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Willow Springs 16

Summer 1985

Poetry

AGHA SHAHID ALI

Homage to Faiz Ahmed Faiz

KAREN CHASE

Aspects of Luck

TU FU

Late Thoughts I
Late Thoughts II
Lament for Ch’ien T’ao
An Ancient Battlefield
The Journey North

FLORENCE GREATHOUSE

Touring

SAM HAMILL

Cloistered
‘True Illumination is Habitude’
Scrutability
At Rexroth’s Grave

CHRISTIAN KNOELLER

The Morning Fire

LOUISE LABE

Sonnet 3
Sonnet 8
Sonnet 9
Sonnet 10
Sonnet 12

ROBERT LIEIZ

Turncoat
Stage Fright

KERRY PAUL MAY

The Descent

WALTER MCDONALD

Driving Alone at Night Through Hardscrabble
On the Gunnison
First Freeze

DOREN ROBBINS

On Crete
Homage to Yuang-Hung-Tao
Act Like a Monkey, Make an Ass Out of Yourself

ADEN ROSS

Daywatch

Fiction

J. ANTHONY CONNOR

Raven
Jacob’s Ladder

URSULA HEGI

To the Gate

JOHN KEEBLE

The Ghost Versions (excerpt)

VINCENT PASSARO

Neruda and the Mets

Nonfiction

BRIAN HARRIS

Language and the Mirror in King Lear

Photography

ROBERT ALBERT

In Rehearsal

Willow Springs 16 features poetry and prose by Sam Hamill, John Keeble, Karen Chase, Agha Shahid Ali, and more, and photography from Robert Albert.

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Willow Springs 12

Spring 1983

Poetry

SANDOR CSOORI

Someone Comforts Me With A Poem
A Poem for Diogenes
Gravediggers with Cigarettes

COLM FLYNN

The Queen of the Snowfields
The House Of Fuschia
The Taste Of Strawberries
The Fall

KEN GERNER

Dithyramb

MARC HARSHMAN

Snow Company

MARK HUDSON

Under Snaefellsjokull

DAVID LEE

Mean

PAULA MEEHAN

The Garden Of The Sleeping Poet
Once Again

LYNNE SLAUGHTER

Bloodstream
A Fertility Ceremony
The Fifth Stage Of Sleep

Fiction

JOANNE MESCHERY

from In Transit (Excerpt)

Nonfiction

TONY CAFFERKY

from !Be’an’Been! (excerpt)

KELLY CHERRY

Writing About Running

Drama

JOHN CIARDINI

Willow Springs 12 features poetry and prose by Sandor Csoori, Colm Flynn, Lynne Slaughter, Kelly Cherry, and more, and an interview with John Ciardini.

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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
V
X
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

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

Fall 1981

Poetry

LEE BASSETT

When St. Cecelia Gets Hot
Hello

NAOMI CLARK

Table
Lost

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

Willow Springs 09 features poetry and prose by Naomi Clark, Jim Heynen, Bill Ransom, Mark Halperin, and more.

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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”

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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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

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

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

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

ALAN HOEY

Star Gazing: Letter to a New Hampshire
Friend

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)

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

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)

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

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

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 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

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 16

Summer 1985

Poetry

Aspects of Luck

Late Thoughts I Late Thoughts IILament for Ch’ien T’ao An Ancient BattlefieldThe Journey North

Touring

Cloistered‘True Illumination is Habitude’ Scrutability At Rexroth’s Grave

The Morning Fire

LOUISE LABE

Sonnet 3Sonnet 8Sonnet 9Sonnet 10Sonnet 12

TurncoatStage Fright

The Descent

Driving Alone at Night Through HardscrabbleOn the GunnisonFirst Freeze

On CreteHomage to Yuang-Hung-Tao Act Like a Monkey, Make an Ass Out of Yourself

Daywatch

Fiction

RavenJacob’s Ladder

To the Gate

The Ghost Versions (excerpt)

Neruda and the Mets

Nonfiction

Language and the Mirror in King Lear

Photography

In Rehearsal

Willow Springs 12

Spring 1983

Poetry

Someone Comforts Me With A Poem A Poem for Diogenes Gravediggers with Cigarettes

The Queen of the SnowfieldsThe House Of Fuschia The Taste Of Strawberries The Fall

Dithyramb

Snow Company

Under Snaefellsjokull

Mean

PAULA MEEHAN

The Garden Of The Sleeping PoetOnce Again

BloodstreamA Fertility CeremonyThe Fifth Stage Of Sleep

Fiction

from In Transit (Excerpt)

Nonfiction

from !Be’an’Been! (excerpt)

