Willow Springs 40

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

Poetry in Translation

P. KOBYLARZ (translated by MONIQUE MANOPOULOS)

the ocularist

Willow Springs Poetry Award

B. T. SHAW

No. 2 Venus

Fiction

JOHN WORKS

3800 Monterrey

ALAN VANNEMAN

Living in the Year of Our Lord 1959, AD

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 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 41

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

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

Fiction

J. ROBERT LENNON

The Lucite Handbag

DEBERA FAWCETT HOPPER

Italia

Nonfiction

ANNA COPELAND

Lace Collar: A Memoir in Ten Parts

Review

JESSICA MOORE

The Sincere Cafe by Leslee Becker

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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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

SHERRON NORLEN

Polyphemus

D. NURSKE

Pennies for Flies

VERONICA PATTERSON

She Was

FRANCES RICHEY

Bones

MAXINE SCATES

The Current

DIANNE WILLIAMS STEPP

Beach Seining Tuna Woleai Atoll

Poetry in Translation

DMITRY BOBYSHEV (translated by MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN)

The Beasts of St. Anthony

ANDREW BRETON (translated by SIMONE MUENCH)

The Dim Lantern

LUIS CERNUDA (translated by CARLOS REYES)

I’ve Come to See

JOSE EMILIO PACHECO (translated by SIMON WALSH)

The Octopus

CESAR VALLEJO (translated by REBECCA SEIFERLE)

Our Bread

The Black Heralds

Distant Footsteps

Fiction

MICHAEL HOBERMAN

Still the Jews

WILLIAM OREM

The Spiritual Exercises

Willow Springs Fiction Award

LESLIE LEEK

Fishing Killdeer Creek

Review

DOUG MARX

Five Women Poets

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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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

Mapping Mars (Pathfinder’s Response)

ALICE DERRY

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

Reviews

LEX RUNCIMAN

Just Above Water by Louis Jenkins

CAROL SKLENICKA

The Wars We Took to Vietnam by Milton J. Bates

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

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 44

June 1999

Poetry

JENNIFER OAKES

The Allocations of Sound

The Listener

TOM CRAWFORD

Trees

Love

PATRICIA GOEDICKE

Lion

Soul of the Instrument

Alma de Casa

ROBERT HACKETT

In a Wenatcheee Way

PAISLEY REKDAL

Night Sweeper

MICHAEL CADNUM

Winter in an Adopted City

JAMES GRABILL

Birth Ocean

What Shared Roads Glow With Private Afternoon Light?

MELISSA A. HUSEMAN

Sweet Maniacal Orchids

WILLIAM RYAN

A Word for Word

LAURIE LAMON

Pain Thinks of Helen

J. P. WHITE

Cold Beer

DENNIS SALEH

Endymion

A. ROBBINS

22 January

Untitled

TOM WAYMAN

For Bill Sutherland

Fear Eclipsed by Distance

DENNIS HELD

Inventory

WILLARD GREENWOOD

The Grandiose Manner of Electricians

MARK SULLIVAN

Slag

ROBERT GREGORY

Why It Gets Dark

In the Century of Belly

JOSEPH MILLAR

Spanish Blues

MARTHA ZWEIG

Facetious

Atmospherics

RICH IVES

The Other Woman

The Moment of Impact

TOMAS O'LEARY

Hands Without Pockets

The Cosmic Pundits Praise You Utterly

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

ELLEN ANDOLSEK

p.m.

Fiction

JEANNE LUTZ

Have This Wish

RUSS FRANKLIN

Gunchers

STEPHEN SUND

Roomates

George Garret Fiction Award

E. W. BEALS

Picking

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

MATHEW SPAUR
More Vodou, Please

Willow Springs 44 features poetry, prose, and translation by Patricia Goedicke, Robert Gregory, Jeanne Lutz, and more. The issue also includes Ellen Andolsek’s “p.m.,” winner of the 1999 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, E.W. Beals’s “Picking,” winner of the 1999 George Garrett Fiction Award and a review by Matthew Spaur.

