Willow Springs 07

Willow Springs 07

Fall 1980

Poetry

 

DICK BAKKEN

Canticle for Her Bedroom 

Two White Doves 

Adam’s Poems

 

JACK BARRACK

The Daughters of Galileo and Milton

 

MARY CROW

The Ringing in Our Ears

 

PHILLIP EATON

Prayer

 

FAIZ AHMED FAIZ

Bangla Desh—I

Bangla Desh—II

Bangla Desh—III

Elegy for Hassan Nair

 

SAMUEL GREEN

Mussel Eating: Third Beach

Grandmother, Milking 

Finding The Hanged 

Chinaman’s Grave, South Bend

 

MATTHEW HANSEN

Grandfathers 

Poem for a Beautiful Woman 

Search for a Safe Myth

 

TINA KOYAMA

Senbei Rolling

Definitions of the Word Gout 

Teething Pain

 

COLLEEN MCELROY

Caledonia 

Believable Dreams 

Patterning

 

MARY ANN MCFADDEN

At the Aquarium

Giving Up Writing

 

TIM MCNULTY

Typing a Poem for a Friend, I Stop and Listen to a Woodpecker Accompanying Me From a

Snag Across the Creek

The River (I)

The River (II)

 

MARK RUBIN

It Has Come to This 

On the First Day of Spring

 

ROBIN SKELTON

Kinship

 

CAROL SOWARDS

A Dry Day with Winds 

The Mended Rainbow

 

GAIL WHITE

St. Francis Xavier Attempts to Convert the Zen Buddhists

 

Fiction

 

SUSANNE SHAPHREN

Unburied

 

SARA VOGAN

China Across The Bay

 

Nonfiction

 

SAM HAMILL

Three Chapbooks (Review)

 

Interview

COLLEEN MCELROY

issue07

Willow Springs 07 features poetry and prose by Samuel Green, Matthew Hansen, Susanne Shaphren, Sam Hamill, and more, and an interview with Colleen McElroy.

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Willow Springs 06

Willow Springs 06

Spring 1980

Poetry

 

MICHAEL BOWDEN

Winter Count

 

OLGA BROUMAS

For You 

Swollen Places, Summer Scars 

Moral

 

FRED CHAPPELL

Page 

Astrologer

 

REGINA DECORMIER-SHEKERJIAN

Shepherd on the Hill

 

MADELINE DEFREES

For Paul Mariana Bringing Electric Broom and Garden Produce  

Framing the Outdoors

 

KEN GERNER

The Sound’s Edge

Shadows

Wild Geese Flying on Their Backs

 

SAM HAMILL

A Cold Fire

Canto Amor

 

PAUL HANSEN

Two Poems on Recent German History

 

EDWARD HARKNESS

Some Weeds that Lead to a Place on the Naches Where I Aimlessly Flip Small Stones

 

DENISE LEVERTOV

She and the Muse

Improbable Truth

 

ANTONIO MACHADO

Deep Song

 

RICHARD MAC LEAN

Low Tide

 

THOMAS MCGARTH

Another Hitchhiker Says

Ghost Talk 

At the Edge of the Glacier

 

SAMMY MCLEAN

Staring into the Fireplace 

Listening to Donald Byrd and Remembering Lines by John L’Heureux

 

OCTAVIO PAZ

At sight of a bird 

Words take the shape of a duststorm 

The grove

 

JEAN PEROL

Boeing 

The Clasped Hand

Morning Mirror

 

CAROLANN RUSSELL

What I Said

Reunion

 

MARTIN SCHNEIDER

The Boy, the Butcher, and the Blind Perch

 

DAVID STARK

At Chitina, Alaska

 

ALAN STEPHENS

Anniversary: The White Boat   

 

CHERYL VAN DYKE

Eucharist 

Diana  

 

KATHY WEBB

Winter Eve  

 

KATHLEENE WEST

The Sinking of Hood Canal Bridge, February 13, 1979  

A New Decade: Watching the Digital Clock Advance towards Midnight  

The Road to Erendira

 

Nonfiction

 

CAROLYN KIZER

Kenneth Hanson and Han Yü (review)

 

Art

DANA WYLDER
        Gallery (Seven Paintings)

issue06

Willow Springs 06 features poetry and prose by Madeline Defrees, Ken Gerner, Carol Ann Russell, Carolyn Kizer, and more, and art from Dana Wylder.

