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 79

Willow Springs 79

Winter 2017

Poetry

 

MARVIN BELL

The Book of the Dead Man (The Fountain Pen)

 

ABIGAIL CARL-KLASSEN

Theory of Relativity

 

JEFF EWING

Looking Up We See More More Than is There

 

ELIZABETH GOLD

Manatees

 

SONIA GREENFIELD

Bearing Witness

 

LIZZIE HARRIS

Elimination Dating Show

 

SARA ELIZA JOHNSON

Planktonic Foraminifera

 

LAURA KASISCHKE

Spies

 

JOSEPH MILLAR

Dandelion

Persephone

 

DONNA O’CONNELL-GILMORE

Large Man in a Magazine Photo

 

BRUCE SNIDER

Heaven and Earth

On Swallowing the Fourth Plague of Egypt

 

GEORGIA TIFFANY

Whispers

Winter Eucharist

 

ROSS WILCOX

The Smell They Smelled

 

MAYA JEWELL ZELLER

The Pleasure of Ruin

 

Fiction

 

KIM CHINQUEE

Hanging Upside Down

What is Mine

 

LILLY SCHNEIDER

B.Y.O.B.

 

KARL ZUELKE

Fire Artist

 

Nonfiction

 

AIMÉE BAKER

My Best Friend Falls in Love with Tupac Shakur

 

JESSIE VAN EERDEN

Sunday Morning Coming Down

 

MATTHEW VOLLMER

Gong Bang Cleanse

 

Interview

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Willow Springs 79 features prose and poetry from Kim Chenquee, Marvin Bell, Jessie Van Eerden, Laura Kasischke and more.

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Willow Springs 80

Willow Springs 80

Summer 2017

Poetry

 

ELIZABETH AUSTEN

Anniversary

My Fool, My Death

 

ERIN BELIEU

When I Am a Teenage Boy

 

JACKSON HOLBERT

Childhood Poem

 

DAVID KIRBY

Not Easy to Believe

 

KATE LEBO

A Prayer to Cathy McMorris Rodgers for the Preservation of My Health Insurance

 

KATE MACLAM

Almost Everyone

 

ALICIA JO RABINS

To the Fish Inside Me

 

LAURA READ

Girlie Girl

Neither Bride Nor Daughter

Proof for My Side

Self-Portrait with Seaweed and Mica

Self-Portrait as Fresco

The Spell We Cast

 

PAISLEY REKDAL

The Gather

Pear

Pythagorean

 

KATHARINE WHITCOMB

Scene of the Crime

Lost Boys of the Upper Great Plains

 

Fiction

 

SEQUOIA NAGAMATSU

Speak, Fetch, Say I Love You

 

Nonfiction

Interview

PAUL HARDING

PAISLEY REKDAL

Willow Springs Issue 80 cover shows photo of little girl in rain boots standing in ivy.

Willow Springs 80 features prose and poetry from Paul Harding, Paisley Rekdal, Laura Read, Erin Belieu, and more.

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Willow Springs 81

Willow Springs 81

Spring 2018

Poetry

 

EMILY KENDAL FREY

Nature

 

CANESE JARBOE

Rapunzel w/ Head Half-Shaved

 

SUSAN MOORE

Bats

I am climbing into bed with a stiff drink

I wanted to lie down with you where the rooftops

 

MARK PARLETTE-CARIÑO

Here at the Party

 

F. DANIEL RZICZNEK

from Leafmold

 

ALLISON SEAY

Mother of Anxiety

Mother of Memory

 

ALLEN STEIN

The Bad Guys

 

ADAM TAVEL

An Assyrian Eunuch in the Service of Ashurnasirpal II

 

ALEXANDRA TEAGUE

The Giant Artichoke

Self Portrait as Curious Lunatic’s Sketch of a Dancing Girl

 

AMIE WHITTEMORE

Rain Meditation

 

Fiction

Letters to Jim Harrison

Interview

Issue 81 Cover shows Chris Bovey print of Spokane's famous garbage goat in teal and yellow with Willow Springs in decorative font.

Willow Springs 87 features prose and poetry from Alexandra Teague, Emily Kendal Frey, Dan Chaon, Gary Copeland Lilley, and more.

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Willow Springs 83

Willow Springs 83

Winter 2019

Poetry

 

JAKE BAUER

Persuasion

 

C. WADE BENTLEY

The Bells

 

ELEANOR MARY BOUDREAU

Calm Down

 

TR BRADY

dear daybreak,

 

JOHN F. BUCKLEY

Crumple

 

CAITLYN CURRAN

Duck Duck Goose

Fish Tank

 

CHELSEA B. DESAUTELS

To My Daughter in Springtime

Black Hills

 

JOHN GOODHUE

Earth, and Quickly

Outpouring

 

CERIDWEN HALL

troposphere

 

SUZANNE HIGHLAND

The Collector

 

CHRISTOPHER SALERNO

Men Who Won’t Travel

 

ISABELL SHEPHERD

The Closest Moon

 

CODY SMITH

Christmas Elegy with Foot out the Door

 

