Willow Springs 83

Willow Springs 76 features prose and poetry from Kathryn Nuernberger, Devin Becker, Jess Walter, Ed Skoog, Laura Kasischke, Kim Addonizio, and more.

Willow Springs 75

Spring 2015

Poetry

ALEX CHERTOK

The Question

JUDE DEASON

Goat Head Weed

KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN

Shhh

DAVE JARECKI

Brothers

LIZ KAY

Rendering— The Witch Boils

Gingerbread— The Witch Remembers

The Witch Discusses the Impossibility of Flight

ZAKIA RUBAB KHWAJAh

Dispatch Four Days After the Funeral

Dispatch from Simultaneous Swim Lessons

DANA LEVIN

Melancholia

MERIT O’HARE

Ornithology

ANNETTE OXINDINE

The Novitiate

COLIN POPE

Suspect

Phone Call to Plan Abortion, as Flood

RICHARD PRINS

Pantoum Found in Tom Waits Lyrics

ADAM SCHEFFLER

Elegy Ending with an Apology

KEVIN MCILVOY

Carson Daly

Fiction

ROBERT LOPEZ

Goodnight Maybe Forever

LUCAS SOUTHWORTH

Copycats

Interview

CATE MARVIN

WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

Willow Springs 75 Cover shows pink pressed flowers on rough paper.

Willow Springs 75 features prose and poetry from Dana Levin, Robert Lopez, Kathleen Flenniken, Liz Kay, J. Robert Lennon, William T. Vollmann, Cate Marvin, and more.

Willow Springs 74

Fall 2014

Poetry

JEFFREY BEAN

The Voyeur’s Gratitude

The Voyeur’s Prayers

What the Voyeur Learned

You Don’t Love the Voyeur

ERIC GREENWALL

2,4-D

ROBERT GREGORY

The Changeable Days

ANNA CLAIRE HODGE

Optometry Technician in Training

JOHN HODGENodgen

Jesus Tree

Twenty-two

MELISSA KWASNY

Texture of the Soul

DORIS LYNCH

Harvesting Crows

CHRISTINE ROBBINS

Poisoning rats in the back porch wall

ALEXANDRA TEAGUE

The Tiger Speaks

The Lady Speaks

Pox

ROBERT WRIGLEY

Chickadee-Doo-Dah

The Difficulty

Fiction

KIM ADDONIZIO

Intuition

TOM HOWARD

Bandana (Willow Springs Fiction Prize Winner)

Nonfiction

JULES OHMAN

Model Girl

Interview

ANDRE DUBUS

Willow Springs Cover 74 shows blue and brown paint smeared artistically across a rough surface.

Willow Springs 74 features prose and poetry from Alexandra Teague, Melissa Kwasny, Jeffrey Bean, Kim Addonizio, Robert Wrigley, and more.

Willow Springs 57

Spring 2006

Poetry

MITCH ROBERSON

Deathbed

MICHAEL MCGRIFF

That My Father Does Not Read

REBECCA MCGOLDRICK

No Room to Grow Up Anymore Here

DAVE NIELSON

Working a Turkey Pen

My Daughter’s Favorite Bedtime Story

JACK MARTIN

Weldon Kees and the Piano

ED BOTTS

Grass on a Postcard

SHANNON AMIDON

Why Sarah Left the Fold

Stridor

Sarah Takes a Night Off

MIL NORMAN-RISCH

Turnip

ROBYN ANSPACH

Miriam speaks from her seven days in the desert alone

JASON SCHOSSLER

Matinee

JANICE DVORAK

Hospice Nurse at the Pick ‘n Save

ZOË RYDER WHITE

A Length of Africa

RUSSELL THORBURN

Neda, After Falling Asleep While Bathing, Dreams of Her Wedding to a Jihadist

KATHERINE SONIAT

The Lamb

JEFFREY SCHULTZ

Sunset at the Meat Packing Plant with Shoes Strung Over an Electrical Wire

DENNIS HELD

Forward!

PAUL GUEST

Marksman

Anxiety

J. P. WHITE

History

Fiction

RONALD F. CURRIE, JR.