 

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Willow Springs 05

Willow Springs 05

Fall 1979

Poetry

 

LEE BASSET

Field

Factory

Fishing

Farm

 

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Ode Written In 1966  

The Unending Gift 

New England, 1967

 

ANNE CHERNER

Gold Mining in Australia 1895  

His Story

 

M. R. DOTY

In Clinton, Iowa 

River

 

SAM HAMILL

Gnostology

 

KENNETH O. HANSON

Autumn Flowers

In Exile

Bangkok  

Walking Through Kyoto

 

ROBERT HEDIN

The Bombing of Dresden

 

ART HOMER

Following Morning from the Waterfront West

 

MARK HUDSON

Dewato

 

SARA KIRSCH

Before The Sun Rises

Day In Moscow  

Georgia, Photographs  

from IKE: a matter of geology

 

MICHAEL KNOLL

The Last Supper

The Interrogations 

To My Sister, From The 27th Floor

 

W. M. RANSOM

Under the Clouded Moon  

Dreaming Us Lost in the Mountains   

For My Daughter Who Wants to be an Astronaut  

Trillium

 

TOM REA

La Bouillotte

The Admiral’s Women 

Young Women Picking Fruit

 

LAUREN MOSELEY

The Great Chain of Being

 

LUIS ROSALES

That Which You Call “Love Me”

 

Fiction

 

MICHAEL KNOLL

Ménage

 

TOBIAS WOLFF

Poaching

 

Nonfiction

 

SAM HAMILL

Clone Poetry (essay)

 

JAMES J. MCAULEY

Three Chapbooks (review)

 

Art

LYNN C. JACOX

        Gallery (photographs)

issue05

Willow Springs 05 featuring poetry and prose by Jorge Luis Borges, W.M. Ransom, Tobias Wolff, M.R. Doty, and more, and art from Lynn C. Jacox.

 

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Willow Springs 04

Willow Springs 04

Spring 1979

Poetry

 

TIM CALHOUN

A Band of Poets Desert from the Red Army, Forever

 

DAVID CITINO

Already, Another Boy, Snow

 

WESLI COURT

The Curse of Death

 

ANN DARR

The Birds for Lucie 

Dear Maestro  

Riding with the Fireworks

 

GAYLE ELEN HARVEY

Joan of Arc  

A River is Breaking Up

 

ARTHUR WINFIELD KNIGHT

Vanessa’s Leaving

The Mother-in-Law

 

L. LEIR

I Know Because of Her the Moment

 

CARL MAYFIELD

Hot Stuff

 

DAVID R. MEMMOTT

At the Battery Russell After the Park is Closed

 

JUDITH NEEDLE

Seacoast – Oil on Canvas  

Churchyard at the Edge of the Moor

 

CARLOS REYES

An Edited Version of the Film “All that Trembles is Not the Earth”

 

JOHN ROTHFORK

Shelter 

Manifest Destiny in a Winnebago Motor Home

 

CHARLES TAYLOR

The Man Who Gave Up His Greatness

 

HENRY C. TIMMS

Patroclus 

The Vision of Aeneas

 

ROBERT S. WHISLER

Now the nuns are walking in their convent garden…

 

Fiction

 

JOHN KEEBLE

from Yellow Fish Chapter 8

 

DAN LYTLE

The Other Side of the Buffalo

 

CHRISTOPHER MECKEL

Ucht   

 

SAM HAMILL

Clone Poetry (essay) 

 

JAMES J. MCAULEY

Three Chapbooks (review)

 

Art

 

JAMES FRANCIS LA VIGNE

Gallery (photographs)

 

Interview

ANN DARR

issue04

Willow Springs 04 featuring poetry and prose by James J. McAuley, Dan Lytle, Carl Mayfield, Gayle Elen Harvey, and more, art from James Francis La Vigne and an interview with Ann Darr.

