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

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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 HOGUEARTHUR WINFIELD KNIGHT

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

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 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

TOMAZ ŠALAMUN (translated from Slovene by Michael Biggins)

The Cross
The Boat

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 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

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.

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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

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 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 92

Fall 2023

Poetry

ROY BENTLEY

If the Physics of Falling Is an Allegory for Existence

SARA BURGE

Sexy Fish
Harry Styles Is the Way

HANNAH DIERDORFF

Eve Speaks of Her American Childhood

DAVID KIRBY

It’s a Long Way to Tipperary

KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY

Cloud Report 1/24/23
Cloud Report 2/9/23
Cloud Report 3/13/23

MICHAEL MCGRIFF

Low-Tide Sketch
Meditation at 7 Devils Wayside
Wallowa
Wind Advisory in Effect

DOUG RAMSPECK

Lessons in Mud

ANNA TOMLISON

Ghost Town

Julie Marie Wade

What Is Far From Heaven? $800
What Is Rear Window? $1000

GISSELLE YEPES

for when our blood runs motherless
we do not live where we from

Poetry in Translation

HEO NANSEOLHEON (허난설헌)
TRANSLATED BY SUPHIL LEE PARK

Love Song

KIM SAMUIDANG (金三宜堂)
TRANSLATED BY SUPHIL LEE PARK

Already Noon
Wino’s Song

Fiction

CÉCILE BARLIER

Claudine

JEAN-MARC DUPLANTIER

Quiet Men

BILL GAYTHWAITE

If You Only Knew

TERESA MILBRODT

Coffee with Werewolves

GREG SCHUTZ

Not for Nothing

Nonfiction

SUSAN MOREHOUSE

Mother-Cicada

CODY SMITH

Walking to the Mailbox Holding My Daughter’s Hand

Interview

MOLLY GILES

Willow Springs 92 features prose and poetry from Carol Potter, John Hodgen and more. Plus, an interview with Nance Van Winckel.

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Willow Springs 27

Winter 1991

Poetry

MICHAEL ATKINSON

Teaching Pigs to Pray

ANGELA BALL

Keats in Rome
A New Exile Talks of His Country

MICHAEL CADNUM

Web
Nine-Month Drought

CHRISTOPHER DAVIS

In Effigy

DIANE GLANCY

Hard to Give Up
An Anchor in the Basis of the Mind

CHRISTOPHER HOWELL

Refusing to Rhyme
Everyday Dramatics: An Historical Tale
Out of the Body

ROLF JACOBSEN (translated by ROBERT HEDIN)

Antenna-Forest
Aviation
The May Moon
Metro

JOANNE LOWERY

Once I Thought of Rain Twice
I Imagine a Lady
It’s Obvious

SHU TING (translated by CAROLYN KIZER)

It’s Obvious

JUDITH SKILLMAN

Under Zeus

WILLIAM STAFFORD

A Proposition
Influential Writers

DABNEY STUART

Holding My Own

Fiction

ANDY CROCKETT

The Long Pose

CHRIS OFFUTT

Horseweed

Essay

TOM HANSEN

The New Old Imagination

Art

NAN PFEIFFER-TOWNER

Willow Springs 27 features poetry, prose, and translation by Michael Atkinson, Angela Ball, Chris Offutt, Christopher Howell, and more, and featuring art from Nan Pfeiffer-Towner.

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Willow Springs 92

Fall 2023

Poetry

ROY BENTLEY

If the Physics of Falling Is an Allegory for Existence

SARA BURGE

Sexy Fish

Harry Styles Is the Way

HANNAH DIERDORFF

Eve Speaks of Her American Childhood

DAVID KIRBY

It's a Long Way to Tipperary

KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY

Cloud Report 1/24/23

Cloud Report 2/9/23

Cloud Report 3/13/23

MICHAEL MCGRIFF

Low-Tide Sketch

Meditation at 7 Devils Wayside

Wallowa

Wind Advisory in Effect

DOUG RAMSPECK

Lessons in Mud

ANNA TOMLISON

Ghost Town

Julie Marie Wade

What Is Far From Heaven? $800

What Is Rear Window? $1000

GISSELLE YEPES

for when our blood runs motherless

we do not live where we from

Poetry in Translation

HEO NANSEOLHEON (허난설헌)

TRANSLATED BY SUPHIL LEE PARK

Love Song

KIM SAMUIDANG (金三宜堂)

