Willow Springs 35

January 1995

Poetry

VICKI GRAHAM

Tracks

GERY FINCKE

The Rain After Sunshine

D. NURSKE

Fever in a Rented Room

Neptune Avenue

Returning to the Capital

RICH IIVES

Sofia Kovalevskaya at Palobino, 1857

CHRISTOPHER HOWELL

The Getaway

DENNIS HELD

In Praise of Abandon

JOHN POCH

Disturbance

KELLEEN ZUBICK

Late

PHILLIP MAHAFFEY

The Leg

ALBERT GOLDBARTH

Preparation

The Neighborhood, 1956

STEVEN COPE

In Killdeer’s Field

TALVIKKI ANSEL

You Don’t Know What Happened When You Froze

ROBERT STOTHART

Day’s Last Work

CHASE TWICHELL

Little Snowscape

White Conclusion

D. J. SMITH

Man with Woman in Red

JEFFERY MCDANIEL

Dead Twin

HUGH STEINBURG

Four Erotic Poems

TIMOTHY LIU

North Truro

A Farther View

Fiction

ALISON BAKER

My Mother Was a Cabaret Singer

Review

LEE UPTON

The Grave Ariel of North American Poetry

Art

YUIJI HIRATSUKA

Eight Prints

AWP Intro Award Winners

BRET KEELING

Jessie–Part II

One Night Stand

SJOHNNA MCCRAY

How to Move

VIRGINIA PARRISH

Cousins

KATHERINE COTTLE

Cole Slaw

JACK BRANNON

At the Vietnam Memorial, Washington, November 11

ANDRES MONTOYA

Again Tonight: Aztlandian Dream

JOSEPH SMALLEY

Buildings

DIMITRI ANASTASOPOULOS

Yesterday’s Bread for Spiro

Willow Springs 35 features poetry and prose by Albert Goldbarth, Christopher Howell, Chase Twichell, Alison Baker, and more, and art from Yuiji Hiratsuka.

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Willow Springs 34

Summer 1994

Poetry

RICK ALLEY

Cleaning

With Gratitude, In-Depth & Sweet

A. MANETTE ANSAY

Ponies

SHANNON BORG

One Version of a Summer Night

MICHAEL CADNUM

Anatomy of an Eye

NICOLE COOLEY

Alice in Paradise

Good Friday

CAROLINE FINKELSTEIN

1950

The Rescue

JAMES GRABILL

Suddenly Tonight I am Listening

ALVIN GREENBERG

Pleurisy

NELSON HOLLAND

Mind’s Eye

Night and Day

Slight of Hands

LAURA KASISCHKE

Black Bear Paw $20

RUSSEL KESLER

On the Bus

WILLIAM KLOEFKORN

Thinking More, Talking Less

RUTH ELLEN KOCHER

Sestina Mouths the Object, the Word

LANCE OLSEN

Stories

JAY SCHNEIDERS

Bay of Pigs

WILLIAM VIANT

No Evil

Fiction

JANE MARTIN

Belmar

CHARLES ROSE

Complicity

Review

ELIZABETH OAKES

In Anticipation of Accompaniment: The Solo Voice in the Wide World

Art

SUSANNE BANNERSTORM

Oil Paintings

Translation

FRANCIS JAMMES (translated by TOM HIBBARD)

Wedding Day

PIERRE REVERDY (translated by TOM HIBBARD)

Clandestine Passage

GUILLAUME APPOLLINAIRE (translated by DONALD REVELL)

The Wind by Night

and Marie

Willow Springs 34 features poetry, prose, and translation by Nelson Holland, Caroline Finkelstein, Charles Rose, Elizabeth Oakes, and more, and art from Susan Bannerstrom.