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Willow Springs 45

January 2000

Poetry

ALLISON EIR JENKS

A Place We Briefly Lived

In Search of a Brother

CHRISTOPHER BRISSON

The Morning of Violent Necessity

LYNNE BURRIS BUTLER

The Drowned Girl

RICK BURSKY

The Physics of What Happens

ALLAN PETERSON

Visiting Bolivia

KIMBALL MACKAY-BROOK

After Winter, Winter Stays On

WILLIAM KLOEFKORN

After the Reading, Early December

Highlights

ATHENA O. KILDEGAARD

Aria

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

Fiction

GREGORY SPATZ

Zigzag Cabinet

ANN JOSLIN WILLIAMS

The Matter of Dawn

Review

LEX RUNCIMAN

On Coleridge, Romanticism, and Biography

Translation

IVAN TABAU (translated by CARLOSE REYES)

The Ivan Tubau Collection

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

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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Willow Springs 46

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

Willow Springs Poetry Award

LINDA MALNACK

Dog Days, Autumn

Scorn

Fiction

JONATHAN PENNER

This Is My Voice

RICHARD SPILLMAN

Rain Forest Crunch

D. J. THIELKE

Along for the Ride

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 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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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 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

JON FISCHER

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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Willow Springs 48

June 2001

Poetry

JULIANA BAGGOTT

The Birds and the Bees: What to Tell the Children

KURT BROWN

America 1968

JAMES GRABILL

At the Ballpark of Exchanged Gnosis

MICHAEL STRELOW

Licking Statues

DARA WIER

Day After a Funeral

A Walk in Dubuque

JIM HEYNEN

Maniacs and Idiots

CAROL JAMES BANG

Psalm V: Migration

DENNIS SALEH

Typefoundry

ROBERT BENSE

Material Commenting on Matter: An Operetta in One Act

MARK HALLIDAY

Surely

Shelved

DENISE DUHAMEL

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Kenneth Koch

LEX RUNCIMAN

Pink

TOM CRAWFORD

Higgins Bar & Grill

Companion to a Loon

Wu Wei

PAISLEY REKDAL

Scientific American and St. Theresa: Ecstasy

JEFFERY THOMSON

Postscript

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL

Florida, State of Imagination

GEORGE LOONEY

Treatise on the Meliorative Function of Ruin

MELISSA KWASNY

Black Geese in the Honey-Stubble of Fields Near Spring

Letter on My Last Sheet of Paper

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

LISA RHODES

Wrecked

Ugly Poem

New Poem

Fiction

WILLIAM RYAN

Stunt

MICHAEL DOWNS

Man Kills Wife, Two Dogs

NICOLE LOUISE REID

(Re)Collection

PAGE HODGEN

Displacement

George Garret Fiction Award

MICHAEL HOLLISTER

Holywood

Nonfiction

TOM SAYA

Meditations on a Mask

Willow Springs 48 features poetry and prose by Tom Crawford, Melissa Kwasny, Mark Halliday, Page Hodgen, and more. The issue also includes Lisa Rhodes’ “Wrecked,” “Ugly Poem,” and “New Poem,” winner of the 2001 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Michael Hollister’s “Holywood,” winner of the 2001 George Garrett Fiction Award.

Willow Springs 49

January 2002

Poetry

GERARD MALANGA

Have a Look

Meshes of the Afternoon

Suddenly Remembering Brion Gysin

JOHN RYBICKI

Mud Brother Lord

Thirty Years Ago

MARK W. HALPERIN

Fasting on Yom Kippur in St. Petersburg

SUSAN LUDVIGSON

The Tower

KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY

Math

Broken Stove

DAVID LENSON

Terminus

Snow

KEVIN PRUFER

The God of Clues

Who Are Our Barbarians?

ELISABETH MURAWSKI

Pretending in the Shower to Be Blind

ROBERT GREGORY

Someone’s Been Eating the Moon Again

Where the Skin Is

A Sleepy Town, One Black Marble

American Rain

R. M. RYAN

Glenn Gould Plays the Variations

Poetry in Translation

OSIP MENDELSTAM (translated by JOAN ALESHIRE)

126.

341.

137. The Slate Ode

112.

394.

Fiction

DEB OLIN UNFERTH

Single Percent

WILLIAM RYAN

Saved

Fiction in Translation

DORIS DORRIE (translated by GUSTAV A. RICHAR)

Am I Beautiful?

Nonfiction

RICHARD MORGAN

Before the Rain Comes

AWP Intro Award Winners

ADAM MCOMBER

The Purse

LORRAINE MEJIA-GREEN

How the Star in the Middle of the Apple Saved Her Life

CLAIRE HERO

What is Left

BENJAMIN KOSTIVAL

Habeas Corpus

Willow Springs 49 features poetry, prose, and translation by Gerard Malanga, Kevin Prufer, Robert Gregory, William Ryan, Richard Morgan, and more.