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
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
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