Willow Springs 23

Winter 1989

Poetry

KEITH ALTHAUS

Winter Dawn

ZOE ANGLESEY

Peace Over the City

MICHAEL BURKARD

Wanted
Bridges with People on Them
Adultery
Singing in the Rain

FRANCES DRISCOLL

Unpurchased Batteries

ROBERT EDWARDS

Espanol 101

DAVID GRAHAM

The Names of Parents

ROBERT GREY

In Other Words

SAL HALPERN

Survivors

ZBIGNIEW HERBERT

A Suicide translated by Marek Labinski

LINDSAY KNOWLTON

Guilty

GREG KUZMA

Worlds

JANE MILLER

Lucky Pierre’s
The Butane Egg

SHARON OLINKA

The Man in the 1986 Thunderbird
Making a Sale

MICHAEL PURROW

Pantoum

SERGEI PETRUNIS

Hieroglyphs translated by Mary Jane White with the assistance of Alexander Sumerkin

TRACY PHILPOT

Playing House

THERESE PLANTIER

No One Writes Me
This Being the Season
So that Fur and Water and My Dreams Surround You

HALINA POSWIATOWSKA

Evenings translated by Marek Labinski

DONALD REVELL

Heliotrope: Years and Years after the Revolution

DOREN ROBBINS

Could You Have Understood This, Marc Chugall? The Male Soul Was My Whipping Boy

JOAN SWIFT

Stockings

MARGARET SZUMOWSKI

The Woman Who Gave Up a Good Thing

STEPHAN TORRE

Neighbor Upriver

MARY JANE WHITE

Evenings

Fiction

DAISY TAYLOR

Mademoiselle

Review

DONALD REVEL

Survival Without Irony

Art

GERALD CANNON

Willow Springs 23 features poetry, prose, and translation by Zbigniew Herbert, Sharon Olinka, Donald Revell, Daisy Taylor, and more, and featuring art from Gerald Cannon.

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Willow Springs 21

Winter 1988

Poetry

MICHAEL BURKARD

To Rose
Child at Anchor
The Night is a Sea

PETER COOLEY

A Dream of Childhood
The Choices

MADELINE DEFREES

This Paper White Narcissus

RUSSEL EDSON

The Rabbit Story
Of Distant Stars
That Day

TOMASZ JASTRUM

Exodus
Our Black Madonna of Czestochowa
Father and Son
translated from Slovene by Daniel Bourne

RODGER KAMENETZ

Meg and Joe: Five Poems

RICHARD KATROVAS

Ed’s Gun
Shifting

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA

The Cops Call Him Charlie
protection of Movable Cultural Heritage
February in Syndney

THOMAS LUX

Peevish
The Fracture Family
On a High Branch

CAROLYN MAISEL

A Woman is Missing
Tarbaby in the Briar Patch
For a Composer Beset by Admirers

JACK MYERS

Alien
Out of the Question

ALBERTO RIOS

Lost on the September Trail, 1976
Miguelin and is Best Idea
The Sea by Holding

LEE UPTON

Sold
The Faithful Wife

ELIZABETH THOMAS

Cerrillos Petting Zoo

DARA WIER

Little Black Tangrams
Nude Descending a Staircase

Fiction

LEE DURKEE

The Gar

DAVID RUSSEL YOUNG

Mr. Ridgway

Nonfiction

MADELINE DEFREES

Burning Questions

Art

JAN GILBERT

Willow Springs 21 features poetry and prose by Russell Edson, Yusef Komunyakaa, David Russell Young, Madeline DeFrees, and featuring art from Jan Gilbert.

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Willow Springs 18

Summer 1986

Poetry

DAVID AXELROD

Regarding a Nude on Diamond Mountain

PHILLIP EATON

Winter Day
This Dead of Winter
After a Thousand Children

PATRICIA GOEDICKE

Last Mornings

MICHAEL HANNON

Clouds & Rivers

JAAN KAPLINSKI

Once I got a postcard
I could have said:
It gets cold in the evening
Elder-trees that thrushes have sown

WALTER MCDONALD

Midnight Near Pecos
The Fears of Horses
Living On Open Plains

LISEL MUELLER

The Exhibit
The Stones of Chile – Excerpts (translated by Dennis Maloney)

STEVEN E. PUGLISI

Words for Benjamin

MARNIE PURPLE

On the Flood Plain
if the sun were not your mistress

CARLOS REYES

Islands
Field Burning

NANCE VAN WINCKEL

In the Fifth Season

STEVEN WHITE

Stumbling Home Past Curfew in Santiago Chile

Fiction

VIRGINIA BUSSKOHL

A Candle for Michael

HAN-PING CHIN

No Place for Junets

ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON

Fox-Woman Goes Man-Hunting

GARY EBERLE

Origami or the Sadness of Paper Birds

VINCENT PASSARO

Silent Work

Willow Springs 18 features poetry, prose, and translation by David Axelrod, Nance Van Winckel, Han-ping Chin, Jaan Kaplinski, and more.

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Willow Springs 11

Fall 1982

Poetry

KEN GERNER

Sitka Run
The Arousing

GERALDINE GREIG

Letters To A Young Beloved

JAAN KAPLINSKY

Seven Poems

MICHAEL KNOLL

Running, Autumn, The Sixth Year
The Dead Tree
History

J. GARY LEMONS

In Memory of John Berryman
Before The Ink Has Faded

Fiction

STEVEN BRANDY

Spills

ANDREA CARLISLE

The Eggman’s Wife

MICHELLE HUNEVEN

The Foot

THOMAS MCGARTH

from Christmas, Section III (excerpt)

Nonfiction

JOHN KEEBLE

Making Things Up In The West

Willow Springs 11 features poetry and prose by John Keeble, Thomas McGrath, Michael Knoll, Ken Gerner, and more.

