Willow Springs 36

Willow Springs 36

June 1995

Poetry

 

JAY LADIN

Arkansas

 

MARK IRWIN

The Window  

Vines

 

JAMES WILLIAMS

Sleep  

Matriarchs

 

SUZANNE PAOLA

Driftwood Beach: Theme & Variations

 

ANTHONY SOBIN

Another Birthday: Sending the Angel Ahead

 

TONY HOFER

Grandfather Escapes Into a Sparrow

 

THEODORA TODD

We are on the Ferry Again

 

REGINALD SHEPHERD

Vampires 

 

JACK MYERS

self to Self 

Posessed 

Keepers of the Past

 

JOHN WHALEN

Radio

 

JOUL BROUWER

May Day, 1921, In the Town of Vitebsk

 

JAY MEEK

Jars

 

SHELIA NICKERSON

Evensong

 

Poetry in Translation

 

GRZEGROZ MUSIAL (translated by LIA PURPURA)

Untitled 

All Souls’ Day on the Bay 

Death in Berlin 

Charlottenburg–the Park Scenes 

Untitled

 

LIA PURPURA

Where Language Lives: Notes on Translation (Essay)

 

BLAGA DIMITROVA (translated by JOHN BALABAN and ELENA HRISTOVA)

Who Takes Care of the Blind Stork?

Lullaby For My Mother

 

SWEGEY GANDLEVSKY (translated by PHILLIP METRES)

Untitled

 

VINCIUS DE MORAES (translated by THOMAS DORSETT and MOYSES PURISCH)

Dead Can Sonnet

 

INGEBORG BACHMANN (translated by THOMAS DORSETT)

Paris

 

Translations by SAM HAMILL

Five Haiku from the Japanese

 

SU DONG-PO (translated by YUN WANG)

He Xin Lang (To the Bridegroom)

 

PABLO NERUDA (translated by NANCY ANCROM)

Hymn and Return

 

HAN SHAN (translated by PETER STAMBLER)

Judging a Scroll by its Ribbons

 

YANNIS RITSOS (translated by MARTIN MCKINSEY)

Selections from Ticks of the Clock

 

SA’ADI YOUSSEF (translated by KHALED MATTAWA)

On the Red Sea

 

HASIM SHAFIQ (translated by KHALED MATTAWA)   

The First House 

 

JULES SUPERVIELLE (translated by GEOFFREY GARDNER)   

Untitled 

 

PHILIPPE SOUPAULT (translated by TOM HIBBARD)  

Little Daily Phantoms  

 

OSCAR VLADISLAS DE LUBICZ MILOSZ (translated by TOD MARSHALL)  

Autumn Song 

The Bridge  

 

LUCRETIUS (Translated by JONATHHAN SPIEGEL and JEAN BERRETT)

from De Rerum Natura, Book II

 

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

 

MARRY ANN SAMYN

Omitting the Heart

Essay

 

TOD MARSHALL

Our Daily Bread: Some Thoughts on Simone Weil

Fiction

 

BRAD BARKLEY

Clown Alley

Willow Springs Fiction Award

 

ROBERT HENRY BENNETT

Outside Sylvie City

issue36

Willow Springs 36 features poetry, prose, and translation by Jay Ladin, Mark Irwin, Brad Barkley, Jack Myers, and more. The issue also includes Mary Ann Samyn’s “Omitting the Heart,” winner of the 1995 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Robert Harry Bennett’s “Outside Sylvie City,” winner of the 1995 Willow Springs Fiction Award.

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Willow Springs 35

Willow Springs 35

January 1995

Poetry

 

VICKI GRAHAM

Tracks

 

GERY FINCKE

The Rain After Sunshine

 

D. NURSKE

Fever in a Rented Room  

Neptune Avenue  

Returning to the Capital

 

RICH IIVES

Sofia Kovalevskaya at Palobino, 1857

 

CHRISTOPHER HOWELL

The Getaway

 

DENNIS HELD

In Praise of Abandon

 

JOHN POCH

Disturbance

 

KELLEEN ZUBICK

Late

 

PHILLIP MAHAFFEY

The Leg

 

ALBERT GOLDBARTH

Preparation

The Neighborhood, 1956

 

STEVEN COPE

In Killdeer’s Field

 

TALVIKKI ANSEL

You Don’t Know What Happened When You Froze

 

ROBERT STOTHART

Day’s Last Work

 

CHASE TWICHELL

Little Snowscape  

White Conclusion

 

D. J. SMITH

Man with Woman in Red

 

JEFFERY MCDANIEL

Dead Twin

 

HUGH STEINBURG

Four Erotic Poems

 

TIMOTHY LIU

North Truro

A Farther View

Fiction

 

ALISON BAKER

My Mother Was a Cabaret Singer

Review

 

LEE UPTON

The Grave Ariel of North American Poetry

Art

 

YUIJI HIRATSUKA

Eight Prints

AWP Intro Award Winners

 

BRET KEELING

Jessie–Part II 

One Night Stand

 

SJOHNNA MCCRAY

How to Move

 

VIRGINIA PARRISH

Cousins

 

KATHERINE COTTLE

Cole Slaw

 

JACK BRANNON

At the Vietnam Memorial, Washington, November 11

 

ANDRES MONTOYA

Again Tonight: Aztlandian Dream

 

JOSEPH SMALLEY

Buildings

 

DIMITRI ANASTASOPOULOS

Yesterday’s Bread for Spiro

issue35

Willow Springs 35 features poetry and prose by Albert Goldbarth, Christopher Howell, Chase Twichell, Alison Baker, and more, and art from Yuiji Hiratsuka.

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Willow Springs 34

Willow Springs 34

Summer 1994

Poetry

 

RICK ALLEY

Cleaning

With Gratitude, In-Depth & Sweet

 

A. MANETTE ANSAY

Ponies

 

SHANNON BORG

One Version of a Summer Night

 

MICHAEL CADNUM

Anatomy of an Eye

 

NICOLE COOLEY

Alice in Paradise  

Good Friday

 

CAROLINE FINKELSTEIN

1950 

The Rescue

 

JAMES GRABILL

Suddenly Tonight I am Listening

 

ALVIN GREENBERG

Pleurisy

 

NELSON HOLLAND

Mind’s Eye  

Night and Day  

Slight of Hands

 

LAURA KASISCHKE

45

Black Bear Paw $20

 

RUSSEL KESLER

On the Bus

 

WILLIAM KLOEFKORN

Thinking More, Talking Less

 

RUTH ELLEN KOCHER

Sestina Mouths the Object, the Word

 

LANCE OLSEN

Stories

 

JAY SCHNEIDERS

Bay of Pigs

 

WILLIAM VIANT

No Evil

Fiction

 

JANE MARTIN

Belmar

 

CHARLES ROSE

Complicity

Review

 

ELIZABETH OAKES

In Anticipation of Accompaniment: The Solo Voice in the Wide World

Art

 

SUSANNE BANNERSTORM

Oil Paintings

 

Translation

 

FRANCIS JAMMES (translated by TOM HIBBARD)

Wedding Day

 

PIERRE REVERDY (translated by TOM HIBBARD)

Clandestine Passage

 

GUILLAUME APPOLLINAIRE (translated by DONALD REVELL)

The Wind by Night  

and Marie

 

issue34

Willow Springs 34 features poetry, prose, and translation by Nelson Holland, Caroline Finkelstein, Charles Rose, Elizabeth Oakes, and more, and art from Susan Bannerstrom.

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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

 

issue30

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

issue29

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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