Willow Springs 09

Fall 1981

Poetry

LEE BASSETT

When St. Cecelia Gets Hot
Hello

NAOMI CLARK

Table
Lost

ROBERT DANA

North of Steptoe Butte
Camping at Crazy Woman Creek
Escudero
Beadwork: Mille Lacs

ROGER FINCH

On Stars: The Sempiternal Consciousness

MARK HALPERIN

Astonishing Tasks
When There Is No Need
In The Fall Wind
Her Changing

ALAN HOEY

Star Gazing: Letter to a New Hampshire
Friend

DAVID LEE

The Real Estate

EMILY WARN

Northern Lights
The Compass Flower
Leaf Paths

Fiction

JACK CADY

Singleton: Chapter 20

JIM HEYNEN

The Ungrowing
Bidding
In Which the Librarian Writes a Letter to the Editor
Uncle Jack’s Riddle

BILL RANSOM

Aftermath (excerpts)

MARILYN STABLEIN

Dhobi at the Laundromat
Dhobi’s Inheritance
A Severe Drought
A Cross-Cultural Survey
Prison Reformed
What is Compassion to a Fish

Willow Springs 09 features poetry and prose by Naomi Clark, Jim Heynen, Bill Ransom, Mark Halperin, and more.

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Willow Springs 10

Spring 1982

Poetry

KAY BOYLE

Selections of A Poem in Progress

RICHARD DAUENHAUER

Mother Makeyeva

GERALD DAWE

Atlantic Circle
Postcard for Michael

DESMOND EGAN

Ground Zero

DAVID EMMONS

Hold Out
From Connecticut

FAIZ AHMED FAIZ

#1
#2
#3
My Visitors
In Your Eyes and Mine
The Flowers Have Gone to Seed

NATALYA GORBANYEVSKAYA

In the Mad House

SAM HAMILL

Ode & Lamentation
To Aphrodite, Naked in the Snow

G. KAGANOVSKY

In Memory of Yury Galanskov

PAT LAMORTE

Directions for Getting to Our House
How They Tell It in Damascus

ANTONIO MACHADO

III
IV
V
X
XI

TIM MCNULTY

Love Charm

JOHN MONTAGUE

A Human Smile

HELGA NOVAK

Letter to Koladoghbe
changes of season
punishment put in perspective
ballad of travelling Anna

PETER ORESICK

How My Brother Came To Love Lenin

BORIS PASTERNAK

Sparrow Hills
In the Forest
Winter Night
After the Break

GEORGE TRAKL

Birth
Melancholy
Evening Song
The Heart
The Beautiful City

MARTY WALSH

The Hermit

Fiction

LANA EIDSNES

The Young Man and the Older Woman

Nonfiction

KAY BOYLE

The Uneasiness of Autobiography

JAMES J. MCAULEY

Notions: Toward the Redefinition of Irish Culture Or Circling Round an Obsession

Willow Springs 10 features poetry and prose by Lana Eidsnes, Boris Pasternak, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Richard Dauenhauer, James J. McAuley and more.

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Willow Springs 04

Spring 1979

Poetry

TIM CALHOUN

A Band of Poets Desert from the Red Army, Forever

DAVID CITINO

Already, Another Boy, Snow

WESLI COURT

The Curse of Death

ANN DARR

The Birds for Lucie
Dear Maestro
Riding with the Fireworks

GAYLE ELEN HARVEY

Joan of Arc
A River is Breaking Up

ARTHUR WINFIELD KNIGHT

Vanessa’s Leaving
The Mother-in-Law

L. LEIR

I Know Because of Her the Moment

CARL MAYFIELD

Hot Stuff

DAVID R. MEMMOTT

At the Battery Russell After the Park is Closed

JUDITH NEEDLE

Seacoast – Oil on Canvas
Churchyard at the Edge of the Moor

CARLOS REYES

An Edited Version of the Film “All that Trembles is Not the Earth”

JOHN ROTHFORK

Shelter
Manifest Destiny in a Winnebago Motor Home

CHARLES TAYLOR

The Man Who Gave Up His Greatness

HENRY C. TIMMS

Patroclus
The Vision of Aeneas

ROBERT S. WHISLER

Now the nuns are walking in their convent garden…

Fiction

JOHN KEEBLE

from Yellow Fish Chapter 8

DAN LYTLE

The Other Side of the Buffalo

CHRISTOPHER MECKEL

Ucht

SAM HAMILL

Clone Poetry (essay)

JAMES J. MCAULEY

Three Chapbooks (review)

Art

JAMES FRANCIS LA VIGNE

Gallery (photographs)

Interview

ANN DARR

Willow Springs 04 featuring poetry and prose by James J. McAuley, Dan Lytle, Carl Mayfield, Gayle Elen Harvey, and more, art from James Francis La Vigne and an interview with Ann Darr.

