Willow Springs 44

Willow Springs 44

Willow Springs 44

June 1999

Poetry

JENNIFER OAKES

The Allocations of Sound
The Listener

TOM CRAWFORD

Trees
Love

PATRICIA GOEDICKE

Lion
Soul of the Instrument
Alma de Casa

ROBERT HACKETT

In a Wenatcheee Way

MICHAEL CADNUM

Winter in an Adopted City

JAMES GRABILL

Birth Ocean
What Shared Roads Glow With Private Afternoon Light?

MELISSA A. HUSEMAN

Sweet Maniacal Orchids

WILLIAM RYAN

A Word for Word

LAURIE LAMON

Pain Thinks of Helen

J. P. WHITE

Cold Beer

DENNIS SALEH

Endymion

A. ROBBINS

22 January
Untitled

TOM WAYMAN

For Bill Sutherland 
Fear Eclipsed by Distance

DENNIS HELD

Inventory

WILLARD GREENWOOD

The Grandiose Manner of Electricians

MARK SULLIVAN

Slag

ROBERT GREGORY

Why It Gets Dark
In the Century of Belly

JOSEPH MILLAR

Spanish Blues 

MARTHA ZWEIG

Facetious
Atmospherics

RICH IVES

The Other Woman
The Moment of Impact 

TOMAS O’LEARY

Hands Without Pockets
The Cosmic Pundits Praise You Utterly

Fiction

JEANNE LUTZ

Have This Wish

RUSS FRANKLIN

Gunchers

STEPHEN  SUND

Roomates

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

ELLEN ANDOLSEK

p.m.

George Garret Fiction Award

E. W. BEALS

Picking

Translation

GIL JOUANARD (translated by CARLOS REYES)

Center of Gravity
Appearing Suddenly Out of Nowhere

JOSE KOZER (translated by ORLANDO RICARDO MENES)

Kafka
I’ve Come to Call Thirteen Men

EDVARD KOCBEK (translated by SONJA KRAVANJA)

Sentence

Review

MATHEW SPAUR

More Vodou, Please
Willow Springs 44

Willow Springs 44 features poetry, prose, and translation by Patricia Goedicke, Robert Gregory, Jeanne Lutz, and more. The issue also includes Ellen Andolsek’s “p.m.,” winner of the 1999 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, E.W. Beals’s “Picking,” winner of the 1999 George Garrett Fiction Award and a review by Matthew Spaur.

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Willow Springs 19

Willow Springs 19

Willow Springs 19

Winter 1987

Poetry

JAMES DOYLEN

The Mute Swan
Icarus

ROBERT JUARROZ

Vertical Poetry – Excerpts (Translated by W.S. Merwin)

JAMES. J. MCAULEY

The Explorer
Coming and Going

JORGE TEILLIER

To Talk With The Dead
Story of the Afternoon

JOHN UNTERECKER

Ruined Bridge Seen from a Plane – theme and six variations

ROBERT WARD

Black Lucy
CAROLYN WRIGHT
Eulene’s Noche Oscura
Eulene’s Broken Lifeline 
Woman, Money, Watch, Gun
An Ordinary Evening In New Orleans – Eulene’s Significant Other Speaks   
Spectre and Emanation at JFK

Fiction

JAMES A. POPCHOCK

The Explosion
The Medicine Show

GEORGE VENN

The First Day of Summer

LESA LUDERS

Lady God

Nonfiction

HECTOR ZETA

The Imaginary Life
Willow Springs 19

Willow Springs 19 features poetry, prose, and translation by James Doyle, Robert Ward, James A. Popchock, W.S, Merwin, and more.

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Willow Springs 20

Willow Springs 20

Willow Springs 20

Spring 1987

Poetry

GILLIAN CONOLEY

Ahkmatova and Tsvetaeva  
Harvest  
Leah Callahan: 1882-1972

JEFFERY HARRISON

The Mute Swan
Inside the Fish 

ENRIQUE HUACO

Historically This Man

DAVID LEE

Bargains
Faith Tittle

MARINA TSVETAEVA (translated by Mary Jane White)

Mileposts II
RAY A. YOUNG BEAR
Quail and His Role in Agriculture

Fiction

CAROL ORLOCK

The Spoiled Child 
Shalom

DAVID SURFACE

Something About Cars

Nonfiction

LILIANE EMERY

Ouarzazate

SANDRA LOPEZ

Taking Words Out

Art

Sergio Ortiz

Photographs of Sandra Lopez’s work
Willow Springs 20

Willow Springs 20 features poetry, prose, and translation by Jeffrey Harrison, David Surface, Gillian Conoley, and more, and photographs of Sandra Lopez’s work taken by Sergio Ortiz.

