CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women
Volume 22:2
Winter 2005
TABLE OF CONTENTS
POETRY
2004 LOIS CRANSTON MEMORIAL POETRY PRIZE WINNER
Deborah Narin-Wells 6 Eurydice Speaks From the Basement
Julia Alter 8 The Pirate and the Girl
10 What Hums Inside
Francesca Bel 22 Walking Austin
Rebecca Baggett 23 Titmouse
Lorene Lamothe 24 Ogunquit
Dale Griffiths Stamos 26 Green
Diana Pinckney 27 Invitation In April
Mary Schinhofen 40 Navigating
Priscilla Atkins 41 How Light Enters a Train Station
P.J. Taylor 42 Buzz of the Yellow Jacket
Gwendolyn Morgan 43 alis volat propris
Kelly Madigan Erlandson 44 Rally
Terry Martin 46 If We Could Go Out to Lunch
Beverly Burch 70 After We Fight
Rebecca Morgan Frank 71 Song of the Rattling Pipes
Claudia M. Reder 72 Finding My Voice
Barbara Presnell 74 Charlene Works in Quality Control
76 Velma in Packaging
Doris Lynch 78 The Fate of Hair
Bethany Reid 79 Heart Transplants
Mary Lou Sanelli 80 Naming the Birds
Gayle Eleanor 82 Sur le Coq
Susan Bockhoff 88 The Happiest Moment of Your Life
Toni Van Deusen 90 The Pomegranate
Jan Bailey 91 We Dye Our Hair Red
Maureen Tolman Flannery 92 The Poet’s Wife
Margaret Okere 94 Anniversary
Susan Terris 95 Grandmother’s Hands
Michelle Battiste 96 Learning the Dead Language
PROSE
Cora Goss-Grubbs 11 Becoming Mother
Natalie Smith Parra 28 Saving My Life
Pastora Gutierrez 48 La Vida Nueva Women’s Weaving Cooperative
Amontaine Woods 65 Free Angela
Dorothy Blackcrow Mack 83 Once I Lived Without Money, Yet I Was Not Poor
Diane Johnston Hamm 98 The Believer
ART
La Vida Nueva Weaving Cooperative 49 Maria Susana Vicenta Ruiz
50 Untitled
51 Estrellas y Grecas
52 La Greca de la Vida y La Muerte
Sara Paulsen 53 Under IV
54 Under I
55 Under V
Isabelle Maynard 56 At the Table
57 Verbena Wheelies
Regina Stadnik 58 Still Life on White
59 Tally 2
60 Tally 3
61 Tally 5
Becki Smith 62 Lightning Shredder
63 Girl on Pedestal with Empty Cup
64 Despair/Possibility
NORTHWEST BOOK REVIEWS
Janet McCann 103 The Angle of Sharpest Ascending by Ingrid Wendt
Barbara Drake 105 Horses and the Human Soul by Judith Barrington
Amontaine Woods 107 Horse Thief by Anna Balint
BOOK REVIEWS
Alice Ann Eberman 108 Sisters of the Earth: Women’s Prose & Poetry about Nature
edited by Lorraine Anderson
Ingrid Wendt 109 Eve’s Red Dress by Diane Lockward
Susan Elbe 111 The Blue Dress by Alison Townsend
Claire Keyes 112 I Will Say Beauty by Carol Frost
Diane Lockward 113 Small Knots by Kelli Agodon
MEMORIAM
116 Rita Darlene Disroe
LOIS CRANSTON MEMORIAL PRIZE WINNERS
120
CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES
122
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