Cover Art: “Belly” by Leslie Rech

(clay, glaze, nylon, 18”x 20”x12”)

CALYX, A JOURNAL OF ART AND LITERATURE BY WOMEN

Volume 19 Number 1

Winter 1999/2000

TABLE OF CONTENTS

POETRY

Bonita Olson 6 Substantial

Mariana Ruybalid 7 Body Electric

Melissa S. Stein 24 Holding

Edythe Haendel Schwartz 25      Apricot Crisp

Marge Piercy 26 My Mother Gives Me Her Recipe

                                                       28  Sins of Omission

Kelli Russell Agodon      29 Geography

31 Fifty Knots

Jill McGrath 46 Baths in Iowa

Nancy Rainey     48 Choosing This Year’s Junior Miss

Sylvia Bortin 79 Salt on My Hands

Joan I. Siegel      80 Answer

Andrea Potos     81 Counting

82 Housework Prayer

Nancy Dahlberg 86 We All Fall Down

87 Hens and Chickens

Pamela Uschuk 88 Brewing Borscht

Dilruba Ahmed 90 Bangladeshi-American

92 Secrets

Carolyn Flynn     105 To Fly

Marilyn Johnston 115 Returning from War

Jeanne Emmons 117 To a Friend Who Does Not Answer My Letters

120 Are You Washed?

Ann Struthers     122 Effie Harrelson’s Treasures, 1934

PROSE

Diane Glazman 10 My Body

Tricia Currans-Sheehan 32 The Knights of Columbus

Brenda Lee Buttner 65 The Town After

Kathleen A. Rogers 83 Ironing Pillowcases

Meera Nair 93 Summer

Anna Balint 107 At Risk

ART

Pacia Sallomi      49 Walking on Eggshells

Jan Camp 50 Third Generations

51 Fidelity Is a Gift

Ginny Lee 52 White Barn

53 Cornfield, Rt. 36

54 Glowing Hands

55 Porch Swing, Late Afternoon

Catharina Marlowe 56  Peoria Road

57 Finley Wildlife Reserve, 1999

 58  Cloud Reflections, Holland

Susan Smolinski 59 The Blue Dream

Leslie Rech 60 Female Perversions

61 Mother Love (detail)

Sheri Rice 62 Time to Play

63 Traveler

64 Cat Treats

BOOK REVIEWS

Anne Doolittle    123 Four Testimonies by Kate Daniels

Bonnie Blader     124 The Crack in Everything by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Sandra Yannone 126 Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation by Karla Jay

Kathleen A. Kelly 128 Adiós, Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity edited by Ophira Edut

Diane Finley 130 A Whole New Ball Game: Women’s Literature on Women’s Sport edited by Joli Sandoz

IN MEMORIAM

132 Peggy J. Taylor

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

140