Willow Springs 47

Issue 47

Willow Springs 47

January 2001

Poetry

SHELIA BLACK

First Light
Married Sex

DAVID DODD LEE

People Who

CINDY BOSLEY

One Evening with Friends
Story Problems

JANE BAILEY

Depression

JAMES GURLEY

Madame Blanchard Takes to the Air

S. RAMNATH

Musings, After Her Departure
ROBERT GREGORY
The Thing
Below the Moon
A Fine Place
Miss Joy’s Gone South
Say the Could Boy
The Last One

LEE UPTON

The Mussels

JOHN MCKERNANJOHN MCKERNAN

Brain

JERRY MCGUIRE

Li Po in Buffalo
Some Dancers

SARAH GRABLE

The Creation of Adam

MILES WAGGENER

Antonio Machado and the Trees

JAY NEBEL

Crows Over Wheatfields 
Lifeflight

TOM WAYMAN

The Nap
A Smaller Table

TODD BALAZIC

Disturbance at 4th and Brecker

LEE JON FISCHERUPTON

Consequences of a Realized Minor Premise
Letter on My Last Sheet of Paper

DANIELLE HANSON

Cruel Son
He Beat Her

SUSANNE KORT

Alice James Announces She Wants to Die

CHRIS FORHAN

Dumbwaiter to Heaven

PAISLEY REKDAL

Carvaggio, my left breast and the time my mother took a wrong turn in search of a children’s halloween party

DIANE THIEL

Excavations

PETER COOLEY

Surprised by Joy

LOUISE JENKINS

High Finance
Where Go the Boats

RONALD LEE JOHNSON

Lara Croft, Lara Croft

Poetry in Translation

MARINA TSVETAEVA (translated by KRISTIN BECKER)

In the Middle of the Room…

Fiction

LOU BENDRICK

Saints

ROBERT ABEL

I Married a Monster, and We Had Kids

Nonfiction

NATON LESLIE

The Cradle

TOD MARSHALL

No Country for Old Men

AWP Intro Award Winners

LISA LISHMAN

Wind

JONATHAN FINK

At Ten A.M., My Father Calls to Say a Student of His, a Young Wife, Has Been Killed at night, Broad-Sided, Alone, on a Back Country Road

BRYAN PENBERTHY

Utah Before Stars  

RHYS ALEXANDER

Vampire

Willow Springs 47 features poetry, prose, and translation by Robert Gregory, Lou Bendrick, Tod Marshall, David Dodd Lee, and more.