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Willow Springs 06

Spring 1980

Poetry

MICHAEL BOWDEN

Winter Count

OLGA BROUMAS

For You
Swollen Places, Summer Scars
Moral

FRED CHAPPELL

Page
Astrologer

REGINA DECORMIER-SHEKERJIAN

Shepherd on the Hill

MADELINE DEFREES

For Paul Mariana Bringing Electric Broom and Garden Produce
Framing the Outdoors

KEN GERNER

The Sound’s Edge
Shadows
Wild Geese Flying on Their Backs

PAUL HANSEN

Two Poems on Recent German History

EDWARD HARKNESS

Some Weeds that Lead to a Place on the Naches Where I Aimlessly Flip Small Stones

DENISE LEVERTOV

She and the Muse
Improbable Truth

ANTONIO MACHADO

Deep Song

RICHARD MAC LEAN

Low Tide

THOMAS MCGARTH

Another Hitchhiker Says
Ghost Talk
At the Edge of the Glacier

SAMMY MCLEAN

Staring into the Fireplace
Listening to Donald Byrd and Remembering Lines by John L’Heureux

OCTAVIO PAZ

At sight of a bird
Words take the shape of a duststorm
The grove

JEAN PEROL

Boeing
The Clasped Hand
Morning Mirror

CAROLANN RUSSELL

What I Said
Reunion

MARTIN SCHNEIDER

The Boy, the Butcher, and the Blind Perch

DAVID STARK

At Chitina, Alaska

ALAN STEPHENS

Anniversary: The White Boat

CHERYL VAN DYKE

Eucharist
Diana

KATHY WEBB

Winter Eve

ALAN HOEY

Star Gazing: Letter to a New Hampshire
Friend

KATHLEENE WEST

The Sinking of Hood Canal Bridge, February 13, 1979
A New Decade: Watching the Digital Clock Advance towards Midnight
The Road to Erendira

Nonfiction

CAROLYN KIZER

Kenneth Hanson and Han Yü (review)

Art

DANA WYLDER

Gallery (Seven Paintings)

Willow Springs 06 features poetry and prose by Madeline Defrees, Ken Gerner, Carol Ann Russell, Carolyn Kizer, and more, and art from Dana Wylder.

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Willow Springs 12

Spring 1983

Poetry

SANDOR CSOORI

Someone Comforts Me With A Poem
A Poem for Diogenes
Gravediggers with Cigarettes

COLM FLYNN

The Queen of the Snowfields
The House Of Fuschia
The Taste Of Strawberries
The Fall

KEN GERNER

Dithyramb

MARC HARSHMAN

Snow Company

MARK HUDSON

Under Snaefellsjokull

DAVID LEE

Mean

PAULA MEEHAN

The Garden Of The Sleeping Poet
Once Again

LYNNE SLAUGHTER

Bloodstream
A Fertility Ceremony
The Fifth Stage Of Sleep

Fiction

JOANNE MESCHERY

from In Transit (Excerpt)

Nonfiction

TONY CAFFERKY

from !Be’an’Been! (excerpt)

KELLY CHERRY

Writing About Running

Drama

JOHN CIARDINI

Willow Springs 12 features poetry and prose by Sandor Csoori, Colm Flynn, Lynne Slaughter, Kelly Cherry, and more, and an interview with John Ciardini.

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Willow Springs 05

Fall 1979

Poetry

LEE BASSET

Field
Factory
Fishing
Farm

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Ode Written In 1966
The Unending Gift
New England, 1967

ANNE CHERNER

Gold Mining in Australia 1895
His Story

M. R. DOTY

In Clinton, Iowa
River

SAM HAMILL

Gnostology

KENNETH O. HANSON

Autumn Flowers
In Exile
Bangkok
Walking Through Kyoto

ROBERT HEDIN

The Bombing of Dresden

ART HOMER

Following Morning from the Waterfront West

MARK HUDSON

Dewato

SARA KIRSCH

Before The Sun Rises
Day In Moscow
Georgia, Photographs
from IKE: a matter of geology

MICHAEL KNOLL

The Last Supper
The Interrogations
To My Sister, From The 27th Floor

W. M. RANSOM

Under the Clouded Moon
Dreaming Us Lost in the Mountains
For My Daughter Who Wants to be an Astronaut
Trillium

