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Willow Springs 37

January 1996

Poetry

CLAUDIA KEELAN

Chaff

KIM ADDONIZIO

Near Heron Lake
At Moss Beach

COLLEEN MORTON

Blackbird

NIKKI HERSST

Binoculars on a Tattooed Lady

PHILLIP ST. CLAIR

Into the Cave

NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

Cape Cod

DAVID AXELROD

Crossing the Mountains at the New Year

MARINA PILAR GIPPS

Drive

DAVID ROMTVEDT

Planting

ED HAWORTH-HOEPPNER

Bonneville Dam

JOHN PALMER

Goal

JACQUELINE BERGER

In the Frame of the Hillside

MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN

Two Seizures

PETER COOLEY

For Arthur Dimsdale

JAN STREVER

One Foot Planted While the Other One Roams

JACK BARRACK

Digging

TIMOTHY LIU

Across the River

BRAD RICHARD

Clown
Queer Studies

SUSAN EISENBERG

Depression

TAYLOR GRAHAM

J.J.’s Truck Stop

CHRIS FORHAN

Without Presumptions
An Honest Forest
Pine, Pine, Pine

KHALED MATTAWA

I Was Buried In Janzoor

MICHELLE BYRNE

Silence

JAMES FINNEGAN

A Loon Diving

RON JOUCHIN

I Sit at Home Naked

SALLY THOMAS

Love poem, West Memphis
The Last Day

ELIZABETH KIRSCHNER

Lullaby

MEGAN SEXTON

Lastochki

GEORGIA TIFFANY

Playing School

JAMES GRABILL

The Unanswering Will Go Unanswering

Fiction

LESLIE PIETRZYK

My Grandmother’s Rosary

Review

JOSHUA MCKINNEY

Unprepared in Earnest: on Keelan, Shapiro, and Gander

AWP Intro Award Winners

DEBRA DEAKIN

Screech Owl in Symphony

VERNON FOWLKES, JR.

Small Absence

CHRISTIAN ROSENSTOCK

Taking the Life Out

JESSE MILLNER

Hymns

AMY HICKMAN

Cyprus: A Fragment

ERIK SIMON

Waiting for the Deacon

KATHLEEN HEIDEMAN

Van Gogh’s Priest

Willow Springs 37 features poetry and prose by Kim Addonizio, Chris Forhan, James Grabill, Leslie Pietrzyk, and more, and a review by Joshua McKinney.

Willow Springs 36

June 1995

Poetry

JAY LADIN

Arkansas

MARK IRWIN

The Window
Vines

JAMES WILLIAMS

Sleep
Matriarchs

SUZANNE PAOLA

Driftwood Beach: Theme & Variations

ANTHONY SOBIN

Another Birthday: Sending the Angel Ahead

TONY HOFER

Grandfather Escapes Into a Sparrow

THEODORA TODD

We are on the Ferry Again

REGINALD SHEPHERD

Vampires

JACK MYERS

self to Self
Possessed
Keepers of the Past

JOHN WHALEN

Radio

JOUL BROUWER

May Day, 1921, In the Town of Vitebsk

JAY MEEK

Jars

SHELIA NICKERSON

Evensong

Fiction

BRAD BARKLEY

Clown Alley

Poetry in Translation

GRZEGROZ MUSIAL (translated by LIA PURPURA)

Untitled
All Souls’ Day on the Bay
Death in Berlin
Charlottenburg-the Park Scenes
Untitled

LIA PURPURA

Where Language Lives: Notes on Translation (Essay)

BLAGA DIMITROVA (translated by JOHN BALABAN and ELENA HRISTOVA)

Who Takes Care of the Blind Stork?
Lullaby For My Mother

SWEGEY GANDLEVSKY (translated by PHILLIP METRES)

Untitled

VINCIUS DE MORAES (translated by THOMAS DORSETT and MOYSES PURISCH)

Dead Can Sonnet

INGEBORG BACHMANN (translated by THOMAS DORSETT)

Paris

Translations by SAM HAMILL

Five Haiku from the Japanese

SU DONG-PO (translated by YUN WANG)

He Xin Lang (To the Bridegroom)

PABLO NERUDA (translated by NANCY ANCROM)

Hymn and Return

HAN SHAN (translated by PETER STAMBLER)

Judging a Scroll by its Ribbons

YANNIS RITSOS (translated by MARTIN MCKINSEY)

