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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

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

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

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

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

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

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Willow Springs 52

June 2003

Poetry

THOMAS LUX

Birds Nailed to Trees

Boatloads of Mummies

Say You’re Breathing

The Late Ambassadorial Light

Peacocks in Twilight

LAWRENCE GOECKEL

The Stare of Drowned Statuary

GEORGE LOONEY

Gene Study Shows Whales are Close Relatives of Hippos

EMOKE PULAY

Hungarians in America

RUSSEL THORBURN

Winter Rides Her Bicycle Uphill

LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER

To the Postmodernist or He Doesn’t Like [Truth]

DAVID ROMTVEDT

Science

JOHN HOGDEN

This Moon, These Fifty Years

Pre-Natal

Weaning

Outside the Coolawhatchie Blimpie Gas ‘N Go

PAULA BOHINCE

Eating Fish in Pittsburgh

A. J. RATHBUN

Matinee

ANGIE HOGAN

Bootleg

LIBBY WAGNER

After Arguing

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

MISTY HARPER

Splitting

Fiction

ROBERT OLMSTEAD

My Husband and Your Story

ANDER MONSON

Residue

MELVIN SI INNF

The Heart-Smart Diet

George Garret Fiction Award

GARY FINCKE

Evolution: The Blazer Sestinii

Nonfiction in Translation

GUISEPPA ANTONIA MALLIMACI (translated by EDWARD VASTA)

The Lucky Ones

Interview

PHILLIP LOPATE

Willow Springs 52 features poetry, prose, and translation by Thomas Lux, John Hogden, Robert Olmstead, Guiseppa Antonia Mallimaci, and more. The issue also includes Misty Harper’s “Splitting,” winner of the 2003 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Gary Fincke’s “Evolution: The Blazer Sestinii,” winner of the 2003 George Garrett Fiction Award and an interview with Phillip Lopate.

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Willow Springs 53

Spring 2004

Chapbook

ROBERT GREGORY

When It’s Your Turn to Be the Sky

Poetry

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL

Manege de la Vilette

THOMAS REITER

Hosanna Walk

JOHN PURSLEY III

Light Upon Water

DANIEL BOURNE

Painstaking, the Scarecrows

DAVID LAWRENCE

Sketches

SCOTT WITHIAM

Missing Hikers

HANS OSTROM

Bread and Bus: An Essay

JOHN DRURY

Double Elegy

CAROLYN GUINZIO

White Box, Wax Paper

DENNIS SALEH

The Thumb

LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER

Weaning

The Turtle of Love

DENNIS HINRICHSEN

Samurai Spring

The Sound-of-One-Hand-Clapping Shout

Poetry in Translation

PAUL VALERY (translated by LOUIS E. BOURGEOIS)

View

GEORGES GODEAU (translated by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY)

Buffet

Fiction

ALEX MINDT

Sabor a Mí

THOMAS GOUGH

You See How Much I Know About Jazz

CHRISTOPHER TOROCKIO

Powers of Expression

AWP Intro Award Winners

CATHERINE PIERCE

Evolution

SARAH GAGE

What We Look for and What We Find

JEFF FALLIS

The Philosophies of Popular Songs

PAULETTE BEETE

Mighty Tight Woman

Interview

RICK BASS

Willow Springs 53 features poetry, prose, and translation by Jesse Lee Kercheval, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Thomas Gough, Paul Valéry, and more. This issue also features Robert Gregory’s chapbook, “When It’s Your Turn to Be the Sky,“ as well as an interview with Rick Bass.

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Willow Springs 25

Winter 1990

Poetry

MARGARET AHO

Seeing Eye to Eye With My Father

Handless Maiden and Child

DICK BAKKEN

The Hugh High Engines Unheard

MICHAEL BURKARD

House by the Sea

A Kind of Ink against the Twilight

E.G BURROWS

Oresteia

PATRICIA COVEY

Ghost Story

BARBRA CULLEY

Once You’ve Collected Your Selves Like Books About You

Hatfield Apts.