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Willow Springs 33

Winter 1994

Poetry

ASTRID HJERTENÆS ANDERSEN (translated by AINA GERNER-MATHISEN and SUZANNE BACHNER)

Winter sine Anno

ALBERT GOLDBARTH

The Glimpse of Flabbergassment

Fraud

The Professor of Strangeness Out for a Walk

SÁNDOR KÁNYÁDI (translated by BRUCE BERLIND and MÁRIA KORÖSY)

Mane and Skull

Bell Inscription

PETER MARCUS

Not Knowing What Will Heal Him

El Mundo del Teror

El Mundo del Oro

KHALED MATTAWA

Careine Sloth Song

For Etel Adnan

WESLEY MCNAIR

Young Man Going Uphill with a Bird

SUZANNE PAOLA

Glass

LI PO (translated by KATIE PRICE)

Calling on a Taoist Priest in Tai-T’ien Mountain but Failing to See Him

DAVID ROMTVEDT

Spring Cleaning

DANIEL JAMES SUNDAHL

Summer Work, 1968

ALISON SWAN

If I Could Keep, I Would, He Says

Fiction

MICHAEL FONTANA

The Dead of Winter

JAN STUCKI

Pleats

Art

LYNN BROFSKY

Black and White Oil Paintings

AWP Intro Award Winners

SUSAN E. DUNN

My Mother’s Story

HILARY SELDEN ILLICK

Out of Body

JOHN LATTA

A Summer Night with Thunder

JEFF NEWELL

The End of an Era

BECKY RODIA

Cole Slaw

LINDA TAGGART

Sestina in Photographs

LAURA E. WEXLER

Freeing Mumia to Free Themselves: One Group’s Struggle for a Pennsylvania Death Row Prisoner

Willow Springs 33 features poetry, prose, and translation by Albert Goldbarth, Sándor Kányádi, Jan Stucki, Khaled Mattawa, and more, and featuring art from Lynn Brofsky.

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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

Positive

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 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 31

Winter 1993

Poetry

BRUCE BARTON

1968

GERALD CABLE

Camp Job

CYNIE CORY

There Is a Thing Called

SHARON DOUBIAGO

Body

CHRIS FORHAN

But Look Where Sadly the Poor Wretch Comes Reading

STUART FRIEBERT

Go-Behind

CHRISTOPHER HOWELL

Someone Else

PETER MARCUS

What Ripens Quickly

MIQUEL MARTI I POL (translated by WAYNE COX and LOURDES MANYE I MARTI)

White on White

This Future

Alone and Silent

LUCIA MARIA PERILLO

Boot Camp

BRETT RALPH

Tree Limbs Letting Go of Snow

CHARLIE SMITH

Kiss of the Moon

Off Season Repairs

The Children’s House

ANTHONY SOBIN

Beast

DABNEY STUART

Figure on the Edge

SALLY THOMAS

Grandmother Rising

AWP Intro Award Winners

CATHY EISENHOWER

Waiting in the Car for My Father at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube

J. B. HOOVER

About Inge

JOHN LANDRETTI

Card Tricks

ANN-BRITT M. MALDEN

Cry of the Black Crow and I’m the Glitter Easy

HEATHER MARING

My Name is Campaspe

GIGI MARINO

Fire

GEORGIA SINE

Death of a Biology Teacher

Art

PATRICK DOUGHERTY

Fiber Installations

Interview

Tod Marshall and Greg Dunne: A Talk with Robert Hass

Willow Springs 31 features poetry and prose by Christopher Howell, Charlie Smith, Peter Marcus, and more, and featuring art from Patrick Dougherty and an interview with Robert Hass.

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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 29

Winter 1992

Poetry

PAULA CLOSSON BUCK

The Man at Pensione Marta Looks at His Eye

From a Porthole

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

CURTIS DERRICK

How the Garden Roots Inside Us

LYNN DOMINA

Eulogy for a Suicide

PATRICIA GOEDICKE

Where There’s a Roadblock

LUCINDA GREY

Sábado de Gloria

CHRISTOPHER HOWELL

The Bride of Long Division

The Hermit’s Childhood

RINEHARDT Z. LINMARK

Day I: A Portrait of the Poet, Small-kid Time

DAVID RIGSBEE

Almost You

PAULETTE ROESKE

The Ecstasy of St. Teresa

TOMAZ ŠALAMUN (translated by SONJA KRAVANJA)

White Ithaca

Clumsy Guys

MARTIN SCOTT

The Mechanical Billboard

PEGGY SHUMAKER

Milagros

JASON STRANGE

Voice Lessons

SALLY THOMAS

Child in Trunk

Subway

Fiction

A. MANETTE ANSAY

Memory

PATRICIA BRUBAKER

Whiskey

MICHAEL CADNUM

Killing Jar

BARBRA CHEPAITIS

Correspondence with the Living and the Dead

Nonfiction

CHRIS ANDERSON

On Screens

PHILLIP GARRISON

Waiting for the Earth to Turn Over

Art

VICTORIA ADAMS

Willow Springs 29 features poetry, prose, and translation by Charles Bukowski, Christopher Howell, Michael Cadnum, Chris Anderson, and more, as well as featuring art from Victoria Adams.