One Play

TRACI BRINK CUMBAY

A Lost Man Can’t Sing Home

DREW PERRY

The Histories Right Now

Interview

ROBERT BLY

LOUIS B. JONES

Willow Springs 57 features poetry and prose by Mitch Roberson, Rebecca McGoldrick, Ronald F. Currie, Jr., Shannon Amidon, and more, and interviews with Robert Bly and Louis B. Jones.

Willow Springs 02

Fall 1978

Poetry

GEOFF PETERSON

Destroyer (a complete kit)

JERRY KRAFT

When You Return To The Beach

JAMES J. MCAULEY

The Exile on Natural History

RODGER MOODY

Backroads

MILDRED WESTON

Landscape

A.V RAFFERTY

Harry Dead

R. A. LARSON

You Were Never Competent In Water
Lesson on the Wind

DENNIS ‘NFE BALOGU

Lagos

THOMAS VERSTEEG

The Lone Survivor of World War III Discovers a Surprise

R. FREDRIK NELSON

A.B.C

BRUCE SEVERY

The Guy on the End is Jesse James
Rosenthal Glove Mold, 1920

RON MCFARLAND

Trail of Tears

DAVID JAUSS

The Poet’s Lament in Summer

NELLJEAN MCCONEGHEY

The Poet to Ssu Ma Chien
“…all these are fully lawful dogs…”

JACK R. HARDING

“The Heart of Darkness”

BARBRA BRIANT

At the Sailboat
On the Way to a Third Wedding

BRIAN SEAGRAVE

Final Instructions to a Friend

LEE ALKIRE

Diaspora

Fiction

WILLIAM HUDSON

Acknowledgments

GEOFF PETERSON

Avalanche is Band

RANDY NORD

Matins Dishabille

Translation

ALMUT NIERENTZ-MCAULEY

Hunting Fish with Cormorants in China
Ballad of the External Life

FRANCOISE KUESTER

The Maxims of Poetry

Willow Springs 02 features prose, poetry, and translated works.

Willow Springs 01

Fall 1977

Poetry

JAMES BEETEM

Winnowing The Klickitat Barge
Once Again The Bronze Girl

GEORGE VENN

Homily in Palouse
Tomato

DAN VAUGHN

The Devil Came
The Pleasant But Curious Children

JAMES RAWLEY

Halloween Service
Sermon With Metaphors

JOHN CIARDI

Numbers

GLEN FARMER

The Principle Square Root of Two
Pi

JOHN C. NACCARATO

Jerusalem

RICH IVES

Old Cotter

PHYLLIS JANOWITZ

Change of Address
Pickling

JONELL DUQUETTE KELSEY

Putting By

NANCE VAN WINCKEL

The Drought

JAMES MASAO MITSUI

For the Ballerina in the Mojave Desert Who Has Painted Her Own Audience on a Canvas and Stretched It, Facing the Stage

GEOFF PETERSON

Catolico
American Review

ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON

November

BRIAN C. DEROSHIA

Leather Apron

GEORGE THOMAS

The Better View
Detail From a Combat Flight

CHRIS JACOX

Fire in Early Morning

ANITA TAYLOR JACKSON

Ash Can City

COLLEEN J. MCELROY

Out Here Even Crows Commit Suicide
Queen of the Ebony Isles

INGE WILLIAMS

Juvenile Detention

RANDY NORD

Slug Bait

Fiction

CAROLE MILLS

Clouds and Cornpatch Monsters (George Garrett Prize Winner)

RICHARD BALDASTY

Hello Madness, Folie Adieu

GEORGE GARRETT

Picture a Horseman Riding North (Excerpted from work-in-progress, James and Elizabeth)

RANDY NORD

Slug Bait

JAMES BOND

Whisky Sunday Refusal

Featuring poetry and prose by Nance Van Winckel, James Bond, Carole Mills, James Rawley, and more.

