Willow Springs 89

Winter 2022

Poetry

DAN ALBERGOTTI

We Waited for a Voice

E. KRISTIN ANDERSON

Getting Along For Long

ANNE BARNGROVER

Princess Mononoke Hits Differently Now

THOMAS BRUSH

Belief

ELENA CASTRO-OLIVA

Guatemala in a Time During Which I Still Loved Her

DORSEY CRAFT

Poem of Frisco the Cat

DANIELLE HANSON

Capturing Sky

JULIE HENSLEY

Fossils

KARAH KEMMERLY

Fernweh

ALYSE KNORR

First Human Head Transplant

DAVID DODD LEE

Lie Back Down

TESSA LIVINGSTONE

Molly, Sleepwalking

ANDREW RAHAL

School Night

MICHAEL ROGNER

Darwin’s Finches

ANDY SIA

Have we met before and before and before then?

MICHAEL SPENCE

In Winter: Move and Countermove

JOHN STRULOEFF

Alcohol

ELIZABETH VIGNALI

Family History

MEKIYA WALTERS

Soon We’ll Sell Ourselves for Parts

TOM WAYMAN

Poems in Winter

Fiction

ANDREW FURMAN

Beneficial Creatures

ADAM PETERSON

Zero Nothing Null

SIK CHUAN PUA

Hat Yai, 1979

NICKALUS RUPERT

Chasing Giants

Nonfiction

AMANDA GAINES

Polly Pocket Strip Poker

MAYA JEWELL ZELLER

Scavenger Panorama

Interview

ADA LIMÓN

Willow Springs 89 features prose and poetry from David Dodd Lee, Nickalus Rupert, Anne Bangrover, Dan Albergotti, and more.

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

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

Fiction

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.

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.

Willow Springs 29

Winter 1992

Poetry

PAULA CLOSSON BUCK

The Man at Pensione Marta Looks at His Eye
From a Porthole

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

ah

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.

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.

Willow Springs 51

January 2003

Poetry

TOM CRAWFORD

The Enthusiast

ROBERT GREGORY

The Winged Man

Glossary for Winter

OLIVER RICE

And Monkeys Bark

GARY SHORT

Release

Nesting

ELIZABETH REES

Keeping Kosher

JAMES GRABILL

Hieroglyphics from Wind and the Inside of Seeds

Marigolds Out Back

The Night Sky

Maureen Clark

Psalm

ERIC TORGERSON

Clearing Out Old Books

For Cinderella

ROB CARNEY

Some Hearts Really Are Volcanos

More Than Ashes to Ashes, Not Just Dust to Dust

DC BERRY

Hamlet Off Stage: She Wheel

Hamlet Off Stage: The Snake’s Mona Lisa Smile

ELIZABETH MURAWSKI

Before the Air Became the Journey

VICTORIA ANDERSON

Heresy

Fiction

WENDELL MAYO

Cold Fried Pike

MICHAEL HOLLISTER

Dolph in School

Nonfiction

DARREN DEFRAIN

Evangelical Rubric

AWP Intro Award Winners

ERIKKA MUELLER

Polydora ligni at Low-tide

KAREN HAUSDOERFFER

Assumption

MATHIAS SVALINA

A Stark House Deal with Joel Cates

RACHEL STOCKERT

Therapee

Willow Springs 51 features poetry and prose by Robert Gregory, James Grabill, Wendell Mayo, Darren Defrain, DC Berry, and more.