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Willow Springs 03

Willow Springs 03

Fall 1978

Poetry

 

WENDY TYG BATTIN

Maya on Cape Cod

Maya at Autumn Equinox

Persophone Returns to Hades

 

LAURIE BLAUNER

The Miner

 

JEANNE DOWD

Alaskan Whaling

 

QUINTON DUVAL

It’s Morning

loaded with grain

 

TONEY HANKE

The Angel of the Adige

 

CYNTHIA HOGUE

The Message

The sense of being watched by more than we can see

 

PHYLLIS JANOWITZ

Tamar & Son

 

ROBERT W. JOHNSON

The Secret Name 

Mundane Metamorphosis

 

L. LEIER

November

Carols

 

RODGER MOODY

Your Eyes Your Tongue Your Baptist Church

 

WILLIAM OLSEN

Near Split Rock Lighthouse

 

RABBIT PETERSON

Scorpio is a Water Sign

 

FRANK ROSSINI

Dog

 

FRANZ SCHNEIDER

Summer Insomnia

December

 

ORRIN NC WANG

1953 Awake at George Fox University  

After the Communist Takeover of the Mainland 

At Tzu Lan Temple

 

ROBERT WRIGLEY

Water

 

Fiction

 

BARBRA BRIANT

The Strength of Women

 

DICK CASE

Mountain Mountain

 

RANSOM JEFFERY

Wake

 

MICHAEL  KREKORIN

        The Fish Didn’t Know What It Was

 

BOB WILSON

         Piedmont Love

 

PETER WOOLSON

        That Damn Cass

 

Art

 

RUBIN TREJO

Gallery (Photos by Robert Lloyd)

 

Interview

RUBIN TREJO

issue03

Willow Springs 03 featuring poetry and prose by Quinton Duval, Barbara Briant, Rodger Moody, Jeanne Dowd, and more, and art and an interview with Ruben Trejo.

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Willow Springs 02

Willow Springs 02

Fall 1978

Poetry

 

GEOFF PETERSON

Destroyer (a complete kit)

 

JERRY KRAFT

When You Return To The Beach

 

JAMES J. MCAULEY

The Exile on Natural History

 

RODGER MOODY

Backroads

 

MILDRED WESTON

Landscape

 

A.V RAFFERTY

Harry Dead

 

R. A. LARSON

You Were Never Competent In Water

Lesson on the Wind

 

DENNIS ‘NFE BALOGU

Lagos

 

THOMAS VERSTEEG

The Lone Survivor of World War III Discovers a Surprise

 

R. FREDRIK NELSON

A.B.C

 

BRUCE SEVERY

The Guy on the End is Jesse James  

Rosenthal Glove Mold, 1920

 

RON MCFARLAND

Trail of Tears

 

DAVID JAUSS

The Poet’s Lament in Summer

 

NELLJEAN MCCONEGHEY

The Poet to Ssu Ma Chien  

“…all these are fully lawful dogs…”

 

JACK R. HARDING

“The Heart of Darkness”

 

BARBRA BRIANT

At the Sailboat  

On the Way to a Third Wedding

 

BRIAN SEAGRAVE

Final Instructions to a Friend

 

LEE ALKIRE

Diaspora

 

Fiction

 

WILLIAM HUDSON

Acknowledgments

 

GEOFF PETERSON

Avalanche is Band

 

RANDY NORD

Matins Dishabille

 

Translation

 

ALMUT NIERENTZ-MCAULEY

Hunting Fish with Cormorants in China  

Ballad of the External Life

 

FRANCOISE KUESTER

The Maxims of Poetry

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Willow Springs 02 features prose, poetry, and translated works.