Selections from Ticks of the Clock

SA’ADI YOUSSEF (translated by KHALED MATTAWA)

On the Red Sea

HASIM SHAFIQ (translated by KHALED MATTAWA)

The First House

JULES SUPERVIELLE (translated by GEOFFREY GARDNER)

Untitled

PHILIPPE SOUPAULT (translated by TOM HIBBARD)

Little Daily Phantoms

OSCAR VLADISLAS DE LUBICZ MILOSZ (translated by TOD MARSHALL)

Autumn Song
The Bridge

LUCRETIUS (Translated by JONATHHAN SPIEGEL and JEAN BERRETT)

from De Rerum Natura, Book II

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

MARRY ANN SAMYN

Omitting the Heart

Essay

TOD MARSHALL

Our Daily Bread: Some Thoughts on Simone Weil

Willow Springs Fiction Award

ROBERT HENRY BENNETT

Outside Sylvie City

Willow Springs 36 features poetry, prose, and translation by Jay Ladin, Mark Irwin, Brad Barkley, Jack Myers, and more. The issue also includes Mary Ann Samyn’s “Omitting the Heart,” winner of the 1995 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Robert Harry Bennett’s “Outside Sylvie City,” winner of the 1995 Willow Springs Fiction Award.

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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

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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 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 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 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 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 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 37

January 1996

Poetry

Chaff

Near Heron Lake At Moss Beach

Blackbird

Binoculars on a Tattooed Lady

Into the Cave

Cape Cod

DAVID AXELROD

Crossing the Mountains at the New Year

Drive

Planting

Bonneville Dam

Goal

In the Frame of the Hillside

Two Seizures

For Arthur Dimsdale

One Foot Planted While the Other One Roams

Digging

Across the River

ClownQueer Studies

Depression

J.J.’s Truck Stop

Without PresumptionsAn Honest ForestPine, Pine, Pine

I Was Buried In Janzoor

Silence

A Loon Diving

I Sit at Home Naked

Love poem, West Memphis The Last Day

Lullaby

Lastochki

Playing School

The Unanswering Will Go Unanswering

Fiction

My Grandmother’s Rosary

Review

Unprepared in Earnest: on Keelan, Shapiro, and Gander

AWP Intro Award Winners

Screech Owl in Symphony

Small Absence

Taking the Life Out

Hymns

Cyprus: A Fragment

Waiting for the Deacon

Van Gogh’s Priest

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Willow Springs 36

June 1995

Poetry

Arkansas

The Window Vines

SleepMatriarchs

Driftwood Beach: Theme & Variations

Another Birthday: Sending the Angel Ahead

Grandfather Escapes Into a Sparrow

THEODORA TODD

We are on the Ferry Again

Vampires

self to SelfPossessedKeepers of the Past

Radio

May Day, 1921, In the Town of Vitebsk

Jars

Evensong

Fiction

Clown Alley

Poetry in Translation

Untitled All Souls’ Day on the Bay Death in BerlinCharlottenburg-the Park ScenesUntitled

Where Language Lives: Notes on Translation (Essay)

Who Takes Care of the Blind Stork?Lullaby For My Mother

Untitled

Dead Can Sonnet

Paris

Five Haiku from the Japanese

He Xin Lang (To the Bridegroom)

Hymn and Return

Judging a Scroll by its Ribbons

Selections from Ticks of the Clock

On the Red Sea

The First House

Near Heron Lake
At Moss Beach

Clown
Queer Studies

Without Presumptions
An Honest Forest
Pine, Pine, Pine

Love poem, West Memphis
The Last Day

The Window
Vines

Sleep
Matriarchs

self to Self
Possessed
Keepers of the Past

Untitled
All Souls’ Day on the Bay
Death in Berlin
Charlottenburg-the Park Scenes
Untitled

Who Takes Care of the Blind Stork?
Lullaby For My Mother

Autumn Song
The Bridge

Fever in a Rented Room
Neptune Avenue
Returning to the Capital

Preparation
The Neighborhood, 1956

Little Snowscape
White Conclusion

North Truro
A Farther View

Jessie–Part II
One Night Stand

Cleaning
With Gratitude, In-Depth & Sweet

Alice in Paradise
Good Friday

1950
The Rescue

Mind’s Eye
Night and Day
Slight of Hands

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