Willow Springs 52

June 2003

Poetry

THOMAS LUX

Birds Nailed to Trees

Boatloads of Mummies

Say You’re Breathing

The Late Ambassadorial Light

Peacocks in Twilight

LAWRENCE GOECKEL

The Stare of Drowned Statuary

GEORGE LOONEY

Gene Study Shows Whales are Close Relatives of Hippos

EMOKE PULAY

Hungarians in America

RUSSEL THORBURN

Winter Rides Her Bicycle Uphill

LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER

To the Postmodernist or He Doesn’t Like [Truth]

DAVID ROMTVEDT

Science

JOHN HOGDEN

This Moon, These Fifty Years

Pre-Natal

Weaning

Outside the Coolawhatchie Blimpie Gas ‘N Go

PAULA BOHINCE

Eating Fish in Pittsburgh

A. J. RATHBUN

Matinee

ANGIE HOGAN

Bootleg

LIBBY WAGNER

After Arguing

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

MISTY HARPER

Splitting

Fiction

ROBERT OLMSTEAD

My Husband and Your Story

ANDER MONSON

Residue

MELVIN SI INNF

The Heart-Smart Diet

George Garret Fiction Award

GARY FINCKE

Evolution: The Blazer Sestinii

Nonfiction in Translation

GUISEPPA ANTONIA MALLIMACI (translated by EDWARD VASTA)

The Lucky Ones

Interview

PHILLIP LOPATE

Willow Springs 52 features poetry, prose, and translation by Thomas Lux, John Hogden, Robert Olmstead, Guiseppa Antonia Mallimaci, and more. The issue also includes Misty Harper’s “Splitting,” winner of the 2003 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Gary Fincke’s “Evolution: The Blazer Sestinii,” winner of the 2003 George Garrett Fiction Award and an interview with Phillip Lopate.

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Willow Springs 53

Willow Springs 53

Spring 2004

Chapbook

ROBERT GREGORY

When It’s Your Turn to Be the Sky

Poetry

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL

Manege de la Vilette

THOMAS REITER

Hosanna Walk

JOHN PURSLEY III

Light Upon Water

DANIEL BOURNE

Painstaking, the Scarecrows

DAVID LAWRENCE

Sketches

SCOTT WITHIAM

Missing Hikers

HANS OSTROM

Bread and Bus: An Essay

JOHN DRURY

Double Elegy

CAROLYN GUINZIO

White Box, Wax Paper

DENNIS SALEH

The Thumb

LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER

Weaning

The Turtle of Love

DENNIS HINRICHSEN

Samurai Spring

The Sound-of-One-Hand-Clapping Shout

Poetry in Translation

PAUL VALERY (translated by LOUIS E. BOURGEOIS)

View

GEORGES GODEAU (translated by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY)

Buffet

Fiction

ALEX MINDT

Sabor a Mí

THOMAS GOUGH

You See How Much I Know About Jazz

CHRISTOPHER TOROCKIO

Powers of Expression

AWP Intro Award Winners

CATHERINE PIERCE

Evolution

SARAH GAGE

What We Look for and What We Find

JEFF FALLIS

The Philosophies of Popular Songs

PAULETTE BEETE

Mighty Tight Woman

Interview

RICK BASS

Willow Springs 53 features poetry, prose, and translation by Jesse Lee Kercheval, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Thomas Gough, Paul Valéry, and more. This issue also features Robert Gregory’s chapbook, “When It’s Your Turn to Be the Sky,“ as well as an interview with Rick Bass.

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Willow Springs 17

Winter 1986

Poetry

LEON CHIDESTER

Most Things Break
And You’ll Break Your Mother’s Back
Son

ROBERT COOPERMAN

From the Ballad of “The Twa Corbies”
Sir Patrick Spens
The Witches of Salem

BREWSTER GHISELIN

Leone Traverso (Italian)
Leone Traverso (English)
Llewelyn Powys
A Celebration

ROBERT GIBB

Among the Successions
Listening to the Ballgame

BOGOMIL GJUZEL

When I Came Back
On the Way Back
Prostitution

FLORENCE GREATHOUSE

Forgetting

PAMELA GROSS

The Cache

ALLEN HOEY

Hymns to a Tree

SIBYL JAMES

A Well in Chad

RICHARD JONES

The Idle Fleet, James River, Virginia
The Wounded One

KONSTANTINOS LARDAS

Gloria
Adelphic
Marvels

DAVID LEE

Alpine Pond, Cedar Breaks
South Gorge, Moab
Kaiparowits Plateau

SHANNON NELSON

The Carbon River

TOM REA

The King Dreams Queen Q
The X Cross
Y of the Uplifted Arms

MAURYA SIMON

Sunday
First Light
Self Portrait
Encounter

LISA STEINMAN

The Translation of Natural Languages
An Anatomy of Dreams
Reading for the Governor in the Ceremonial Office

