Cover Art: “Wishing Well” by Katherine Ace

(36”x48”, alkyd/oil)

CALYX, A JOURNAL OF ART AND LITERATURE BY WOMEN

SPECIAL TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

Volume 20 number 1

Summer 2001

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors   6   Preface

Kathleen Alcalá   8  Introduction

POETRY

Frances Payne Adler 9 The Voices Are Coming Up

                                               10   A Call to Arms and Breast Cancer

Elizabeth McLagan  12  And the Eyes of the Blind Shall Be Opened

Betsy Johnson-Miller 14  The Liturgy of the Table

Janine H. Oshiro 15  Altar Living

Jane Bailey  16  You Know Her

              17  Ceasefire

Alice Derry  18  Anne

Jasmine Donahaye  20 Reprieve

Cortney Davis  21 Nunca Tu Alma

                          22 It Is August 24th

Ellen Bass  24  Apology to Anne

Deborah Byrne 26  Farthest Thoughts

Marina Tsvetaeva  27 Insomnia

Hazel Hall 49 Made of Crêpe de Chine

              50 A Baby’s Dress

              51  Maker of Songs

Ilze Klavina Mueller  52   Closeted Lesbian Infiltrates Latvian Knitters’ Group

Belinda Kremer  54  My Super Bowl

Anita Sullivan  55  Paradise

              56  Mother and Son Negotiate

Lois Rosen 58  Provider

Judith Werner 60 Ethel Rosenberg and Me

Diane Lillian Averill  62  Shoplifter Hands

ART

Katherine Ace 33  Tea Party with Open Fruit

Iggi Green  34    Birdie

Gail Tremblay  35  In Search for the Ultimate Roach Joke

Shelly Corbett 36  Occupying Himself with Her

Sheri Rice 37  Getaway

Jennifer Stabler Holland  38  Queen of Hearts

Chi Meredith 39  Jade Vase

Manya Shapiro 40 Little Black Dress

Betty LaDuke 41  Eritrea: War Harvest

Monique Passicot   42  The Red Ribbon Mask

Angelita Surmon  43 Waiting

Annette Gurdjian  44  The Centaur

Jane Orleman  45  Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil

Joanna Thomas 46 Palmistry

Claudia Cave 47 Blowen in the Wind

Kristina Kennedy Daniels   48  Painted Trillium

PROSE

Diana Ma 63 Ghost Story

Elaine Winer 78  Rainbows and Roses

Tamara Musafia 87  Teeth

M. Evelina Galang  91   Learning to Fight: On the Death of Lola Lucia Alvarez

Monique de Varennes 98  Cabeza

Susan Vreeland 110  Neptune’s Lung

BOOK REVIEWS

Alice Ann Eberman 123  The Collected Poems of Hazel Hall edited by John Witte

Susan Stinson  124   Reach by Janet E. Aalfs

Sandra Cookson  124  Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry by Alice Fulton

Marie Krohn 126  I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory by Patricia Hampl

Marianna Wright  128  Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

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