Writing About Running

Drama

Willow Springs 10

Spring 1982

Poetry

Selections of A Poem in Progress

Mother Makeyeva

Atlantic CirclePostcard for Michael

Ground Zero

Hold OutFrom Connecticut

In the Mad House

Ode & LamentationTo Aphrodite, Naked in the Snow

In Memory of Yury Galanskov

Directions for Getting to Our HouseHow They Tell It in Damascus

III IVVXXI

Love Charm

A Human Smile

Letter to Koladoghbe changes of season punishment put in perspectiveballad of travelling Anna

How My Brother Came To Love Lenin

Sparrow HillsIn the ForestWinter NightAfter the Break

BirthMelancholyEvening SongThe HeartThe Beautiful City

The Hermit

Fiction

The Young Man and the Older Woman

Nonfiction

The Uneasiness of Autobiography

Notions: Toward the Redefinition of Irish Culture Or Circling Round an Obsession

Willow Springs 09

Fall 1981

Poetry

When St. Cecelia Gets HotHello

TableLost

North of Steptoe ButteCamping at Crazy Woman CreekEscuderoBeadwork: Mille Lacs

On Stars: The Sempiternal Consciousness

Astonishing TasksWhen There Is No NeedIn The Fall WindHer Changing

Star Gazing: Letter to a New HampshireFriend

The Real Estate

Northern Lights The Compass FlowerLeaf Paths

Fiction

Singleton: Chapter 20

Late Thoughts I
Late Thoughts II
Lament for Ch’ien T’ao
An Ancient Battlefield
The Journey North

Cloistered
‘True Illumination is Habitude’
Scrutability
At Rexroth’s Grave

Sonnet 3
Sonnet 8
Sonnet 9
Sonnet 10
Sonnet 12

Turncoat
Stage Fright

Driving Alone at Night Through Hardscrabble
On the Gunnison
First Freeze

On Crete
Homage to Yuang-Hung-Tao
Act Like a Monkey, Make an Ass Out of Yourself

Raven
Jacob’s Ladder

Someone Comforts Me With A Poem
A Poem for Diogenes
Gravediggers with Cigarettes

The Queen of the Snowfields
The House Of Fuschia
The Taste Of Strawberries
The Fall

The Garden Of The Sleeping Poet
Once Again

Bloodstream
A Fertility Ceremony
The Fifth Stage Of Sleep

Atlantic Circle
Postcard for Michael

Hold Out
From Connecticut

Ode & Lamentation
To Aphrodite, Naked in the Snow

Directions for Getting to Our House
How They Tell It in Damascus

III
IV
V
X
XI

Letter to Koladoghbe
changes of season
punishment put in perspective
ballad of travelling Anna

Sparrow Hills
In the Forest
Winter Night
After the Break

Birth
Melancholy
Evening Song
The Heart
The Beautiful City

When St. Cecelia Gets Hot
Hello

Table
Lost

North of Steptoe Butte
Camping at Crazy Woman Creek
Escudero
Beadwork: Mille Lacs

Astonishing Tasks
When There Is No Need
In The Fall Wind
Her Changing

Star Gazing: Letter to a New Hampshire
Friend

Northern Lights
The Compass Flower
Leaf Paths

The Ungrowing
Bidding
In Which the Librarian Writes a Letter to the Editor
Uncle Jack’s Riddle

Dhobi at the Laundromat
Dhobi’s Inheritance
A Severe Drought
A Cross-Cultural Survey
Prison Reformed
What is Compassion to a Fish

Helen and Menelaus Return
Vertumnus and Pomona

The Swallows of Mytilene
Second Big Hit
Walking Nude in Phaleron

You Must Go Down
The Mine
Sun of Death

To the Deaf Ears of the Generations
Generations
Behind the White Net of Midday
San Michele

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

The Heart of Afternoon
Thirst

Hi-Fi
For English 210 at Cheney
Willow Campaign

Barn Raising
Losing Her First Child

Morning Prayer
Four Letters to Harry: The Name of the Star

Canticle for Her Bedroom
Two White Doves
Adam’s Poems

Bangla Desh—I
Bangla Desh—II
Bangla Desh—III
Elegy for Hassan Nair

Mussel Eating: Third Beach
Grandmother, Milking
Finding The Hanged
Chinaman’s Grave, South Bend

Grandfathers
Poem for a Beautiful Woman
Search for a Safe Myth

Senbei Rolling
Definitions of the Word Gout
Teething Pain

Caledonia
Believable Dreams
Patterning

At the Aquarium
Giving Up Writing

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)

It Has Come to This
On the First Day of Spring

A Dry Day with Winds
The Mended Rainbow

For You
Swollen Places, Summer Scars
Moral

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Astrologer