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Willow Springs 01

Willow Springs 01

Fall 1977

Poetry

 

JAMES BEETEM

Winnowing The Klickitat Barge

Once Again The Bronze Girl

 

GEORGE VENN

Homily in Palouse

Tomato

 

DAN VAUGHN

The Devil Came

The Pleasant But Curious Children

 

JAMES RAWLEY

Halloween Service

Sermon With Metaphors

 

JOHN CIARDI

Numbers

 

GLEN FARMER

The Principle Square Root of Two

Pi

 

JOHN C. NACCARATO

Jerusalem

 

RICH IVES

Old Cotter

 

PHYLLIS JANOWITZ

Change of Address

Pickling

 

JONELL DUQUETTE KELSEY

Putting By

 

NANCE VAN WINCKEL

The Drought

 

JAMES MASAO MITSUI

For the Ballerina in the Mojave Desert Who Has Painted Her Own Audience on a

Canvas and Stretched It, Facing the Stage

 

GEOFF PETERSON

Catolico

American Review

 

ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON

November

 

BRIAN C. DEROSHIA

Leather Apron

 

GEORGE THOMAS

The Better View

Detail From a Combat Flight

 

CHRIS JACOX

Fire in Early Morning

 

ANITA TAYLOR JACKSON

Ash Can City

 

COLLEEN J. MCELROY

Out Here Even Crows Commit Suicide

Queen of the Ebony Isles

 

INGE WILLIAMS

Juvenile Detention

 

RANDY NORD

        Slug Bait

 

Fiction

 

CAROLE MILLS

Clouds and Cornpatch Monsters (George Garrett Prize Winner)

 

RICHARD BALDASTY

Hello Madness, Folie Adieu

 

GEORGE GARRETT

Picture a Horseman Riding North (Excerpted from work-in-progress, James and Elizabeth)

 

RANDY NORD

        Slug Bait

 

JAMES BOND

        Whisky Sunday Refusal

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Featuring poetry and prose by Nance Van Winckel, James Bond, Carole Mills, James Rawley, and more.

Willow Springs 57

Willow Springs 57

Spring 2006

Poetry

 

MITCH ROBERSON

Deathbed

 

MICHAEL MCGRIFF

That My Father Does Not Read

 

REBECCA MCGOLDRICK

No Room to Grow Up Anymore Here

 

DAVE NIELSON 

Working a Turkey Pen

My Daughter’s Favorite Bedtime Story

 

JACK MARTIN

Weldon Kees and the Piano 

 

ED BOTTS

Grass on a Postcard

 

SHANNON AMIDON

Why Sarah Left the Fold

Stridor

Sarah Takes a Night Off

 

MIL NORMAN-RISCH

Turnip 

 

ROBYN ANSPACH 

Miriam speaks from her seven days in the desert alone

 

JASON SCHOSSLER

Matinee

 

JANICE DVORAK

Hospice Nurse at the Pick ‘n Save

 

ZOË RYDER WHITE

A Length of Africa

 

RUSSELL THORBURN

Neda, After Falling Asleep While Bathing, Dreams of Her Wedding to a Jihadist

 

KATHERINE SONIAT

The Lamb

 

JEFFREY SCHULTZ

Sunset at the Meat Packing Plant with Shoes Strung Over an Electrical Wire

 

DENNIS HELD 

Forward! 

 

PAUL GUEST 

Marksman

Anxiety

 

J. P. WHITE

History

Fiction

 

RONALD F. CURRIE, JR.

One Play

 

TRACI BRINK CUMBAY

A Lost Man Can’t Sing Home

 

DREW PERRY

The Histories Right Now

 

Interview

issue57

Willow Springs 57 features poetry and prose by Mitch Roberson, Rebecca McGoldrick, Ronald F. Currie, Jr., Shannon Amidon, and more, and interviews with Robert Bly and Louis B. Jones.

