CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women
Volume 23 Number 3
Winter 2007
Front Cover Art: “Knight Figure 470” by Linda Stein
Back Cover Art: “Three Knights Emerging 532-534” by Linda Stein
Statements on page 117
CONTENTS
Volume 23, Number 3
2006 LOIS CRANSTON MEMORIAL POETRY PRIZE WINNER
Gail Griffin 6 War Stories
POETRY
Betty Blevins Gore 7 Lessons
Judith Sornberger 8 Protest
9 Final Bird Poem for My Mother
Joan I. Siegel 11 My Mother’s Bitter Fruit
Sheila Demetre 19 Wearing My Mother’s Coat
Susan Bockhoff 20 Amnesia
Ellen Sullins 22 Homage to a Red Honda Civic
Rebecca Meredith 24 The Widows
Irene de la Bretonne Hays 25 A Thin Place
Madelyn Garner 39 Memory of an Artist’s Death
Tara Bray 40 Washoe Valley Bird Refuge: Three Days
Christine Marshall 42 Suspension
Maureen A. Sherbondy 44 Existential Goldilocks
46 Alice at AA
Nancy Richardson 48 Myopia
Stephanie Coyne DeGhett 78 Here’s a Thing I’ve Learned
Suzan Jantz 80 Summer for My Father and Me
Annette Orrock 82 Sign of the Z
Katy Didden 84 Shopping for Bridal Gowns with My Cousin
Virginia Corrie-Cozart 86 On the Edge of the Garden
PROSE
Naomi Benaron 12 The Chemical Nature of Things
Annie Weatherwax 26 Eating Cake
B. Harper Buie 65 Woolly Adelgids
Raima Evan 87 Gittel and the Golden Carp
ART
Monique Passicot 49 The Other
50 The Quilted
51 City Boy
Smith Eliot 52 Wallflowers
53 A Bird in the Hand
Beryl Goldberg 54 Grameen Bank, Women’s Meeting,
Tangail District, Amurhi Branch, Bangladesh
55 Woman, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
56 Tuareg Girl, Sahara Desert, Niger
57 Charcoal Maker, Kaolack, Senegal
Edie Schenkel Wolfe 58 “The unrealized is but a seed,
In time to wake and to be freed.”
59 “The promise lost to withheld life
Is born again When Death becomes
the Dark Midwife.”
Susan Van Geest 60 Waiting
Becky Holtzman 61 Seedbed
62 Dwelling
63 Accommodations
Kristin Holdgrafer 64 Artist
NORTHWEST BOOK REVIEWS
Diane Lockward 96 Red Jess by Judith Montgomery
Marie Krohn 98 Living Among Headstones: Life in a
Country Cemetery by Shannon Applegate
BOOK REVIEWS
Kathryn Kirkpatrick 100 Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon:
Women’s Poems from Tang China,
Translated with an introduction
by Jeanne Larsen
Julie R. Enszer 102 Gittel, the Would-Be Messiah
by Naomi Feigelson Chase
Penelope Scambly Schott 103 Homefront by Patricia Monaghan
Susan Meyers 105 Wake Wake Wake by Valerie Nieman
Ann Lauinger 107 Anthropologist in Ohio by Susan H. Case
Rocío G. Davis 109 Mayor of the Roses by Marianne Villanueva
Liz Webster 110 The Hermaprodite by Julia Ward Howe
Carol Bosworth 112 Blood of My Blood: The Lost First Novel of
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,
Edited by Anne Blythe Meriwether
MEMORIAM
116 Tee A. Corrine
CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES
122
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