CALYX, A JOURNAL OF ART AND LITERATURE BYW OMEN

Summer 1999

Volume 18:3

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Cover Art: “Minstrel” by Katherine Ace

 

CALYX, A Journal of Art and LIterature by Women

Volume 18 number 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS

POETRY

Lynn Bowmaster 7 There in the Shadow of Mountains Still to Come

Jessica Lamb 8 Go Fish

9 The Door

Janice Pang 10 Daughter

Pesha Gertler 21 Standing with Chiyo-ni

22 Y’art Tzeit

Lois Rosen 23 Pigeon

26  Abracadabra

Lola Rodriguez 36 Madness Is Bald

Tess Thompson 38 Women’s Shelter, Night

Lisa Kerr 39 Stigmata

Peggy J. Taylor 40 Brigit

41 In the Shower

Janet Ruhe-Schoen 42 Doña Paciencia

Robin Morgan    44 Fixed Canon

Janell Moon 46 Photophobic

47 Imprints of the Mind

Tami Haaland     48 Feeding the Sea Girl

Opal Palmer Adisa 65    My Turn Now

67 We’re the Land

Maria Ercilla 68 Home

Janet Wondra     88 Separation

Nydia Rojas 90 Blank Wall

Mina Kumar 92 Summer Poem #3

94 The Daughter

Christine E. Montross     103 Hands

April Selley 106 The Three Middle-Aged Women in Speed

108 Mrs. Santa Claus Decides to Move to Florida

Michelle Ben-Hur 110 Corpus Delicti

Jane Bailey 112 Our Lady of the Fallen Breasts

114 A Week Before the Factory Layoffs Began

JoAnn Young     115 Black Stockings

Sandra Yannone 116 1984

Susan Richardson 118 Intimacy

Garnett Kilberg Cohen 130 Nuts

132 Night Son

Beth Thompson 134 Human Nature

 

PROSE

Jan Hodgman  11 Tanuki

Anne Spollen  28  The Under Things

Catherine Brady 70 Don’t Run

Crystal E. Wilkinson 95 Humming Yesterday

Laurie Sleeper 119  Simple Statements

 

ART

Ann L. DuBois  49 Peach

50 Apple Hear

51 Plum Tomato

Kim Knauer  52 The Bitch

53 The Pitter Patter of Little Feet

Barbara Spring  54 Willie B. Abel

55 Double Take

Amy Cropper 56  Embedded Bookcase, August 1997

57 Embedded Bookcase, December 1998

Katherine Ace  58  Sunday

59 Saturday: Setting the Table

60 August: All Dressed Up

61 December: St. Eve

Kathy Sloane 62 Watching and Waiting

63  Pleated Skirts

64 My Turn Now

66 We’re the Land

 

NORTHWEST BOOK REVIEWS

Paulann Petersen 135 Clearwater by Alice Derry

Linda Hathaway Bunza 136  Entomologist’s Dreambook by Sherron Norlen

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Jennifer Ho 139 What the Fortune Teller Didn’t Say by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Janet Aalfs 140 Impulse to Fly by Almitra David

141 Finding the Bear by Gail Thomas

Eleanor J. Bader 143  Ella Price’s Journal by Dorothy Bryant

143 Miss Giardino by Dorothy Bryant

Marlene Lee 145  The Everlasting Rock by Feng Zong-Pu

Bettina Heinz 146  Field of Vision by Lisa Knopp

 

IN MEMORIAM

148 Deborah Kaufmann

149 Anne Elizabeth “Izzie” Harbaugh

 

 

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

156