Willow Springs 46

Willow Springs 46

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

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

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Willow Springs 48

Willow Springs Issue 48

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 Issue 48

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.

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Willow Springs 49

Willow Springs 49

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

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

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Willow Springs 50

Willow Springs issue 50

Willow Springs 50

June 2002

Poetry

 

BECKIAN FFITZ GOLDBERG

Sexual Shamans” from Ancient Legends and Infidelities  

Art and Life  

Wigs Armor  

Faithful

 

GIBBONS RUARK

Nesting Epiphany’s Snowfall

 

DAVID LEE

Canyonlands, Eden

 

WILLIAM KLOEFKORN

Sergeant Patrick Gass, Chief Carpenter: On the Trail with Lewis and Clark

 

BRAD CLOMPUS

Healing Ceremony

 

CARYN MIRRIAM-GOLDBERG

The Snow Queen

 

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

Entrance

Snow

 

DENNIS SALEH

Lamentation

 

KURT S. OLSSON

The Architecture of Exile

 

ROBERT GREGORY

Is It Bad to Forget What You Dream

Like a City in Rain

 

ABIGAIL HOWELL

The Sky Has a String in Its Mouth

The Woman Composed of Birds

 

KEVIN CRAFT

Medical History

 

DAVID DODD LEE

Lake Winnipeg

 

LINDA ELKIN

The Edge of Believing

 

JOHN HENNESSY

Nicholas, Flying 

Mike Devlin

 

JOHN LATTA

John Latta, in a Copybook 

Garden Variety Stories

 

LOIS ROSEN

Blizzard

 

RUSH RANKIN

Retiring

 

TOM WAYMAN

Gesture  

What Teaching First-Year College Poetry Taught Me

 

CHARLES FREELAND

Night Song  

The Inferno

 

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

 

GREG PAPE

Steps

Fiction

 

KIM SILVEIRA WOTERBEEK

The Fur Is Feline

 

TOM CRAWFORD

Frank’s Story

 

Fiction in Translation

 

BYRON RODRIGUEZ (translated by CARLOS REYES)

from Bestiary of Ashes

 

George Garret Fiction Award

 

JODY AZZOUNI

Giant Squid in High Places

 

Review

 

ROBERT ABEL

Telling the Stories of the Disappeared

Willow Springs issue 50

Willow Springs 50 features poetry, prose, and translation by Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Michael Heffernan, Tom Crawford, Byron Rodriguez, and more. The issue also includes Greg Pape’s “Steps,” winner of the 2002 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Michael Jody Azzouni’s “Giant Squid in High Places,” winner of the 2002 George Garrett Fiction Award and Robert Abel’s review, “Telling the Stories of the Disappeared.”

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Willow Springs 51

Willow Springs issue 51

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 issue 51

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

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Willow Springs 52

Willow Springs issue 52

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

Willow Springs issue 52

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 issue 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

Willow Springs issue 53

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

Willow Springs 17

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
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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

Willow Springs 24

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

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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