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Willow Springs 22

Willow Springs 22

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

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.

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Willow Springs 25

Willow Springs 25

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

ARTHUR VOGELSANG

Drifters

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

Willow Springs 25

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 32

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
Posotive

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)
Willow Springs 32

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 93

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Willow Springs 93

Spring 2024

Poetry

MARK ANDERSON

Knowing Thyself at the Student Union Building

B. J. BUCKLEY

Woolgathering

TODD DAVIS

The Insistence of Night

RICHARD GALLAGHER

To Overcome a Fear of Heights

MARK HALLIDAY

Far and Wide

JOHN HODGEN

Silver, Mercury
The Sailor’s Grave on the Prairie

CAROL POTTER

Glass Eggs, or They like to Eat Same as You
Good God Damn

GEORGIA SAN LI

Americana on Oak Street Drive
We Eat Ugly Lionfish

LIANA ROUX

81/2 Marina
Gnash
Spring, Loring Pond

JOHN SCHNEIDER

Lac Du Flambeau

JOHN SPAULDING

Midnight Snow
The Boys Who Listen

JOSH TVDRY

Desert Nights (Middle School)

Fiction

MATTHEW BAKER

Stricken

ANDREW FURMAN

Our Sargassum Problem

Nonfiction

JENNY CATLIN

Freak

COURTNEY KERSTEN

Field Notes on Circles

Surrealist Prize Winner

MEG KELLEHER

Nokomis Groves

Interview

NANCE VAN WINCKEL

Willow Springs 93 features prose and poetry from Carol Potter, John Hodgen and more. Plus, an interview with Nance Van Winckel.

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Willow Springs 50

Willow Springs issue 50

Willow Springs 50

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

Fiction

KIM SILVEIRA WOTERBEEK

The Fur Is Feline

TOM CRAWFORD

Frank’s Story

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

GREG PAPE

Steps

George Garret Fiction Award

JODY AZZOUNI

Giant Squid in High Places

Fiction in Translation

BYRON RODRIGUEZ (translated by CARLOS REYES)

from Bestiary of Ashes

Review

ROBERT ABEL

Telling the Stories of the Disappeared
Willow Springs issue 50

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 49

Willow Springs 49

Willow Springs 49

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

Nonfiction

RICHARD MORGAN

Before the Rain Comes

Fiction in Translation

DORIS DORRIE (translated by GUSTAV A. RICHAR)

Am I Beautiful?

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

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

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Willow Springs 48

Willow Springs Issue 48

Willow Springs 48

June 2001

Poetry

JULIANA BAGGOTT

The Birds and the Bees: What to Tell the Children

KURT BROWN

America 1968

JAMES GRABILL

At the Ballpark of Exchanged Gnosis

MICHAEL STRELOW

Licking Statues

DARA WIER

Day After a Funeral
A Walk in Dubuque 

JIM HEYNEN

Maniacs and Idiots

CAROL JAMES BANG

Psalm V: Migration

DENNIS SALEH

Typefoundry

MARK HALLIDAY

Surely
Shelved

DENISE DUHAMEL

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Kenneth Koch

LEX RUNCIMAN

Pink

TOM CRAWFORD

Higgins Bar & Grill
Companion to a Loon 
Wu Wei

PAISLEY REKDAL

Scientific American and St. Theresa: Ecstasy

JEFFERY THOMSON

Postscript

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL

Florida, State of Imagination

GEORGE LOONEY

Treatise on the Meliorative Function of Ruin

MELISSA KWASNY

Black Geese in the Honey-Stubble of Fields Near Spring
Letter on My Last Sheet of Paper  

Fiction

WILLIAM RYAN

Stunt

MICHAEL DOWNS

Man Kills Wife, Two Dogs

NICOLE LOUISE REID

(Re)Collection

PAGE HODGEN

Displacement

Nonfiction

TOM SAYA

Meditations on a Mask

George Garrett Fiction Award

MICHAEL HOLLISTER

Holywood
Willow Springs Issue 48

Willow Springs 48 features poetry and prose by Tom Crawford, Melissa Kwasny, Mark Halliday, Page Hodgen, and more. The issue also includes Lisa Rhodes’ “Wrecked,” “Ugly Poem,” and “New Poem,” winner of the 2001 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Michael Hollister’s “Holywood,” winner of the 2001 George Garrett Fiction Award.

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