RUSSEL EDSON

The Enchantment

The House Frog

The While Awaying

ROGER FINCH

One Sunday in Velvet

AARON FISCHER

Hansel in Recovery

CECILIA HAGEN

Maneuvers

The Way Out of the Fly Bottle

JACQUELINE HARTWICH

The Song of a Bird on a Gravel Shore

NANCY JOHNSON

To a White Crow

MARTHA MCFERREN

Story Lady

JACK MYERS

Attack of the Killer Power Tools

AMY PENCE

The Bowl

One Shallow in the Body

JUDITH ROCHE

Alternate Insomnia

JEFF SCHIFF

The Move

JEFF STOCKWELL

The Blackout

DAVID SWERDLOW

Breathing

NANCE VAN WINCKEL

Nothing To Do In Town

Fiction

DEIRDRA MCAFEE

At The Time of Exposure

Essay

DONALD REVELL

“Absences”: The Oz and Sheol of James Tate

Interview

RUBEN TRJO
Portfolio

Willow Springs 25 features poetry and prose by Russell Edson, Jack Myers, Jeff Stockwell, Nance Van Winckel, Deirdra McAfee and more, and featuring art from Ruben Trejo.

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Willow Springs 24

Summer 1989

Fiction

ANDREA BARRETT

Escaped Alone to Tell

ANNIE DAWID

The Meteorite Shower

SESSHU FOSTER

The Street of the Fathers

BRET LOTT

Garage Sale

JAY NEUGEBOREN

How I Became an Orphan in 1947

HANS OSTROM

Bluestone

PAT ELLIS TAYLOR

The School of Reversals

SUSAN WHEELER

Agitations

WILLIAM WISHBOW

Soccer

Art

CORNELIA MCSHEEHY

Willow Springs 24 features prose by Bret Lott, Andrea Barrett, Hans Ostrom, and more, as well as art from Cornelia McSheehy.

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Willow Springs 23

Winter 1989

Poetry

KEITH ALTHAUS

Winter Dawn

ZOE ANGLESEY

Peace Over the City

MICHAEL BURKARD

Wanted

Bridges with People on Them

Adultery

Singing in the Rain

FRANCES DRISCOLL

Unpurchased Batteries

ROBERT EDWARDS

Espanol 101

DAVID GRAHAM

The Names of Parents

ROBERT GREY

In Other Words

SAL HALPERN

Survivors

ZBIGNIEW HERBERT

A Suicide

translated by Marek Labinski

LINDSAY KNOWLTON

Guilty

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA

A Quality of Light

GREG KUZMA

Worlds

JANE MILLER

Lucky Pierre’s

The Butane Egg

SHARON OLINKA

The Man in the 1986 Thunderbird

Making a Sale

MICHAEL PURROW

Pantoum

SERGEI PETRUNIS

Hieroglyphs

translated by Mary Jane White with the assistance of Alexander Sumerkin

TRACY PHILPOT

Playing House

THERESE PLANTIER

No One Writes Me

This Being the Season

So that Fur and Water and My Dreams Surround You

HALINA POSWIATOWSKA

Evenings

translated by Marek Labinski

DONALD REVELL

Heliotrope: Years and Years after the Revolution

DOREN ROBBINS

Could You Have Understood This, Marc Chugall? The Male Soul Was My Whipping Boy

JOAN SWIFT

Stockings

MARGARET SZUMOWSKI

The Woman Who Gave Up a Good Thing

STEPHAN TORRE

Neighbor Upriver

MARY JANE WHITE

Evenings

Fiction

DAISY TAYLOR

Mademoiselle

Review

DONALD REVEL

Survival Without Irony

Art

GERALD CANNON

Willow Springs 23 features poetry, prose, and translation by Zbigniew Herbert, Sharon Olinka, Donald Revell, Daisy Taylor, and more, and featuring art from Gerald Cannon.