TOM REA

La Bouillotte
The Admiral’s Women
Young Women Picking Fruit

LAUREN MOSELEY

The Great Chain of Being

LUIS ROSALES

That Which You Call “Love Me”

Fiction

MICHAEL KNOLL

Ménage

TOBIAS WOLFF

Poaching

Nonfiction

SAM HAMILL

Clone Poetry (essay)

JAMES J. MCAULEY

Three Chapbooks (review)

Willow Springs 05 featuring poetry and prose by Jorge Luis Borges, W.M. Ransom, Tobias Wolff, M.R. Doty, and more, and art from Lynn C. Jacox.

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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

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.

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Willow Springs 90

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 88

Fall 2021

Poetry

ROY BENTLEY

To the Cleveland-Born Woman Who Disguised Herself As a Walk through

Summer in New Jersey

JOHN BLAIR

Correct

BRUCE BOND

Bread

NATE DUKE

Charles, Delete This Voicemail

JORDAN ESCOBAR

October Honey

FRANK GALLIMORE

Edsel

Appaloosa

KATHRYN HUNT

Last Changes

Have I Come to the Wrong Door?

DAVID KIRBY

Galileo

The Return of Martin Guerre

Immortal Beloved

MELISSA KWASNY

The Week of Moving Glass

The Willow Path

Searching for the Glasses You Dropped in the Creek

Rereading Dion Fortune's Psychic Self-Defense

An Ascetic Impulse Surfaces, Tears Leaves from Their Stems

KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY

PABLO PIÑERO STILLMANN

The Smallest Jar of Mayo in the Known Universe

MELANIE TAFEJIAN

Preserved Lemons

LYUBA YAKIMCHUK

from Yum and War

Yum appears

making up the enemy

hiding together

how Yum was born

GARY YOUNG

"Last night I fell asleep"

"Each moment blossoms"

Fiction

ROBERT LONG FOREMAN

Darling Frauke

AMANDA MARBAIS

Waking Hours

WENDY ELIZABETH WALLACE

Labyrinth

Nonfiction

ANDREW FARKAS

When Hamburger Station is Busy

JEREMY ALVES DA SILVA KLEMIN

A Mental Map of Eastern Europe

HOLLY SPENCER

The Crack

Interview

KEVIN MCILVOY

Willow Springs 88 features prose and poetry from David Kirby, Melissa Kwasny, Gary Young, Sandra McPherson, Lyuba Yakimchuk, Kevin McIlvoy, and more.

Willow Springs 09

Fall 1981

Poetry

When St. Cecelia Gets HotHello

TableLost

North of Steptoe ButteCamping at Crazy Woman CreekEscuderoBeadwork: Mille Lacs

On Stars: The Sempiternal Consciousness

Astonishing TasksWhen There Is No NeedIn The Fall WindHer Changing

Star Gazing: Letter to a New HampshireFriend

The Real Estate

Northern Lights The Compass FlowerLeaf Paths

Fiction

Singleton: Chapter 20

The Ungrowing Bidding In Which the Librarian Writes a Letter to the Editor Uncle Jack’s Riddle

Aftermath (excerpts)

Dhobi at the LaundromatDhobi’s Inheritance A Severe Drought A Cross-Cultural Survey Prison Reformed What is Compassion to a Fish

Willow Springs 10

Spring 1982

Poetry

Selections of A Poem in Progress

Mother Makeyeva

Atlantic CirclePostcard for Michael

Ground Zero

Hold OutFrom Connecticut

In the Mad House

Ode & LamentationTo Aphrodite, Naked in the Snow

In Memory of Yury Galanskov

Directions for Getting to Our HouseHow They Tell It in Damascus

III IVVXXI

Love Charm

A Human Smile

Letter to Koladoghbe changes of season punishment put in perspectiveballad of travelling Anna

How My Brother Came To Love Lenin

Sparrow HillsIn the ForestWinter NightAfter the Break

BirthMelancholyEvening SongThe HeartThe Beautiful City

The Hermit

Fiction

The Young Man and the Older Woman

Nonfiction

The Uneasiness of Autobiography

Notions: Toward the Redefinition of Irish Culture Or Circling Round an Obsession

Willow Springs 04

Spring 1979

Poetry

A Band of Poets Desert from the Red Army, Forever

Already, Another Boy, Snow

The Curse of Death

The Birds for Lucie Dear Maestro Riding with the Fireworks

Joan of ArcA River is Breaking Up

Vanessa’s LeavingThe Mother-in-Law

I Know Because of Her the Moment

Hot Stuff

At the Battery Russell After the Park is Closed

Seacoast – Oil on CanvasChurchyard at the Edge of the Moor

An Edited Version of the Film “All that Trembles is Not the Earth”