Willow Springs 56

Fall 2005

Poetry

AARON DEROSA

Sparrow Ethics

JIM DANIELS

Brain Freeze

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

Cofee and Profiteroles at the Nth Cafe

BETH COOLEY

Nativity

GEORGE LOONEY

The Burning Wheel Put Out by Its Own Turning

MIGUEL MURPHY

Monologue of the Last Fear

Cherries

DANIELLE HANSON

The bird eats a building

MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN

Hand

Lucky Dreams

BETH GYLYS

Evensong

ROBERT GREGORY

No Rain

RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE

Loot

FRED YANNANTUONO

The Return of Madame La Hoya

MARCO A DOMÍNGUEZ

Quiet Swell

JOANNA OSBORNE

Jackson Pollock’s “Moby Dick” Digested Through Four Stomachs of a Cow

ED SKOOG

Test Plate Displaying 12 Different Patterns, circa 1830, Eduard Honoré Manufactory

A.J. RATHBUN

The Heart’s France Is Not Always Equal

SAMANTHA MINEO MYERS

After Giving Up Meat

D.S. BUTTERWORTH

Ore

DABID LEE

Cold—Star—Wind Sonata

Fiction

STACEY RICHTER

The Land of Pain

KIRSTEN SUNDBERG LUNSTRUM

The Drowning

GEORGE MCCORMIK

Nonfiction

DAVID MCGLYNN

Climb

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

DAVID MCCOMBS

Rosetti in 1869

George Garret Fiction Award

EMILY M. DANFORTH

Everything That Much Harder

AWP Intro Award Winners

Poetry

MICHELE BATTISTE

Like a Sine Curve

Fiction

JOHN T. MEDEIROS

from Self, Divided

Interview

GERALD STERN

LAWRENCE SUTIN

Willow Springs 56 features poetry and prose by Stacey Richter, David McGlynn, Jim Daniels, Danielle Hanson, and more. The issue also includes David McCombs’ “Rosetti in 1869,” winner of the 2005 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Emily M. Danforth’s “Everything That Much Harder,” winner of the 2005 George Garrett Fiction Award and an interview with Gerald Stern and Lawrence Sutin.

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Willow Springs 55

Willow Springs 55

Spring 2005

Poetry

GEORGE GOTT

Koyoku #033

MIGUEL MURPHY

Chico the Child-Eater

ERICA KEIKO ISERI

In the Permafrost Tunnel

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

The Twilight of the Dogs

SHANE SEELY

For a Burial

J. ELY SHIPLEY

Man at a Bar

MICHAEL CLARK

Techniques of Avalance Survival

JOSEPH MILLAR

Throne

MIKE DOCKINS

Spring Equinox

Elegy for My God-Damned Free Time

NICK DEFORD

Hope

LOUIS JENKINS

Canaries

JOHN W. HORTON

Buffalo Nickels

TIMOTHY P. KELLY

Pange Lingua, Forty Hours, St. Angela Merici Boys Choir, 1963

PAUL AGOSTINO

Islands of Repose

LAURIE LAMON

Pain Thinks of the Angel

GERRY LAFEMINA

Elegy for my 34th Year

WILLIAM NOTTER

Worship

IVER ARNEGARD

Blizzard on the Rez

MATTHEW FRANK

Collection

STEPHANIE LENOX

Longest Sneezing Fit, Day 977

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL

D.W. Griffith, December, 1911

from the last century

sit in the dark with me

GEORGIA TIFFANY

Meditation on a Ceiling Fan

ANDREW KOZMA

Quarantine

Fiction

DEB OLIN UNFERTH

Egg

EVA MARIE GINSBURG

The Kettle

ROBERT LOPEZ

Bleeders

Maybe the Love of a One-Lunged Woman

IMAD RAHMAN

All Roads Lead to Flesh and Bone

Interview

LAN SAMANTHA CHANG

Willow Springs 55 features poetry and prose by Jesse Lee Kercheval, Robert Lopez, Michael Heffernan, Miguel Murphy, and more, and an interview with Lan Samantha Chang.

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Willow Springs 54

Willow Springs 54

Fall 2004

Poetry

ALISON STINE

Swimmers

ROBERT WRIGLEY

Simone

Ocean

GEORGE EKLUND

On a Sunday Sixteen Miles Deep in the Woods

A.J. RATHBUN

Sufficiently Past Melancholy

SARAH BUSSE

First Letter to Sylvia

EMMA HOWELL

It Is the Morning of the Day of Bleach

Leading Me

Parallel Flight

WILLIAM OLSEN

The Unspeakable Where

Loon

Winter Beginning with The Jerry Springer Show

MELISSA KWASNY

Reading Novalis in Montana

JOAMES GRABILL

Hieroglyphic under the Fir Trees

MARK DAWSON

Remembering Her

ANDRA SMITH-HANSEN

Winter Mill Yard

Last Shift

LANCE LARSEN

Reading Old Diary Entries

ADAM HAMMER

What Really Happened to Miami

The Quarterly Review Journal Review

Paul Jumps Every Day

JAMES DOYLE

The Bride, the Oyster, and the Singing Red Fish

DANEED BERGLAND

When Despair Becomes a Kind of Weather

BILL BOGART

Poor Dog

Poetry in Translation

EMPEROR LI YU (translated by FRANCIS BLESSINGTON)