MAGGIE SMITH

For My Next Trick

How to Build a Fire

Poem Beginning with a Line from Basho

Three Thoughts After Crossing Nameless Creek

 

MELISSA OLIVEIRA

November Haibun

 

LAURA VAN PROOYEN

Marksman

Bless the Feral Hog

 

Fiction

 

BRENNA LEMIEUX

The Year We Lived

 

KATE TIGHE-PIGOTT

The Elegant Universe

 

Nonfiction

 

TRACY HAACK

Instructions for Caring

 

ANNE RAUSTOL

A Drop of Blue

 

MICHAEL R. SCHRIMPER

The Way the World Thinks of Happiness

Interview

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Willow Springs 83 features prose and poetry from John Goodhue, Brenna Lemieux, Laura Van Prooyen, Maggie Smith, and more.

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Willow Springs 76

Willow Springs 76

Fall 2015

Poetry

 

DEVIN BECKER

Ben Lerner

Lerner

Koan Head

10:05

 

CAYLIN CAPRA-THOMAS

Chain

Year of Coming Close

 

MAGGIE MK HESS

We Got Lost. We Were Never Found.

At the Aquarium with God

 

M ROSS HENRY

Chaw

 

BRAD JOHNSON

Ghostly Demarcations

 

LAURA KASISCHKE

Sensual Pleasures

1984

 

KATHRYN NUERNBERGER

The Saint Girl Opens the Window and Closes It as She Pleases

 

LAURA SCHULKIND

Norway Spruce

 

ED SKOOG

1978 Buick Estate Wagon

Playing Banjo

 

RICHARD TYLER

Alabama Public Television

 

ELIZABETH VIGNALI

As I Comb Lice from my Daughters’ Hair

 

CORRIE WILLIAMSON

Mastodon

 

Fiction

 

WES TREXLER

North Jutland Blues

 

JESS WALTER

Cheston!

 

CARISSA HALSTON

Call It a Map (Willow Springs Fiction Prize Winner)

 

Nonfiction

 

FIONA WINSTON

Eagles, Owls, and Other Birds of Prey

 

Interview

Willow Springs Issue 76 cover shows a rustic painted wall in yellows and browns.

Willow Springs 76 features prose and poetry from Kathryn Nuernberger, Devin Becker, Jess Walter, Ed Skoog, Laura Kasischke, Kim Addonizio, and more.

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Willow Springs 75

Willow Springs 75

Spring 2015

Poetry

 

ALEX CHERTOK

The Question

 

JUDE DEASON

Goat Head Weed

 

KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN

Shhh

 

DAVE JARECKI

Brothers

 

LIZ KAY

Rendering— The Witch Boils

Gingerbread— The Witch Remembers

The Witch Discusses the Impossibility of Flight

 

ZAKIA RUBAB KHWAJAh

Dispatch Four Days After the Funeral

Dispatch from Simultaneous Swim Lessons

 

DANA LEVIN

Melancholia

 

MERIT O’HARE

Ornithology

 

ANNETTE OXINDINE

The Novitiate

 

COLIN POPE

Suspect

Phone Call to Plan Abortion, as Flood

 

RICHARD PRINS

Pantoum Found in Tom Waits Lyrics

 

ADAM SCHEFFLER

Elegy Ending with an Apology

 

KEVIN MCILVOY

Carson Daly

 

Fiction

 

J. ROBERT LENNON

Eleven

Marriage (Love)

Owl

Marriage (Sick)

 

ROBERT LOPEZ

Goodnight Maybe Forever

 

LUCAS SOUTHWORTH

Copycats

 

Interview

Willow Springs 75 Cover shows pink pressed flowers on rough paper.

Willow Springs 75 features prose and poetry from Dana Levin, Robert Lopez, Kathleen Flenniken, Liz Kay, J. Robert Lennon, William T. Vollmann, Cate Marvin, and more.

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Willow Springs 74

Willow Springs 74

Fall 2014

Poetry

 

JEFFREY BEAN

The Voyeur’s Gratitude

The Voyeur’s Prayers

What the Voyeur Learned

You Don’t Love the Voyeur

 

ERIC GREENWALL

2,4-D

 

ROBERT GREGORY

The Changeable Days

 

ANNA CLAIRE HODGE

Optometry Technician in Training

 

JOHN HODGENodgen

Jesus Tree

Twenty-two

 

MELISSA KWASNY

Texture of the Soul

 

DORIS LYNCH

Harvesting Crows

 

CHRISTINE ROBBINS

Poisoning rats in the back porch wall

 

ALEXANDRA TEAGUE

The Tiger Speaks

The Lady Speaks

Pox

 

ROBERT WRIGLEY

Chickadee-Doo-Dah

The Difficulty

 

Fiction

 

KIM ADDONIZIO

Intuition

 

TOM HOWARD

Bandana (Willow Springs Fiction Prize Winner)

 

Nonfiction

 

JULES OHMAN

Model Girl

 

Interview

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Willow Springs 74 features prose and poetry from Alexandra Teague, Melissa Kwasny, Jeffrey Bean, Kim Addonizio, Robert Wrigley, 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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