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Willow Springs 22

Spring 1988

Poetry

DOROTHY BARRESI

Honeymoon Ocean, 1939

GERALD COSTANZO

Carl Yastrzemski

Fatty Arbuckle

MARK COX

Donald

DAVID LENSON

Spy Novel

OSIP MANDELSTAM

Twelve Poems

translated from Slovene by Daniel Bourne

MARY JANE WHITE

Here

JEFFERY WHITEHEAD

Landscape with Skidding Dove

Fiction

MADELINE DEFREES

The Ventriloquist’s Dummy

GARY SOTO

Taking Inventory of the House

WILLIAM VAN WERT

The Lack of Flashbacks in Leftist Films

Nonfiction

LES WHITE

The Southerner and Expatriation: Regional Identity and the Problem of Community

Art

CHARELS BISHOP
My Joseph Cornell, a script (performance art)

NANCY E. WYLLIE

Willow Springs 22 features poetry and prose by Gerald Costanzo, Jeffrey Whitehead, Madeline DeFrees, Gary Soto, and more, and featuring art from Nancy E. Wyllie.

Winter 1988

Poetry

MICHAEL BURKARD

To Rose

Child at Anchor

The Night is a Sea

PETER COOLEY

A Dream of Childhood

The Choices

MADELINE DEFREES

This Paper White Narcissus

RUSSEL EDSON

The Rabbit Story

Of Distant Stars

That Day

TOMASZ JASTRUM

Exodus

Our Black Madonna of Czestochowa

Father and Son

translated from Slovene by Daniel Bourne

RODGER KAMENETZ

Meg and Joe: Five Poems

RICHARD KATROVAS

Ed’s Gun

Shifting

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA

The Cops Call Him Charlie

protection of Movable Cultural Heritage

February in Syndney

THOMAS LUX

Peevish

The Fracture Family

On a High Branch

CAROLYN MAISEL

A Woman is Missing

Tarbaby in the Briar Patch

For a Composer Beset by Admirers

JACK MYERS

Alien

Out of the Question

ALBERTO RIOS

Lost on the September Trail, 1976

Miguelin and is Best Idea

The Sea by Holding

LEE UPTON

Sold

The Faithful Wife

ELIZABETH THOMAS

Cerrillos Petting Zoo

DARA WIER

Little Black Tangrams

Nude Descending a Staircase

Fiction

LEE DURKEE

The Gar

DAVID RUSSEL YOUNG

Mr. Ridgway

Nonfiction

MADELINE DEFREES

Burning Questions

Art

JAN GILBERT

Willow Springs 21 features poetry and prose by Russell Edson, Yusef Komunyakaa, David Russell Young, Madeline DeFrees, and featuring art from Jan Gilbert.

Willow Springs 49

January 2002

Poetry

Poetry in Translation

Fiction

Fiction in Translation

Nonfiction

AWP Intro Award Winners

Willow Springs 50

June 2002

Poetry

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

Fiction

Fiction in Translation

George Garret Fiction Award

Review

Willow Springs 51

January 2003

Poetry

Fiction

Nonfiction

AWP Intro Award Winners

Willow Springs 52

June 2003

Poetry

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

Fiction

George Garret Fiction Award

Nonfiction in Translation

Interview

Willow Springs 53

Spring 2004

Chapbook

Poetry

Poetry in Translation

Fiction

AWP Intro Award Winners

Interview

Willow Springs 25

Winter 1990

Poetry

Fiction

Essay

Interview

Willow Springs 24

Summer 1989

Fiction

Art

Willow Springs 23

Winter 1989

Poetry

Fiction

Review

Art

Willow Springs 22

Spring 1988

Poetry

Fiction

Nonfiction

Art

Willow Springs 21

Winter 1988

Poetry

Fiction

Nonfiction

Art