From Prison

Fiction

JESSE MURPHEE

Amnesia

T.J. BEITELMAN

Rumination

PETER MARKUS

The Moon Is Girl’s Heart

We Make Mud

MICHAEL MARTONE

Contributor’s Note

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award

ALISON STINE

Kabul Lion

George Garret Poetry Award

JOAN MICHAEL

Establishing Witness

AWP Intro Award Winners

Poetry

LAUREN GOLDSTEIN MICHAEL

Rhythm and Numbers in a Florida Kitchen

Nonfiction

PENELOPE SCHWARTZ ROBINSON

All Hands

Interview

MELANIE RAE THON

Willow Springs 54 features poetry, prose, and translation by Emma Howell, Melissa Kwasny, Peter Markus, Emperor Li Yu, and more. The issue also includes Alison Stine’s “Kabul Lion,” winner of the 2004 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, Joan Michael’s “Establishing Witness,” winner of the 2004 George Garrett Fiction Award and an interview with Melanie Rae Thon.

Willow Springs 83

Winter 2019

Poetry

Fiction

Nonfiction

Interview

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Willow Springs 76

Fall 2015

Poetry

Fiction

Nonfiction

Interview

Willow Springs 75

Spring 2015

Poetry

Fiction

Interview

Willow Springs 74

Fall 2014

Poetry

Fiction

Nonfiction

Interview

Willow Springs 57

Spring 2006

Poetry

Fiction

Interview

Willow Springs 02

Fall 1978

Poetry

Destroyer (a complete kit)

When You Return To The Beach

The Exile on Natural History

Backroads

Landscape

Harry Dead

You Were Never Competent In WaterLesson on the Wind

Lagos

The Lone Survivor of World War III Discovers a Surprise

A.B.C

The Guy on the End is Jesse James Rosenthal Glove Mold, 1920

Trail of Tears

The Poet’s Lament in Summer

The Poet to Ssu Ma Chien “…all these are fully lawful dogs…”

“The Heart of Darkness”

At the SailboatOn the Way to a Third Wedding

Final Instructions to a Friend

Diaspora

Fiction

Acknowledgments

Avalanche is Band

Matins Dishabille

Translation

Hunting Fish with Cormorants in ChinaBallad of the External Life

The Maxims of Poetry

Willow Springs 01

Fall 1977

Poetry

Winnowing The Klickitat BargeOnce Again The Bronze Girl

Homily in PalouseTomato

The Devil CameThe Pleasant But Curious Children

Halloween ServiceSermon With Metaphors

Numbers

The Principle Square Root of TwoPi

Jerusalem

Old Cotter

Change of AddressPickling

Putting By

The Drought

For the Ballerina in the Mojave Desert Who Has Painted Her Own Audience on a Canvas and Stretched It, Facing the Stage

CatolicoAmerican Review

November

Leather Apron

The Better ViewDetail From a Combat Flight

Fire in Early Morning

Ash Can City

Out Here Even Crows Commit SuicideQueen of the Ebony Isles

Juvenile Detention

You Were Never Competent In Water
Lesson on the Wind

The Guy on the End is Jesse James
Rosenthal Glove Mold, 1920

The Poet to Ssu Ma Chien
“…all these are fully lawful dogs…”

At the Sailboat
On the Way to a Third Wedding

Hunting Fish with Cormorants in China
Ballad of the External Life

Winnowing The Klickitat Barge
Once Again The Bronze Girl

Homily in Palouse
Tomato

The Devil Came
The Pleasant But Curious Children

Halloween Service
Sermon With Metaphors

The Principle Square Root of Two
Pi

Change of Address
Pickling

Catolico
American Review

The Better View
Detail From a Combat Flight

Out Here Even Crows Commit Suicide
Queen of the Ebony Isles