Cover Art: “Tug of War (West)” by Laura Ball

(10’x4’, oil on two canvases)

CALYX, A JOURNAL OF ART AND LITERATURE BY WOMEN

Volume 20 number 3

Summer 2002

TABLE OF CONTENTS

POETRY

Janet Aalfs 6    Everything I Could Want

8 Sewing the Torn Sleeves

Elizabeth Bradfield 24 Endurance

Toria Angelyn Clark 25 Duration

Kay Grindland    26 Stories That Might Be True

Corie Herman     27 Underneath

Suzanne Weiner 28 Swan

Candace Stover 29 Ironing the Antimacassars

Leigh Hancock 30 Rain on Snow

32 Driving the River an Hour Behind You

Jane Eklund     49 The Price of Apples

50 Downstairs in Paula’s Studio

Heather Hartley 52 Nudes in a New England Barn

Alison Townsend 59 Persephone in America

62 Accepting the Flowers I Did Not Choose

Rina Ferrarelli     73 Remembering Viola Liuzzo

Stephanie Farrow 74 The Civil War

Jane Taylor 76 Cranes and Frogs

Judith Arcana   84 Sealed Birth Records Challenged

85 Great with Child

Vicki Reitenauer 89 St. Joan of the Traffic Circle

90 Mother Mary of the China Cabinet

Linda Parsons Marion  92 Wedding Poem

PROSE

Teresa S. Mathes 9 Wings

Jennifer D. Munro 54 Navel Attire

Cara Collins 64 Sex and the Bible

Ellie Mering 77 How Thomas Is

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum 86 Magnificat

Suzanne Kamata 93 You’re So Lucky

ART

Nan Weed 33 Surrender

34 Guardian of the Seed

35 Learning to Fly

Kim Knauer  36 Poppets

37 Slut

Colleen Kong Savage 38 Daughter’s Portrait from Echoing Women

39 The Three of Us

Laura Ball 40 Blue Room Brawl

41 Embroilment and a Bather

MJ Seltzer 42 Wish

43 Personal Space

Claire Edna Hurrey 44 Vermont April

45 Cottonwood Thaw

Barbara Leventhal-Stern 46 Just a Little Bite

47 Games We Play

Michele Harris 48 What G-G-G-G’ma Told Me

BOOK REVIEWS

Charlotte Stewart 105 The Scent of Water: New and Selected Poems by Ivy Dempsey

Diane Westergaard 106 The Tiger Iris by Joan Swift

Susan Kan 108 I Want This World by Margaret Szumowski

Judith Sornberger 110    Bones of a Very Fine Hand by Marjorie Saiser

Jill Mortell 111 Rough Music by Deborah Digges

Margaret Szumowski   113 A Wound on Stone by Faye George

Lisa MB Simons 114 Hungry for the World by Kim Barnes

Lee Lawton  116 Peace at Heart by Barbara Drake

Kathleen A. Kelly 117 Caucasia by Danzy Senna

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

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