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Willow Springs 56

Willow Springs 56

Fall 2005

Poetry

 

AARON DEROSA

Sparrow Ethics

 

JIM DANIELS 

Brain Freeze

 

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

Cofee and Profiteroles at the Nth Cafe

 

BETH COOLEY

Nativity

 

GEORGE LOONEY

The Burning Wheel Put Out by Its Own Turning

 

MIGUEL MURPHY

Monologue of the Last Fear

Cherries 

 

DANIELLE HANSON

The bird eats a building

 

MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN

Hand 

Lucky Dreams 

 

BETH GYLYS

Evensong

 

ROBERT GREGORY

No Rain

 

RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE

Loot

 

FRED YANNANTUONO

The Return of Madame La Hoya

 

MARCO A DOMÍNGUEZ

Quiet Swell

 

JOANNA OSBORNE

Jackson Pollock’s “Moby Dick” Digested Through Four Stomachs of a Cow

 

ED SKOOG 

Test Plate Displaying 12 Different Patterns, circa 1830, Eduard Honoré Manufactory

 

A.J. RATHBUN

The Heart’s France Is Not Always Equal

 

SAMANTHA MINEO MYERS

After Giving Up Meat

 

D.S. BUTTERWORTH

Ore 

 

DABID LEE

Cold—Star—Wind Sonata

 

Fiction

 

STACEY RICHTER

The Land of Pain

 

KIRSTEN SUNDBERG LUNSTRUM

The Drowning

 

GEORGE MCCORMIK

DC

 

Nonfiction

 

DAVID MCGLYNN

Climb 

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

 

DAVID MCCOMBS

Rosetti in 1869

George Garret Fiction Award

 

EMILY M. DANFORTH

Everything That Much Harder

AWP Intro Award Winners

 

Poetry

MICHELE BATTISTE

Like a Sine Curve

 

Fiction

JOHN T. MEDEIROS

           from Self, Divided

 

Interview

issue56

Willow Springs 56 features poetry and prose by Stacey Richter, David McGlynn, Jim Daniels, Danielle Hanson, and more. The issue also includes David McCombs’ “Rosetti in 1869,” winner of the 2005 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Emily M. Danforth’s “Everything That Much Harder,” winner of the 2005 George Garrett Fiction Award and an interview with Gerald Stern and Lawrence Sutin.

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Willow Springs 55

Willow Springs 55

Spring 2005

Poetry

 

GEORGE GOTT

Koyoku #033

 

MIGUEL MURPHY

Chico the Child-Eater

 

ERICA KEIKO ISERI

In the Permafrost Tunnel

 

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

The Twilight of the Dogs

 

SHANE SEELY

For a Burial

 

J. ELY SHIPLEY

Man at a Bar

 

 

MICHAEL CLARK

Techniques of Avalance Survival 

 

JOSEPH MILLAR

Throne

 

MIKE DOCKINS

Spring Equinox

Elegy for My God-Damned Free Time

 

NICK DEFORD 

Hope

 

LOUIS JENKINS

Canaries

 

JOHN W. HORTON

Buffalo Nickels

 

TIMOTHY P. KELLY

Pange Lingua, Forty Hours, St. Angela Merici Boys Choir, 1963

 

PAUL AGOSTINO

Islands of Repose

 

LAURIE LAMON

Pain Thinks of the Angel

 

GERRY LAFEMINA

Elegy for my 34th Year

 

WILLIAM NOTTER

Worship

 

IVER ARNEGARD

Blizzard on the Rez

 

MATTHEW FRANK 

Collection

 

STEPHANIE LENOX

Longest Sneezing Fit, Day 977

 

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL

D.W. Griffith, December, 1911

from the last century

sit in the dark with me

 

GEORGIA TIFFANY

Meditation on a Ceiling Fan

 

ANDREW KOZMA

Quarantine

 

Fiction

 

DEB OLIN UNFERTH

Egg

 

EVA MARIE GINSBURG

The Kettle

 

ROBERT LOPEZ

Bleeders

Maybe the Love of a One-Lunged Woman

 

IMAD RAHMAN

All Roads Lead to Flesh and Bone

 

Interview

issue55

Willow Springs 55 features poetry and prose by Jesse Lee Kercheval, Robert Lopez, Michael Heffernan, Miguel Murphy, and more, and an interview with Lan Samantha Chang.

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