Cover Art: “Arch” by Laura Ross-Paul

(36”x40”, oil and wax on canvas)

CALYX, A JOURNAL OF ART AND L;ITERATURE BY WOMEN

Volume 21 Number 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LOIS CRANSTON MEMORIAL POETRY PRIZE WINNER

Susan Elbe 6 Dog Days

PROSE

Sallie Bingham 9 The Splinter

Anne Warren Smith 27 My Mother’s Girdle

Elise Juska 54 Like Two People Who Have Never Met

Muriel Moulton 74 Reaching for Sunlight

Nicole Louise Reid 94 Moving

POETRY

Ivy Dempsey 21 The Laundry

Monique Gagnon 22 Stoicism

Eleanor Berry     24 The One Across

Judith Strasser    26 The Forties Look

Terry Godbey     32 Beauty Lessons at 12

Kathryn Kirkpatrick 49 Wal-Mart Sonnet

Lorraine Healy 50 Boning

Leslie J. Brett     52 To the Daddy Who Braids Hair

Holly Feldman Karapetkova 53 A Love Poem

Angela Patten     68 The Working Classes

Mary Makofske 70 Bureau of Engraving

K.E. Duffin 72 Youth and Age

Lorna Knowles Blake     83 Listening to Fidél

84 Because I Have No Accent

Annie Lugthart 86 Poem for Cura, Goddess Who First Fashioned Humans from Clay

Pat Vivian 87 Opera Singer at Golden Fields Manor

88 Eskimo Girls in the Jesuit Orphanage

Kelley Conway 90 For Judy, The First to Save Me

91 Birthday

Tina Tau McMahon 92 An Old Scots Word

93 At Home

ART

Roxanne Hills     33 Swimmers

Jessica Perry 34 Kristen in Water

35 Kelsey and the Monk

Laura Ross-Paul 36 Falls

37 Stilts

38 Teeter

39 Exit Decision

40 Suspension

Melinda Thorsnes 41      Fit to Be Tied

4 On the Benefits of Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie

43 Mona’s Nice Outing

44 The Dealers

45 Hokey Pokey

Alexis Callender 46 Green Sky in Texas

47 Untitled

Scarlett Decker 48 Uncle Albert

NORTHWEST BOOK REVIEWS

Gail Tremblay     107 Beneath My Heart: Poetry by Janice Gould

108 Earthquake Weather by Janice Gould

Madeline DeFrees 110 Women in the Garden by Mary Lou Sanelli

Carmen Germain 111 The Immigrant’s Table by Mary Lou Sanelli

BOOK REVIEWS

Ingrid Wendt 112 Trans by Hilda Raz

Bonnie Blader     114 Essays: The riddle song and other rememberings by Rebecca McClanahan

Jenn McKee 115 Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed by Mimi Schwartz

Julie Mayeda 116 Any Small Thing Can Save You: A Bestiary by Christina Adam

Sandra Tarling 118 The Salt Letters by Christine Balint

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

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