Present Tense

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Writing and Art by Young Women, CALYX Journal Vol. 16:3

Edited by Micki Reaman and the CALYX Young Women’s Editorial Collective

Bumbershoot Bookfair Award

Pushcart Prize for contributor Kristin King’s story “The Wings”

CALYX celebrated its 20th anniversary with the publication of Present Tense. This groundbreaking anthology showcased the original art and literature of women linked by their youth, women of different sexual orientations, ethnicities, and socio-economic backgrounds, including future stars such as Nomy Lamm and Kristin King. At different moments, this collection is multicultural, post-industrial, chick-lit and experimental. Always, it is striking and utterly contemporary.

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Micki Reaman was CALYX’s Managing Editor. Other members of the Young Women’s Editorial Collective: Amy Agnello, Maria Braganza, Sonia Gomez, Laura McFarland, Zola Mumford, Teri Mae Rutledge, Mira Shimabukuro, and Megan Smith.

PROSE
Cathy Malia Lowenberg Excisions of the Flesh
Jennifer Kircher Eastern Frontier
M. M. Bilas The Floating Sari
Deborah L. Blicher The Front Lines
Ann E. Green Selling Out: Reflections of a Farm Daughter
Emily Regan Wills The Trip from HECK: Day Two, Wednesday, 8/16
Julianna Parr Avocado Security
Zelda Lockhart Mulberry Tree
Rebecca Lavine Afterward
Nomy Lamm not my teenage drama
Kristin King The Wings
POETRY
Kristin Herbert Conceiving of Me
Alma García Comiendoselo a los muertos (Eating Your Dead)
Lauri Conner A Father’s Child
Kahlil Sucgang Apuzen learning Philippine history
Aliens
Margaret Almon Small Stones
Jana Unkel growth
Sarah Avery For My Sister at 17
Laurie McKiernan 400 south 5th street
onions
Mary Beth Deline Melissa Is My Name
Nonie Proffit Nightshift
Laura Cherry On the Bridge
Carrie Mesrobian The Sun Goes Down in the Suburbs
Juliette Torrez TV Child
Germaine Curry Stopped at the Tracks
Susan Marshall one minute filled
Debbra Palmer Wade’s Hoggers
Victoria Told Me Her Secret
Emily Lloyd My Breasts: Two Views
Katherine Wise excerpt from the law school mailbox sex poems
Ruther Adermann Trinity
ART
Priti Darooka Nostalgia
A Landscape for My Mom
Stacey Dressen-McQueen Untitled
Untitled
Nicole M. Rawlins Salome
Alex Zaphiris Kelly
Rebecca Holden Krakow, 1994
Anniversary
Nancy Havlick Rhythm Unbroken
Magda Baker Gallon of Milk
R. Teri Memolo Untitled (sunflower)
Untitled (frog)
Julianna Parr Dream of a Queerbit Friend
Sabrina Davis From Mother to Son
Cara Judea Alhadeff Untitled
Untitled
Dorothy Eileen Goode Untitled, October 1993
Leslie Riibe Nightgown
Andrea Nicolich I Wear Your Ring
Monica Nuvamsa Untitled
BOOK REVIEWS
Becky Rodia Girl Soldier by Denise Duhamel
Dora Alicia Ramirez Her Wild American Self by M. Evelina Galang
Teri Mee Rutledge Seeing Dell by Carol Guess
Maria Isabel Rodriguez Hispanic, Female and Young: An Anthology Edited by Phyllis Tashlik
Reviews

“Their work is powerful and sometimes disturbing.” —Library Journal

“Radiating the enthusiasm and conviction of its authors and editors, this rich sampling of talent is an unabashed celebration of subjectivity.” —Publishers Weekly

“Sistas, you sing, make my spine shiver: what you know, I know—the diaspora of your lives crystallizing in words, the pissed-off frantic sweet lyric the resounds for all of us here in present tense. My thanks to you.” —Lois-Ann Yamanaka, author of Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers

“Wonderful…. [A] lively, engrossing collection of writing and art by emerging talent.” —Tee A. Corinne, author of The Cunt Coloring Book

Present Tense is bound to speak also for the future! A rich, vibrant collage of poetry, stories and essays…. Here is a carnival of writers whom we would all be wise to listen to, a generation that has now come into its own.” —Shirley Geok-lin Lim, author of Among the White Moon Faces

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