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June 2000

Poetry

MARY QUADE

Holly Hobby Dolls

GERRY LAFEMINA

Night Ending with the Sleep of Drunks and Penitents

CATHERINE STAPLES

Waking

CANDANCE BLACK

Where Blood Collects

GARY SHORT

Command

ALICE DERRY

Deposition

DAVID DODD LEE

Talking About Snow All Night

JONATHAN JOHNSON

Centripetal

PAULANN PETERSEN

In Her Palm, Perfection

DAVID RODERICK

The Curlers at Dusk

CHRIS DEMPSEY

Controlled Burn

JAMES GRINWIS

Medusa Disrobes
Obsession of Many

DAVID CITINO

Four Drown in Pool

HENRY CARLILE

Andrew

BRUCE SNIDER

The Fat Sister Speaks

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

Blue
The Garden God’s Removal

MICHAEL CADNUM

Skins

JULIANNA BAGGOT

Discussing Sorrow with Jesus  
Mother as Judas

TOM CRAWFORD

Through a Dog’s Eyes

D. NURSKE

A Night in the Men’s Shelter  
In the King’s Garden

AMY NEWMAN

In the Earliest of Morning

PHILLIP TOBIN

The Rain Sonata 

WILLIAM KLOEFKORN

Instrumental

JAMES GRABILL

Where Did You Say the Breaking Light Heals?
Alive

Fiction

JONATHAN PENNER

This Is My Voice

RICHARD SPILLMAN

Rain Forest Crunch

D. J. THIELKE

Along for the Ride

PAGE HODGEN

Displacement

Willow Springs Poetry Award

MICHAEL HOLLISTER

Dog Days, Autumn
Scorn

Willow Springs Fiction Award

CHRIS ALLAN MILLER

Mesmerize Me

Essay

YESHO ATIL

Shaving Grandmother

ROB TANNER

Fashionable Upstarts and the Etiquette of Cool

Review

AIMEE LABRIE

Clifford’s Blues
Willow Springs 46

Willow Springs 46 features poetry, prose, and translation by Mary Quade, D. Nurske, Jonathan Johnson, Richard Spillman, and more. The issue also includes Linda Malnack’s “Dog Days, Autumn Scorn,” winner of the 2000 Willow Springs Poetry Award, Chris Alan Miller’s “Mesmerize Me,” winner of the 2000 Willow Springs Fiction Award.

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January 2000

Poetry

ALLISON EIR JENKS

A Place We Briefly Lived 
In Search of a Brother

CHRISTOPHER BRISSON

The Morning of Violent Necessity  

RICK BURSKY

Visiting Bolivia

KIMBALL MACKAY-BROOK

After Winter, Winter Stays On

WILLIAM KLOEFKORN

After the Reading, Early December 
Highlights

MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN

Ego
GEORGE LOONEY
Anything but Indifference and Wolves

MATT YURDANA

Like Giacometti

ABIGAIL HOWELL

Don’t Say Nigger

ROBERT GREGORY

Suspira

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

A Sudden Shower  
The Flying Fuck

CAROLYN L. WRIGHT

My Last Night in Bahia

ELIOT KAHLIL WILSON

Blank Verse for the Leaving Season

Translation

IVAN TABAU (translated by CARLOSE REYES)

The Ivan Tubau Collection

Fiction

GREGORY SPATZ

Zigzag Cabinet

ANN JOSLIN WILLIAMS

The Matter of Dawn

AWP Intro Award Winners

ABBE L. HEPLER

Reflections on the Day I Lost My Card

VERONICA REYES

El Diablo

QUO VADIS GEX-BREAUX

Elegy for Marian Rita

MARY MCNULTY

A Girl, Her Bicycle, and Her Daddy

Review

LEX RUNCIMAN

On Coleridge, Romanticism, and Biography
Willow Springs 45

Willow Springs 45 features poetry, prose, and translation by Ann Joslin Williams, Greg Spatz, Michael Heffernan, Robert Gregory, Rick Bursky, and more.

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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

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 43

Willow Springs 43

Willow Springs 43

January 1999

Poetry

CAROLYN KOO

Rough Breathing Grave, Smooth Breathing Grave  
Sight Reading

VERN RUTSALA

What We Owe

DC BERRY

Tug of War With a Fence

DONALD JUNKINS

Finding Melville’s Grave

ROBERT GREGORY

Interstate
This is How

JOHN KULM

Farm Town
PETER PEREIRA
Crossing the Pear

MOLLY TENENBAUM

Honor Thy Livelong Toaster

BILL TREMBLAY

Auto-Surgery

CINDY BOSLEY

The Baby
The Preacher’s Daughter Lives Next Door

GEORGE HARVILLA

For Morris Graves from a Novitiate

BILL YAKE

Saying Grace

ALAN MAY

Jimmy

LOUIS JENKINS

Wind in the Trees 
Fire Danger

Fiction

PETE FROMM

Cranes

KARENMARY PENN

The Ninth Race

WENDY COUNSIL

Night Juggling

AWP Intro Award Winners

ELIZABETH PORTO

Airports

DAMION MICHAEL HIGBIE

The Killings

LISA NAPOLI

The Bathing Ceremony

LISA MAY GILES

Jewel Island

ERIN M. BOUTIN

Finding Jin-Jin

Review

LEX RUNCIMAN

Night Juggling

CAROL SKLENICKA

The Wars We Took to Vietnam by Milton J. Bates
Willow Springs 43

Willow Springs 43 features poetry and prose by Robert Gregory, Peter Pereira, Carolyn Koo, Wendy Counsil, and more, and reviews from Lex Runciman and Carol Sklenicka.

