Description
The CALYX Editorial Collective is the recipient of numerous awards including the Stewart H. Holbrook Award and CCLM Editors’ awards.
Florilegia: a culling of flowers, anthologies of writings. Calyx: “the protective covering on the flowerbud. The bud blossoms as the calyx opens and falls away. The flower in all its magnificence becomes the centerpiece of the plant.”
What is trimmed away and kept fresh for the eyes is beautiful, as is this retrospective of work by 96 women artists and writers; a tapestry with images, themes, and styles that highlights the recurring concerns of an era while acclaiming the talents of creative women. A zeitgeist of CALYX Journal’s first decade, Florilegia presents a vision that is challenging, incisive, and life-affirming. Some of the finest literature and art by 96 women published during CALYX Journal’s first decade, including Sharon Olds, Paula Gunn Allen, Julia Alvarez, Olga Broumas, Monica Sjöo, Diane Glancy, Linda Hogan, Frida Kahlo, Barbara Kingsolver, Elizabeth Layton, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Eleanor Wilner.
From the introduction: “Florilegia offers the creative thinking of a female consciousness that in its critical reflection may present an impetus for action, a spark in the darkness lighting a new path. In the work presented interrelationships can be found between patriarchal attitudes toward that which is female and patriarchal attitudes toward mother earth.”
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POETRY
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| Sharon Olds | The Language of the Brag |
| Judith W. Steinbergh | Arguing with Joyce |
| Guri Andermann | Syllogisms |
| Alexa Hollywood | Poet |
| Jane Hirshfield | The Stream of It |
| Sharon Doubiago | From: Oedipus Drowned |
| Beth Bentley | Abraham’s Wife |
| Anne Young | Drowning |
| Ellen Bass | Even This |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | Menstrual Lodge |
| Barbara Kingsolver | Remember the Moon Survives |
| Your Mother’s Eyes | |
| Renny Golden | Guatemalan Exodus: Los Naturales |
| Eleanor Wilner | The Last Man |
| Bailing Out—A Poem for the 1970s | |
| Sujata Bhatt | Search for My Tongue |
| Yolanda Mancilla | Niña |
| Gail Tremblay | Urban Indians, Pioneer Square, Seattle |
| Diane Glancy | Great Indian Father in the Subway |
| Lyn Lifshin | I Remember Haifa Being Lovely But |
| Marean L. Jordan | Tamsen Donner at Alder Creek |
| Barbara Baldwin | October Light |
| Jan Clausen | Sestina, Winchell’s Donut House |
| Wendy Rose | Earth Place |
| Sheila Demetre | Women of Salt |
| Paula Gunn Allen | Weed |
| Li Chi | On Arriving at Ling-Nan, January 1949 |
| Mary Tallmountain | Birthing |
| Ingrid Wendt | Having Given Birth |
| Jana Zvibleman | (When she is 18, of whichever moon) |
| Pearl Bond | Jewish Mother |
| Marjorie Agosin | Mi Estomago (My Belly) |
| Terri L. Jewell | Sistah Flo |
| Darlene Mathis-Eddy | Widow’s Walk |
| Marily Folkestad | Speaking in Tongues |
| Olga Broumas | Song/For Sanna |
| Ellen Bass | To Praise |
| Marilyn Hacker | Aubade II |
| Rebecca Gordon | Sonnet on a New Bed |
| Natalie Goldberg | Tow Iowa Farmers |
| Coming Together | |
| Olga Broumas | Amazon Twins |
| Joan Larkin | Risks: |
| Alfonsina Storni | You Want Me White |
| Sibyl James | Real Vanilla |
| Julia Alvarez | Against Cinderella |
| Paulann Petersen | I Listen to Alice Walker on a Pocket Radio |
| Colleen McElroy | Learning to Swim at Forty-Five |
| Pesha Gertler | The Season of Bitter Root and Snake Venom |
| Pat Mora | Bruja: Witch |
| Rebecca Gordon | La Revolución Es Una Chavala de Cinco Años |