DON WELCH

Borges Three Small Letters to the Coast

CAROLYNE WRIGHT

Eulene Stays the Course
Eulene Enters the Me Generation
Return to Sender?

Fiction

GREGORY NAMEE

Renardin

DAVID SIMS

Stickman

SUSAN WHEELER

Grieving

Willow Springs 17 features poetry, prose, and translation by Robert Gibb, David Lee, Don Welch, David Sims, and more.

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Willow Springs 24

Summer 1989

Fiction

ANDREA BARRETT

Escaped Alone to Tell

ANNIE DAWID

The Meteorite Shower

SESSHU FOSTER

The Street of the Fathers

BRET LOTT

Garage Sale

JAY NEUGEBOREN

How I Became an Orphan in 1947

HANS OSTROM

Bluestone

PAT ELLIS TAYLOR

The School of Reversals

SUSAN WHEELER

Agitations

WILLIAM WISHBOW

Soccer

Art

CORNELIA MCSHEEHY

Willow Springs 24 features prose by Bret Lott, Andrea Barrett, Hans Ostrom, and more, as well as art from Cornelia McSheehy.

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Willow Springs 89

Winter 2022

Poetry

Fiction

Nonfiction

Interview

Willow Springs 26

Summer 1990

Poetry

Grave

While the Ground is Still Warm

A Day for FishingThe House Next Door

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

Rip

Daughter, My Daughter

KAREN DONOVAN

Chemo

Dandelion

Surviving Like Dummies

Silence=Death

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

Feverfew, Book-Moth, and Wyrd

West Fork of the San Juan

Mayakovsky Welcomed to America, 1925

Mayakovsky Welcomed to America, 1925

Mozart

The Flaws of the World

The Nightmare

UntitledThe House Surrounded

Drifters

IrisBegging Your Pardon

Real Success

Fiction

Shoes for the Dead

Firewood

Fiction

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

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

Urgency and Restraint: The Jazz Poems of William Matthews

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

Art

Interview

Willow Springs 31

Winter 1993

Poetry

1968

Camp Job

There Is a Thing Called

Body

But Look Where Sadly the Poor Wretch Comes Reading

Go-Behind

CHRISTOPHER HOWELL

Someone Else

What Ripens Quickly

White on WhiteThis FutureAlone and Silent

Boot Camp

Tree Limbs Letting Go of Snow

Kiss of the MoonOff Season RepairsThe Children’s House

Beast

Figure on the Edge

Grandmother Rising

AWP Intro Award Winners

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

About Inge

Card Tricks

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

My Name is Campaspe

Fire

Death of a Biology Teacher

Art

Fiber Installations

Interview

Willow Springs 29

Winter 1992

Poetry

The Man at Pensione Marta Looks at His EyeFrom a Porthole

ah

How the Garden Roots Inside Us

Eulogy for a Suicide

Where There’s a Roadblock

A Day for Fishing
The House Next Door

Untitled
The House Surrounded

Iris
Begging Your Pardon

White on White
This Future
Alone and Silent

Kiss of the Moon
Off Season Repairs
The Children’s House

The Man at Pensione Marta Looks at His Eye
From a Porthole

The Bride of Long Division
The Hermit’s Childhood

White Ithaca
Clumsy Guys

Child in Trunk
Subway

The Two Birds
The Tithe
The Corn Doll
A Pattern of Authority

Richness, Goodness
November

Human Geography
The Defeated One
The Days Were Like That

Requiem
The Music of Forgiveness

Insomnia
Statues

from Kore
Helltown