Eyes and Mine 

The Flowers Have Gone to Seed

 

NATALYA GORBANYEVSKAYA

In the Mad House

 

SAM HAMILL

Ode & Lamentation

To Aphrodite, Naked in the Snow

 

G. KAGANOVSKY

In Memory of Yury Galanskov

 

PAT LAMORTE

Directions for Getting to Our House

How They Tell It in Damascus

 

ANTONIO MACHADO

III 

IV 

XI

 

TIM MCNULTY

Love Charm

 

JOHN MONTAGUE

A Human Smile

 

HELGA NOVAK

Letter to Koladoghbe  

changes of season  

punishment put in perspective  

ballad of travelling Anna

 

PETER ORESICK

How My Brother Came To Love Lenin

 

BORIS PASTERNAK

Sparrow Hills 

In the Forest 

Winter Night 

After the Break

 

GEORGE TRAKL

Birth

Melancholy  

Evening Song 

The Heart  

The Beautiful City

 

MARTY WALSH

The Hermit

 

Fiction

 

LANA EIDSNES

The Young Man and the Older Woman

 

Nonfiction

 

KAY BOYLE

The Uneasiness of Autobiography

 

JAMES J. MCAULEY

Notions: Toward the Redefinition of Irish Culture Or Circling Round an Obsession

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Willow Springs 10 features poetry and prose by Lana Eidsnes, Boris Pasternak, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Richard Dauenhauer, James J. McAuley and more.

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Willow Springs 09

Willow Springs 09

Fall 1981

Poetry

 

LEE BASSETT

When St. Cecelia Gets Hot 

Hello

 

NAOMI CLARK

Table

Lost

 

NATALIE DE COMBRAY

Drake’s Monologue at Cape Horn

 

ROBERT DANA

North of Steptoe Butte

Camping at Crazy Woman Creek

Escudero

Beadwork: Mille Lacs

 

ROGER FINCH

On Stars: The Sempiternal Consciousness

 

MARK HALPERIN

Astonishing Tasks

When There Is No Need

In The Fall Wind

Her Changing

 

ALAN HOEY

Star Gazing: Letter to a New Hampshire

Friend

 

DAVID LEE

The Real Estate

 

EMILY WARN

Northern Lights 

The Compass Flower 

Leaf Paths

 

Fiction

 

JACK CADY

Singleton: Chapter 20

 

JIM HEYNEN

The Ungrowing 

Bidding 

In Which the Librarian Writes a Letter to the Editor 

Uncle Jack’s Riddle

 

BILL RANSOM

Aftermath (excerpts) 

 

MARILYN STABLEIN

Dhobi at the Laundromat 

Dhobi’s Inheritance 

A Severe Drought 

A Cross-Cultural Survey 

Prison Reformed 

What is Compassion to a Fish

 

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Willow Springs 09 features poetry and prose by Naomi Clark, Jim Heynen, Bill Ransom, Mark Halperin, and more.

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Willow Springs 08

Willow Springs 08

Spring 1981

Poetry

 

CHERYL VAN DYKE

Helen and Menelaus Return 

Vertumnus and Pomona

 

GIL ESTES

Christmas Eve

 

KENNETH O. HANSON

The Swallows of Mytilene 

Second Big Hit 

Walking Nude in Phaleron

 

JOSE LOUIS HILDAGO

You Must Go Down 

The Mine 

Sun of Death

 

PETER HUCHEL

To the Deaf Ears of the Generations  

Generations 

Behind the White Net of Midday 

San Michele

 

LYNN C. JACOX

Oracle

Six Poetry Anthologies in the High School Library 

The Green Place 

First Run 

Paltiel Sings in the Field 

Night Walk at Thirty 

Walking a Father’s Grave 

The Name of This Day

 

ERIC JOHNSON

The Wanderer (lines 73-87)

 

THELMA NAVA

The Heart of Afternoon

Thirst

 

RED PINE

Cold Mountain Poems

 

YANNIS RITSOS

Wax Images

 

WILLIAM STAFFORD

Hi-Fi

For English 210 at Cheney 

Willow Campaign

 

PETER STAMBLER

Barn Raising 

Losing Her First Child

 

GERRY TIFFANY

Morning Prayer

Four Letters to Harry: The Name of the Star

 

Fiction

 

HANS ERICH NOSSACH

A Big Help

 

Nonfiction

 

TOM JAY

Words Bear Nature’s Wisdom

 

DAVID LEE

A Reading of “Triada”

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Willow Springs 08 features poetry and prose by José Luis Hidalgo, Kenneth O. Hanson, Lynn C. Jacox, Hans Erich Nossach, and more.

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