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Willow Springs 42

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Willow Springs 42

June 1998

Poetry

FLOYCE ALEXANDER

Peasant: A Triptych

RAPHAEL C. ALLISON

The Lime

TIM BARNES

The Caves of Joaquin Murietta: Evelyn and Sandalio  
The Storm that Wakes Us

HENRY CARLILE

Davanti a la Ruina

PHYLLIS K. COLLIER

The Moonframer

TOM CRAWFORD

Low IQ
Mother’s Version

PHILLIP DACEY

Taking a Shower with Daniel Ellsberg

JIM DANIELS

Digger on the Nature Trail

J. EUGENE GLORIA

White Blouses

ROBERT GREGORY

Diary
Halfway Vigil Poem

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL

You Are Born, Everything Changes

NORBERT KARPF

Helga on a Stool

JESSICA LAMB

The Invalid’s Wife
Gift

DAVID LEE

Conversation Overheard from a Back Booth  
Song E. U. Washburn Heard while Tending Roses

JOEL LONG

Brass Buttons
The Iris Cut and Buried in a Hat Box

GEORGE LOONEY

The Body of a Lover is Colloquial at Best
Even when Birds are Quiet

PHYLLIS MANNAN

Three Dreams of the Everlasting

GORDON MASSMAN

225

SIMONE MUENCH

Loneliness

D. NURSKE

Pennies for Flies  

VERONICA PATTERSON

She Was

FRANCES RICHEY

Bones

MAXINE SCATES

The Current

DIANNE WILLIAMS STEPP

Beach Seining Tuna Woleai Atoll

Fiction

MICHAEL HOBERMAN

Still the Jews

WILLIAM OREM

The Spiritual Exercises

Willow Springs Fiction Award

LESLIE LEEK

Fishing Killdeer Creek

Poetry in 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

DOUG MARX

Five Women Poets
Willow Springs 42

Willow Springs 42 features poetry, prose, and translation by Tom Crawford, Jesse Lee Kercheval, David Lee, George Looney, and more. The issue also includes Leslie Leek’s “Fishing Killdeer Creek,” winner of the 1998 Willow Springs Fiction Prize, and a review by Doug Marx.

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January 1998

Poetry

LOUIS JENKINS

The Telephone
Coronado
A Miracle

CHARLES GOODRICH

Turkey Vulture Talking

CAROLYN REYNOLDS MILLER

The Singing Lesson

GIBBONS RUARK

Autumn Elegy

ATHENA KILDEGAARG

El Higado
Mother’s Prayer

JACK HEFLIN

Claryville, Missouri, Third Sundays in May
CINDY BOSLEY
The Way to the Clinic

DAVID LEE

Old

STEPHANIE DICKINSON

Corn Goddess

MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN

Periscope
Startled Awake Once More in the City of Dreams 
The Elephant in Winter

LESLEY DAUER

Hide and Seek

JAMES GRABILL

With the Jade

DENNIS SALEH

De Chirico, Noon of the Angels 

LAURIE BLAUNDER

Gestures of the Flesh, Doctor F.’s Assistant

JERRY MCGUIRE

The Vampire Poet
Soh-Cah-Toa Talks Back

BERRY SILESKY

Prayer, With Kings

RICHARD HARRIS

Breakfast Before a Slow Fire

JOHN BRADLEY

Henry Ford Hospital, 1932, Frida Kahlo

KIMBALL MCKAY-BROOK

Can I Talk?
Waking at Midnight

GORDON MASSMAN

499

ALAN DENIRO

John Clare Eats an Orange  

VICTORIA WYTTENBERG

Leaves Going To Yellow 
Letter from Somewhere in the South Pacific, 1944 

RONALD WALLACE

The Calling
Thin Ice

GRETCHEN DIEMER

The Static of Interrupted Voices  
Voices Scattered Across Water   

ANDREA CARTER

Clear Out

Fiction

J. ROBERT LENNON

The Lucite Handbag

DEBERA FAWCETT HOPPER

Italia

Nonfiction

ANNA COPELAND

Lace Collar: A Memoir in Ten Parts

Poetry in Translation

FREDERICO GARCIA LORCA (translated by DAN MACLSAAC)

Pools

ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK (translated by STEVEN FORD BROWN)

Fragments To Dominate The Silence
Exile

P. KOBYLARZ (translated by MONIQUE MANOPOULOS)

the ocularist

Review

JESSICA MOORE

The Sincere Cafe by Leslee Becker
Willow Springs 41

Willow Springs 41 features poetry, prose, and translation by Michael Van Walleghen, Louis Jenkins, J. Robert Lennon, Victoria Wyttenberg, and more, and a review by Jessica Moore.