TRANSLATED BY SUPHIL LEE PARK

Already Noon

Wino's Song

Fiction

CÉCILE BARLIER

Claudine

JEAN-MARC DUPLANTIER

Quiet Men

BILL GAYTHWAITE

If You Only Knew

TERESA MILBRODT

Coffee with Werewolves

GREG SCHUTZ

Not for Nothing

Nonfiction

SUSAN MOREHOUSE

Mother-Cicada

CODY SMITH

Walking to the Mailbox Holding My Daughter's Hand

Interview

MOLLY GILES

Willow Springs 92 features prose and poetry from Sara Burge, Bill Gaythwaite and more. Plus, an interview with Molly Giles.

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Willow Springs 91

Winter 2023

Poetry

EMMA AYLOR

Self-Portrait as Miniature with Mica Overlays

BRUCE BOND

in conversation with David Keplinger

Note Left at the Far End of the Street

Note Left in an Echo of the Note Before

KERRY JAMES EVANS

Casserole Island

Mississippi Snow

RAY GONZALEZ

La Frontera

HENRIETTA GOODMAN

The Repetitive Bird

HEIKKI HUOTARI

How the Mayfly Got Its Megaphone 2

JENNY IRISH

Lupine in Jardin des Plantes

DAVID KEPLINGER

in conversation with Bruce Bond

Note Left on the Back of an Antique Mirror

Note Left in the Hubble Telescope, 1990

REBECCA LILLY

Lights Out

JULIA MCDANIEL

On a Walk with My Beloved, We Pass a Gingko

Eulogy for a Summer Evening

SANDRA MCPHERSON

The Minerals We Are Made of Are Beautiful

Dental Music

LIS SANCHEZ

Manuél Sánchez. Seaquake

ADAM SCHEFFLER

Advice from a Dog

RICHARD SPILMAN

Island of the Beginning and the End

Tennis with Gulls

KAREEM TAYYAR

Request

MARC VINCENZ

Fire Tattoo

RANDALL WATSON

The Future of Nostalgia

Little League

Losing the Self

J. P. WHITE

Fig & Elephant

Directions in the Northeast Kingdom to a Stand of Wild Apple Trees

There’s a Problem in the Third Act

Poetry in Translation

ANZHELINA POLONSKAYA

TRANSLATED BY ANDREW WACHTEL

Стихи войны

War Poem

Fiction

PAUL FARWELL

Meet Me at the Alacaster

GARY FINCKE

From the Heart

MADISON JOZEFIAK

A Tour of the Mural at the Merari Public Library

JEFFREY J. HIGA

The Boy, the Carpenter, and the Risen

BEN MILLER

A Slush Lover’s Homily

Nonfiction

CAROLINE CHAVATEL

American Museum

Interview

BRANDON HOBSON

Willow Springs 91 features prose and poetry from Bruce Bond, David Keplinger, and more. Plus, an interview with Brandon Hobson.

Willow Springs 90

Fall 2022

Poetry

HUSSAIN AHMED

Myth

Planet

Unmarked

RASHA ALDUWAISAN

Confession

DAVID AXELROD

Conversation in the Mountains

Twenty Degrees of Declination

Into the Dark

NICOLE V BASTA

and thank every hour

prayer

DENVER BUTSON

from The Alibis of Scarecrows

rumors

from study guide (to the unofficial history of knife throwers)

“If you are lost”

“Maybe this road”

ARAN DONOVAN

After Rain

KINDALL FREDRICKS

Are You There God? It’s Me, That Bitch You Gave Lopsided Boobs and Anxiety

JAMES GRABILL

The Queen Joins the Banquet

JULIANA GRAY

Dementia

TOM MCCAULEY

to the active galactic nuclei

JOAN MURRAY

To Appreciate Squirrels

MATTHEW NIENOW

Getting Off Antidepressants

TRIIN PAJA

Etiolate

Summoning

The Early Hours

AMANDA MARET SCHARF

Sirius A

EMILY SCHULTEN

Dismantling

Motels We Stay in While Trying to Get Pregnant: The Gables

MELISSA STUDDARD

Bedazzling the Hummus

ELIZABETH TANNEN

Liz Phair, fifteen weeks

Riddle, six weeks

FRITZ WARD

from Born

“I left this page blank until it was a white sail”

DAVID WOJCIECHOWSKI

Voyage

Fiction

GREGORY BYRD

White on White

ANCA FODOR

The Librarian

JASON GRAFF

Voluntary Reader

JULIE INNIS

Dead Dinosaurs

ANTHONY KELLY

The Shovel Story

LAUREN OSBORN

Gossamer Girl

Special Feature

ALBERT GOLDBARTH

Every seven years we’re completely new cells.