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Willow Springs 28

Summer 1991

Poetry

ALKAIOS (translated by SAM HAMILL)

Alkaios

LINDA ANDREWS

The True Story of the Bird Women

ROBERT CLINTON

The Two Birds

The Tithe

The Corn Doll

A Pattern of Authority

CID CORMAN

A Suite of Six

GARY DUEHR

Richness, Goodness

November

ANGEL GONZALEZ (translated by STEVEN FORD BROWN and GUTIERREZ REVUELTA)

Human Geography

The Defeated One

The Days Were Like That

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

Requiem

The Music of Forgiveness

RON HOUCHIN

The Deadly Mantis

LISEL MUELLER

Insomnia

Statues

AMY PENCE

Hostages

DEBORAH WOODARD

from Kore

Helltown

Fiction

A. MANETTE ANSAY

One Small Thing

GARY FINCKE

Callback

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL

Ice

Nonfiction

PHILLIP GARRISON

Three Days in the Mexican Highlands

TOM HANSEN

The Heart Stuck In Its Stutter Of Yes: A Review of Lisel Mueller’s Waving from Shore

NAOMI SHIHAD NYE

Commerce

Art

GHITA HARDIMON

Willow Springs 28 features poetry, prose, and translation by Robert Clinton, Ron Houchin, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Philip Garrison, and more, and featuring art from Ghita Hardimon.

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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.

Willow Springs 26

Summer 1990

Poetry

MARCK L. BEGGS-UEMA

Grave

DANIEL BOURNE

While the Ground is Still Warm

JEANNE CLARK

A Day for Fishing

The House Next Door

SILVIA CURBELO

Some Nights You Crank Up the Car Radio and Just Drive.

JIM DANIELS

Rip

ALICE DERRY

Daughter, My Daughter

KAREN DONOVAN

Chemo

PATRICIA GOEDICKE

Dandelion

JOSEPH GREEN

Surviving Like Dummies

JAMES HIETTER

Silence=Death

CHRISTOPHER HOWELL

Poem Based on a Chinese Character Meaning “A Fire to Notify Heaven”

DONALD JUNKINS

Feverfew, Book-Moth, and Wyrd

WALTER MCDONALD

West Fork of the San Juan

DONALD REVELL

Mayakovsky Welcomed to America, 1925

CARLOS REYES

Mayakovsky Welcomed to America, 1925

DAVID RIGSBEE

Mozart

JUDITH SKILLMAN

The Flaws of the World

CHARLIE SMITH

Redneck Riviera

The Nightmare

JULES SUPERVIELLE (translated by GEOFFREY GARDNER)

Untitled

The House Surrounded

ARTHUR VOGELSANG

Drifters

MILDRED WESTON

Iris

Begging Your Pardon

PETER WILD

Real Success

Fiction

B. D. LOVE

Shoes for the Dead

W. SCOTT OLSEN

Firewood

Essay

DOROTHY BARRESI

The Best Accidents of Voice and Grace: A Review of Revell, Upton, Ramke, and Broumas

CARRIE BUCHER

The Family Constellation: A Review of Andrea Barrett’s Lucid Stars

SASCHA FEINSTEIN

Urgency and Restraint: The Jazz Poems of William Matthews

LEE UPTON

The Muse of Grief: Reviews of Alan Williamson, Kate Daniels, and Franz Wright

Art

Vestiges/Bookworks

Interview

MADELINE DEFREES

Willow Springs 26 features poetry and prose by Jeanne Clark, Patricia Goedicke, Donald Revell, W. Scott Olsen, and more, and an interview with Madeline DeFrees.