Willow Springs 29

Willow Springs 29

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

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.

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Willow Springs 31

Willow Springs 31

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

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.

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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
Willow Springs 17

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 18

Willow Springs 18

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

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 21

Willow Springs 21

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

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 23

Willow Springs 23

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

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 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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Willow Springs 11

Willow Springs 11

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

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

Willow Springs 13

Willow Springs 13

Fall 1983

Poetry

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

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

Willow Springs 14

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

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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