Impossible Flying

John Keats’s Hair

Less

Separate

Terrible, Unfair Burdens

Interview

ALBERT GOLDBARTH

Willow Springs 90 features prose and poetry from Joan Murray, Triin Paja, David Axelrod, Anca Fodor, and more.

Willow Springs 19

Winter 1987

Poetry

The Mute SwanIcarus

The ExplorerComing and Going

To Talk With The DeadStory of the Afternoon

Ruined Bridge Seen from a Plane – theme and six variations

Black Lucy

CAROLYN WRIGHT

Eulene’s Noche OscuraEulene’s Broken Lifeline Woman, Money, Watch, GunAn Ordinary Evening In New Orleans – Eulene’s Significant Other Speaks Spectre and Emanation at JFK

Fiction

The ExplosionThe Medicine Show

The First Day of Summer

Lady God

Nonfiction

The Imaginary Life

Willow Springs 03

Fall 1978

Poetry

Maya on Cape CodMaya at Autumn EquinoxPersophone Returns to Hades

The Miner

Alaskan Whaling

It’s Morningloaded with grain

The Angel of the Adige

The MessageThe sense of being watched by more than we can see

Tamar & Son

The Secret Name Mundane Metamorphosis

NovemberCarols

Your Eyes Your Tongue Your Baptist Church

Near Split Rock Lighthouse

Scorpio is a Water Sign

Dog

Summer InsomniaDecember

1953 Awake at George Fox UniversityAfter the Communist Takeover of the Mainland At Tzu Lan Temple

Water

Fiction

The Strength of Women

Mountain Mountain

Wake

The Fish Didn’t Know What It Was

Piedmont Love

That Damn Cass

Art

Gallery (Photos by Robert Lloyd)

Interview

Willow Springs 20

Spring 1987

Poetry

Ahkmatova and Tsvetaeva Harvest Leah Callahan: 1882-1972

The Mute SwanInside the Fish

Historically This Man

BargainsFaith Tittle

Mileposts II

RAY A. YOUNG BEAR

Quail and His Role in Agriculture

Fiction

The Spoiled Child Shalom

Something About Cars

Nonfiction

Ouarzazate

Taking Words Out

Art

Photographs of Sandra Lopez’s work

Willow Springs 22

Spring 1988

Poetry

Honeymoon Ocean, 1939

Carl YastrzemskiFatty Arbuckle

Donald

Spy Novel

Twelve Poems translated from Slovene by Daniel Bourne

Here

JEFFERY WHITEHEAD

Landscape with Skidding Dove

Fiction

The Ventriloquist’s Dummy

Taking Inventory of the House

The Lack of Flashbacks in Leftist Films

Nonfiction

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

The Mute Swan
Icarus

The Explorer
Coming and Going

To Talk With The Dead
Story of the Afternoon

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

The Explosion
The Medicine Show

Maya on Cape Cod
Maya at Autumn Equinox
Persophone Returns to Hades

It’s Morning
loaded with grain

The Message
The sense of being watched by more than we can see

The Secret Name
Mundane Metamorphosis

November
Carols

Summer Insomnia
December

1953 Awake at George Fox University
After the Communist Takeover of the Mainland
At Tzu Lan Temple

Ahkmatova and Tsvetaeva
Harvest
Leah Callahan: 1882-1972

The Mute Swan
Inside the Fish

Bargains
Faith Tittle

The Spoiled Child
Shalom

Carl Yastrzemski
Fatty Arbuckle

Seeing Eye to Eye With My Father
Handless Maiden and Child

House by the Sea
A Kind of Ink against the Twilight

Once You’ve Collected Your Selves Like Books About You
Hatfield Apts.

The Enchantment
The House Frog
The While Awaying

Maneuvers
The Way Out of the Fly Bottle

The Bowl
One Shallow in the Body

Cloud Report 1/24/23
Cloud Report 2/9/23
Cloud Report 3/13/23

Low-Tide Sketch
Meditation at 7 Devils Wayside
Wallowa
Wind Advisory in Effect

for when our blood runs motherless
we do not live where we from