Shelter Manifest Destiny in a Winnebago Motor Home

The Man Who Gave Up His Greatness

Patroclus The Vision of Aeneas

Now the nuns are walking in their convent garden…

Fiction

from Yellow Fish Chapter 8

The Other Side of the Buffalo

Ucht

Clone Poetry (essay)

Three Chapbooks (review)

Art

Gallery (photographs)

Interview

Willow Springs 06

Spring 1980

Poetry

Winter Count

For You Swollen Places, Summer Scars Moral

PageAstrologer

Shepherd on the Hill

For Paul Mariana Bringing Electric Broom and Garden Produce Framing the Outdoors

The Sound’s EdgeShadowsWild Geese Flying on Their Backs

Two Poems on Recent German History

Some Weeds that Lead to a Place on the Naches Where I Aimlessly Flip Small Stones

She and the MuseImprobable Truth

When St. Cecelia Gets Hot
Hello

Table
Lost

North of Steptoe Butte
Camping at Crazy Woman Creek
Escudero
Beadwork: Mille Lacs

Astonishing Tasks
When There Is No Need
In The Fall Wind
Her Changing

Star Gazing: Letter to a New Hampshire
Friend

Northern Lights
The Compass Flower
Leaf Paths

The Ungrowing
Bidding
In Which the Librarian Writes a Letter to the Editor
Uncle Jack’s Riddle

Dhobi at the Laundromat
Dhobi’s Inheritance
A Severe Drought
A Cross-Cultural Survey
Prison Reformed
What is Compassion to a Fish

Atlantic Circle
Postcard for Michael

Hold Out
From Connecticut

Ode & Lamentation
To Aphrodite, Naked in the Snow

Directions for Getting to Our House
How They Tell It in Damascus

III
IV
V
X
XI

Letter to Koladoghbe
changes of season
punishment put in perspective
ballad of travelling Anna

Sparrow Hills
In the Forest
Winter Night
After the Break

Birth
Melancholy
Evening Song
The Heart
The Beautiful City

The Birds for Lucie
Dear Maestro
Riding with the Fireworks

Joan of Arc
A River is Breaking Up

Vanessa’s Leaving
The Mother-in-Law

Seacoast – Oil on Canvas
Churchyard at the Edge of the Moor

Shelter
Manifest Destiny in a Winnebago Motor Home

Patroclus
The Vision of Aeneas

For You
Swollen Places, Summer Scars
Moral

Page
Astrologer

For Paul Mariana Bringing Electric Broom and Garden Produce
Framing the Outdoors

The Sound’s Edge
Shadows
Wild Geese Flying on Their Backs

She and the Muse
Improbable Truth

Another Hitchhiker Says
Ghost Talk
At the Edge of the Glacier

Staring into the Fireplace
Listening to Donald Byrd and Remembering Lines by John L’Heureux

At sight of a bird
Words take the shape of a duststorm
The grove

Boeing
The Clasped Hand
Morning Mirror

What I Said
Reunion

Eucharist
Diana

Star Gazing: Letter to a New Hampshire
Friend

The Sinking of Hood Canal Bridge, February 13, 1979
A New Decade: Watching the Digital Clock Advance towards Midnight
The Road to Erendira

Someone Comforts Me With A Poem
A Poem for Diogenes
Gravediggers with Cigarettes

The Queen of the Snowfields
The House Of Fuschia
The Taste Of Strawberries
The Fall

The Garden Of The Sleeping Poet
Once Again

Bloodstream
A Fertility Ceremony
The Fifth Stage Of Sleep

Field
Factory
Fishing
Farm

Ode Written In 1966
The Unending Gift
New England, 1967

Gold Mining in Australia 1895
His Story

In Clinton, Iowa
River

Autumn Flowers
In Exile
Bangkok
Walking Through Kyoto

Before The Sun Rises
Day In Moscow
Georgia, Photographs
from IKE: a matter of geology

The Last Supper
The Interrogations
To My Sister, From The 27th Floor

Under the Clouded Moon
Dreaming Us Lost in the Mountains
For My Daughter Who Wants to be an Astronaut
Trillium

La Bouillotte
The Admiral’s Women
Young Women Picking Fruit