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ART
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| Faedra Kosh | Sphere |
| Celeste Rehm | Alternate Way to Enter a Room |
| Carol Gates | Descending Triangle |
| Ada Medina | Ejemplo |
| Cuento | |
| Melanie Tolbert | Untitled |
| Robin Lasser | Wall Fragment from Cliff Dwelling |
| Swiss Barn | |
| Joanna Priestley | Megalithic Tomb Illumination |
| Paula King | The Day I Left My Vacuum Cleaner |
| Graça Martins | Black Birds |
| Frida Kahlo | Friday y la Cesarea |
| Barbara Thomas | Communion |
| When Two Dance It’s a Couple | |
| Katherine Gorham | The Patriotic Girls |
| Zuleyka Benitez | Small-Footed Ladies of the S.L.A. Moments Before the End |
| Carolyn Cárdenas | Self-Portrait Series, #2 |
| Claudia Cave | Night Life |
| Paula Ross | Alternate Way to Enter a Room |
| Carol Gates | Pinky Gales |
| Elizabeth Layton | Self-Portrait as the Statue of Liberty |
| Elouise Ann Clark | Disguises of a Raven’s Night |
| Mary Riley | Ancient America I |
| Linda Lomahaftewa | Evening Parrot and New Moon |
| Paula Lumbard | Migration |
| Jennifer Stabler-Holland | The Dress |
| Patricia Forsberg | The Visitation: Where Should I Put My Suitcase? |
| Monica Sjoo | Saint Non’s Well |
| Charleen Touchette | On the River Again |
| Vicki Folkerts-Coots | Lineage |
| Frida Kahlo | Autorretrato Como Tehuana |
| Ester Hernandez | Woman with Fire |
| Mary Hatch | Bye Bye Birdie |
| Betty LaDuke | Latin America: Timeless Time |
| The Cassowary’s Child | |
| Silvia Santal | Untitled |
| Meredith Jenkins | Grandmother’s Gloves II |
| Linda Joan Miller | Untitled |
| Sandra McKee | Self-Portrait as Mary Martin as Peter Pan |
| Faedra Kosh | Shining Woman #11 (Amber) |
| Ann Meredith | Tushu |
| Janet Culbertson | Beginning “Women A New Myth” |
| Dana Leigh Squires | SP #1 |
| Ronna Neuenschwander | Demi Tut Cups, Pyramid Teapot |
| Lisa von Rosenstiel | Hawaiian Shirt & Dicko’s Skirt |
| Anne Noggle | Shelly and Her Sister Mim |
| Margaret Randall | Mother and Daughter |
| Acoma Woman | |
| Anne Noggle | Agnes in Fur Collar |
| Deborah Klibanoff | Always Looking |
| Myrna Yoder | The Dance |
| Renée Romanowski | Seeds |
| Elizabeth Layton | Stroke |
| Martha Wehrle | Self-Portrait |
| Deidre Scherer | Maria in Memory |
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PROSE
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| Carol Orlock | There Are Colors |
| Laurel Rust | Another Part of the Country |
| Jan Clausen | Yellow Jackets |
| Linda Hogan | Crow |
| M. Ann Spiers | The Last Fringie |
| Andrea Carlisle | A Call to Grace |
| Marisha Chamerblain | Firewood |
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ESSAYS
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| Diane Glancy | Journey to the Any-Yun-Wiyu |
| Pat Mora | Unseen Teachers |
| The Piano Tuner by C. Naishan | |
| Ingrid Wendt | Splitting Open: Finding Sharon Olds’s “Young Mothers IX” |
| Faedra Kosh | The Right Connection |
| Jennifer Stabler-Holland | An Independent Path |
| Barbara Thomas | On Life and Art: An Odyssey |
| Betty LaDuke | Stirring a Ruckus |
| Gail Tremblay | Native American Women’s Art and the Contemporary Movement |
| Rebecca Gordon | Feminism and Literacy |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | A Feminine Inscription |
| Olga Broumas | Bliss |
| Ada Medina | Farewell to Ana |
Reviews
“The creative thinking of a female consciousness.” —Whole Earth Review
“Fine writing by women.” —Women’s Review of Books
“CALYX collects its finest writing from the last decade.” —USA Today
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