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June 1997

Poetry

TIMOTHY KELLY

At Pacific Rim
Two on a Shaman’s Rattle, Tlingit, UBC Museum of ManTwo on a Shaman’s Rattle, Tlingit,
UBC Museum of Man

ANDREA WERBLIN

Saints in the Hedges

ELISABETH MURAWSKI

She Looks Everywhere
The Audience

PETER SEARS

Men and Fat  
Shoveling Snow While It Is Still Snowing
We Talk About You, Death

AMY NEWMAN

Sophistry of the Quince Fruit
September

JACK MARTIN

Pinochle

JAMES HAUG

The Peace

SUSANNE KORT

As I Recollect the July You

JOHN GREY

Martha’s Story

TONY GARDNER

Restorative Art

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

The Heart
Fallen Jerusalem
Dryad
Catch Me

REX WEST

How Cubism Met the Modern World

CINDY BOSLEY

Patience of God

MARK BABBINS

Coelacanth

STEPHEN R. ROBERTS

On Swimming Pool Maintenance

LINDA LEE HARPER

Small Factory

THOMAS REITER

The Delivery

S. RAMNATH

Excellent Leisure

RON MCFARLAND

Sixteen
On the Way to Pierce

WILLIAM TREMBLAY

Juniper
The Sagebrush Hours

CHASE TWICHELL

Minor Problems
Sanctuary

STEPHEN AJAY

The Memory of Spring in Bali  
The Morning Green with Birds    

LEN ROBERTS

Double Yolk
April Storm, Olmstead Street Garden   

JESSICA HENRICKSEN

Virginia in the River
Storm

ELIZABETH MCLAGAN

The House Let Go To Sky

Fiction

JOHN WORKS

3800 Monterrey

ALAN VANNEMAN

Living in the Year of Our Lord 1959, AD

Poetry in Translation

P. KOBYLARZ (translated by MONIQUE MANOPOULOS)

the ocularist

Willow Springs Poetry Award

B. T. SHAW

No. 2 Venus

Willow Springs Fiction Award

DORIAN GOSSY

Florida Postcards

AWP Intro Award Winners

BRENDA MILLER

Needlepoint

CATHERINE MENG

Cranes   

JENIFER WILOUGHBY

Pretty  

LISA BESTEIN

The Death of Sade

DEBRA LASER

The Blue Bowl  

ANDER MONSON

Siding

NEIL THORNTON

On the Wrong End of a Cow with a Shovel in My Hand
Willow Springs 40

Willow Springs 40 features poetry, prose, and translation by Chase Twichell, Ron McFarland, Michael Heffernan, Peter Sears, and more. The issue also includes B. T. Shaw’s “No. 2 Venus,” winner of the 1997 Willow Springs Poetry Prize and Dorian Gossy’s “Florida Postcards,” winner of the 1997 Willow Springs Fiction Prize.

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Willow Springs 39

January 1997

Poetry

ROBERT GREGORY

Miss Annie Oakley Inside a Cloud of Butterflies 
Two Sisters Who Had Wandered 
Bluish City

