Cover Art: “Calling the Rains” by Camie Davis
(5.5’ x 3.5’, oil on canvas)
CALYX, A JOURNAL OF ART AND LITERATURE BY WOMEN
Volume 20 number 2
WINTER 2001/2002
TABLE OF CONTENTS
POETRY
Terry Blackhawk 6 What the Story Weaves the Spinner Tells
Susan Elbe 8 Practicing Eternity
Mary Azrael 10 Astronomy
Jeanne Lohmann 23 Instructions for Moving
Christina Hutchins 24 The Red Boat
Dianne Williams Stepp 26 Fogarty Creek
Wendy Simpson 27 There Are Two Lives
28 Learning to Read
Eileen Hennessy 49 United States Poem Number 13
Pramila Venkateswaran 50 Exile
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee 52 In My Mother-in-Law’s Kitchen
Jacqueline Lyons 63 The Miner’s Wife
64 The Dyer’s Wife
Beth Bretl 67 Nothing but the Weather
Mischelle Booher 68 Mom Stood on Her Head in the Dining Room
Judith McCombs 69 Stories Waiting to Happen
Jennifer Richter 77 Everywhere the Earth Is Opening
78 Madonna del Parto: Our Lady of Birth-Giving
79 The Ninth Month Feels like Dusk
Andrea Potos 80 Birthnight
Lori Jakiela 95 The Regulars
96 Catholic Charities Home for Unwed Mothers
Stephanie Dickinson 98 Ditch Lilies
Barbara Sanders 100 Strong Onion Lullaby
LouAnn Shepard Muhm 102 Waitress
Leilani Wright 104 Hard Times like This
Kathy Douglas 110 Nightcap
Anne Spollen 111 To Bertha Dorsett-Rochester
Wendell Hawken 112 Peeling Potatoes, a Damp Cloth Settles like a Mood
Kathleen Flenniken 114 Forty
PROSE
Enid Baron 12 The Archangel
Laura S. Distelheim 29 On Ruthie, Who Shouldn’t Slip Right By
G. Davies Jandrey 54 A Study in Newton’s First Law of Motion
Mimi Schwartz 72 A Night for Haroset
Charlotte Warren 81 Hands Up for Silence
Samantha Allen Storey 106 Boots
ART
Camie Davis 33 A Morning’s Feat
34 Night Shift
35 Lucky Come Greyhound
Donna Dodson 36 Jealousy
Lyn Gaza 37 Devil 1
Kathleen Gerard 38 Dawn, Taormina
39 Pensone Neri Before Lunch
Marcy B. Freedman 40 Pieces
Jill P. Stutzman 41 Dress 1
Beryl Shaw 42 Woman in a Hood
43 The Drawing Session
M. J. Anderson 44 Controcanto
45 Many Voices
46 Redemption
47 Al Massimo
Caroline E. Brown 48 Passing Time
BOOK REVIEWS
Kathleen A. Kelly 115 Tell Me by Kim Addonizio
Alice Ann Eberman 116 Ruining the Picture by Pimone Triplett
Camille-Yvette Welsch 117 Bad Judgment by Cathleen Calbert
118 How I Got Lost So Close to Home by Amy Dryansky
Gail Tremblay 120 No Parole Today by Laura Tohe
Alicia Conroy 122 Mother to Mother by Sindiwe Magona
Christine Cock 123 Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
Jenn McKee 124 Sleeping with One Eye Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival edited by Marilyn Kallet and Judith Ortiz Cofer
126 Living on the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer edited by Hilda Raz
Bettina Heinz 127 The Lesbian Family Life Cycle by Suzanne Slater
IN MEMORIAM
130 Lois Elaine Cranston
132 Barbara J. Rohde
CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES
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