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Willow Springs 13

Fall 1983

Poetry

JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE

Odd Days
The Infinite Trip
Three Strophes of Dust

DAVID CITINO

Sister Mary Apassionata Lecture the Zoology Class: Doctrines of The Beast

ROBERT COOPERMAN

Gregorian Chants
6,000,000

ROGER FINCH

To a Lover of Shadows

WAYNE DODD

Down the Many Steps of Light
Imaginative Study: At the Hocking Canal Lock

ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON

Summer Storm
On A Lake

DENISE LEVERTOV

from Of Rivers

OVTAVIO PAZ

Four Black Poplars

GIOVANNI RABONI

Moon
Madrigal
Moving

LEX RUNCIMAN

Vacation
Recovery

PHILLIPPE SOUPAULT

New Year
Blood of the Sky
It’s For You
As Far As

M. FAY WRIGHT

Like Salt, We Are Holy

Fiction

JAMES BOND

Fools Fall

PARTIK HENERY

The Spanking of Jean-Paul Sartre

Nonfiction

MICHAEL GURIAN

from Literature and the Threshing Floor (excerpt)

BRIAN HARRIS

The Implications of Reduction In Robert Bly’s Eight Stages of Translation

Drama

NIALL QUINN

Rejection (one-act play)

Willow Springs 13 features poetry and prose by Giovanni Raboni, Jorge Carrera Andrade, James Bond, Wayne Dodd, and more, and a one act play by Niall Quinn.

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Willow Springs 14

Spring 1984

Poetry

KEITH AUBREY

Water Passages

SHEPHEN C. BEHRENDT

Early June Woods

HAYDEN CARRUTH

“So, Dolling, You Love the Bright Month of October. O Yi! By Me You Can Have It,” She Said

ROGER FINCH

To a Lover of Shadows

GALEN GARWOOD

from Passport (paintings and poems)

CHRISTIAN KNOELLER

The Morning Fire

GREG GLAZNER

After Sunset

SAM GREEN

Mallards, Morning
Covenant: Saying Hello to the Land We Will Live With
My Father Sang to Himself

SAM HAMILL

from Passport (paintings and poems)

HORACE

Ode to Sestius, Former Consul
To Pyrrha, Temptress

GAYLE ROGERS KAUNE

Returning to Richland

CAROLYN KIZER

For Jan as the End Draws Near

JAMES J. MCAULEY

Walk-In-The-Wild Zoo
Sea-Writer
The House is Ready

WILLIAM O’DALY

Port Townsend: The Unwritten Letter
Oregon Coast: The Fire

N. M. RASHID

Expression and Reach

SHELBY STEPHENSON

Brimming with Pitfalls

GERRY TIFFANY

Journey to Damascus

EMILY WARN

The New Deal
Esther’s Boutique
Kaddish

AL YOUNG

Available Light
The Slots
Whatever Becomes of the Living?

Fiction

JUDGE M. SCHONFELD

from AS: A Crude Translation (excerpt)

Nonfiction

KEITH AUBREY

The Dreampriest

GREGORY MCNAMEE

When We With Sappho

Art

GARWOOD/HAMILL

from Passport (paintings and poems)

Willow Springs 14 features poetry and prose by Hayden Carruth, Sam Green, Judge M. Schonfeld, Carolyn Kizer, Keith Aubrey and more.

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Willow Springs 15

Winter 1985

Poetry

ELMAZ ABINADER

Looking for Birds
Living Without Guatemala
The 4:05 a.m.

MANUEL SILVA ACEVEDO

A la Apollinaire

ROBERT COOPERMAN

Story Tellers
Names in the Book of Life
He Could Get It For Me Wholesale
The Indoor Track

NANCY DONEGAN

P.S. for August

ODYSSEAS ELYTIS

Sun the First

OSCAR HAHN

Vision of Hiroshima

MICHAEL HANNON

On Cold Mountain

JACQUELINE HARTWICH

Open Secret

GERALD HAUSMAN

See and Saw

ALLEN HOEY

Listening to Voices

DONNELL HUNTER

On Crete
Homage to Yuang-Hung-Tao
Act Like a Monkey, Make an Ass Out of Yourself

OMAR LARA

The Poet’s Days

DIEGO MAGUIERIRA

Your Great Love

SERGIO MANSILLA

Cauquil

THOMAS MCGARTH

from Letters to an Imaginary Friend (Excerpt)

PABLO NURUDA

from The Separate Rose (Excerpt)

KENNETH SCHNEXNAYDER

Like This
Blackberries

CAROL SOWARDS

North to Yuma, Arizona
Lost River Valley

RAUL ZURITA

Aconcagua

Fiction

MICHELLE HUNEVEN

from Round Rock Farm (Excerpt)

GREGORY MCNAMEE

Red Square, Zalophus, RMN

JOE TAYLOR

Hounds of Heaven

Photography

Hounds of Heaven

Eight Photographs

Willow Springs 15 features poetry and prose by Pablo Neruda, Thomas McGrath, Robert Cooperman, Joe Taylor, and more, and photographs from Robert Lloyd.