DENISE DUHAMEL

Tulip

MICHAEL STRELOW

A Plague of Frogs 
The Fisherman’s Wife

FRANCES RICHY

Wake

LEX RUNCIMAN

Thin Air 
Like Men

BARBRA DRAKE

Small Favors
CARLOS REYES
Heavier Than Air

C. G. HANZLICEK

Feeding Frenzies
Bad Habit

ROB CARNEY

If I Hadn’t Drowned

LAURA KASISCHKE

Dear Earth

PETER SEARS

I Might Break, I Might Disappear 
Birds that Beat the Sky to Bits
Glint

LOIS ROSEN

How to Play Wedding

JEFF MOCK

Lazarus’s Bed

D. NURSKE

Love Affair in the First Weeks of War
Induction

JAMES GRABILL

Staying Alive
Working With Desire
As It Rains

ROBERT MCNAMARA

Poems from The Injured Coast

RALPH WILSON

Giving Blood

TOM CRAWFORD

Patriots
Yu Hyeung
Ri Ginkgo Tree

LINDA H. ELEGANT

Jackson Hole, 1946

ROBERT GIBB

Reclining Nude

HOLLY FLEMING

Let Him Tell the Good Fishing Story

Fiction

ROBERT ABEL

A Song of Heartbreak and Longing

DEV HATHAWAY

Taxidermy

H. E. FRANCIS

Talking to Spiders

Poetry in Translation

ALEXANDER KLEIN (translated by LEE SHARKEY)

Search in Alexandrovsky Prison
Cell No. 18

SAINT-DENYS GARNEAU (translated by STEVEN REESE)

Portrait

KATARZYNA BORUN-JAGODZINSKA (translated by KATHLEEN SNODGRASS with JUSTYNA KOSTKOWSKA)

An Escape 
A Cat
Willow Springs 39

Willow Springs 39 features poetry, prose, and translation by Robert Gregory, Peter Sears, James Grabill, Tom Crawford, Robert Abel, and more.

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Willow Springs 38

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Willow Springs 38

June 1996

Poetry

JOHN HAINES

Picture for a Breakfast Room 
Similitude

HUGH OGDEN

The Interval

MICHAEL STEIN

Gothic Woods

ELIZABETH MCLAGAN

Worked Loose by Wind
Winter Stars in a Summer Sunrise

JOSEPH GREEN

The Catch

J. CAILIN OAKES

Baseball
Flag
CHRIS KENNEDY
No Wonder

LESLEY DAUER

Home

CHRISTOPHER HOWELL

Approaching the Blind Date’s Door
Everything

CARLOS REYES

Straw Man

BRUCE GUERNSEY

The Sculptor

SUE WHEELER

Nonsense

RICK ALLEY

I Could Say the Mayfly’s
The Fish Breaking

PATRICIA HENLEY

Mining for Clarity

MARK IRWIN

Flame

JOSHUA MCKINNEY

Traces
Metaphysical

ALBERT GOLDBARTH

Three Days: Three Sections
Next
Some Secret

DOUG MARX

Letters to Han-Shan
To the Skull above my Bookshelf

ROBERT CLINTON

The Giantess

ROBERT HACKETT

My Morning Tour as a Pharaoh 
Almost Cider Time  

WALTER BARGEN

The Invention of Flight

KEVIN MILLER

Four Promises 

ROBERT HILL LONG

How Forgetting Words in Late Winter

Fiction

JONATHAN JOHNSON

Driving Plow

Poetry in Translation

SERGEY GANDLEVSKY (translated by PHILLIP METRES)

Elegy  

THOMAS BERNHARD (translated by JAMES REIDEL

Come under the tree, there the dead 
The night crumples on gates in old walls  

INGEBORG BACHMANN (translated by JAMES REIDEL)

One kind of loss 

PHILLIPE JACCOTTET (translated by AMY LEMMON

The Secret 

DANTE ALIGHIERI (translated by SETH ZIMMERMAN

The Inferno: Canto V 

RAINER MARIA RILKE (translated by STEVEN LAUTERMILCH)

Postmark: Ragaz, 24 August 1926

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

MARGARET LLOYD

Red Dress

Willow Springs Poetry Award

GWYN MCVAY

In the Dirt

Willow Springs Fiction Award

ALLISON GREEN

Half-Moon Scar
Willow Springs 38

Willow Springs 38 features poetry, prose, and translation by Christopher Howell, Jonathan Johnson, Joshua McKinney, and more. The issue also includes Margaret Lloyd’s “Red Dress,” winner of the 1996 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Gwyn McVay’s “In the Dirt,” winner of the 1996 Willow Springs Poetry Award, Allison Green’s “Half-Moon Scar,” winner of the 1996 Willow Springs Fiction Award, and an interview with Christopher Howell.

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