Cover Art: “Oregon Cave #4” by Marnie Jenkins

(silver photo/airbrush, 16” x 20”)

CALYX, A JOURNAL OF ART AND LITERATURE BY WOMEN

 Volume 21 Number 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PROSE

Anna Balint 6 Gypsies on the Lawn

Smoky Trudeau 27 Good-bye, Emily Dickinson

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 49 Light Skin

Carmen Carrión 71 Primavera

Elana Zaiman      85 Silence

Chauna Craig     96 Pluma Piluma and the Utopian Turtle Top: A Bedtime Story for Women Writers

POETRY

Joanie DiMartino 16 Great-Aunt Josephine: Lost Photographs

Diane Swan 17 Compost

18 Elizabeth Park Pond

Joan Rudel 19 Short on Memories of Mother

Janine Kelley      20 Winter Stars

22 Welfare at Christmas

Judith Grey 24 Under the Sun

Kate Gray 26 Another Sunset We Survive

Christine Stewart-Nuñez 64 Sestina of Restraint

Susan Elbe 66 My Angel

68 On the Kenai Peninsula, 2 a.m.

Kate Aver Avraham 70 If You’re Already on the Road at 5 a.m.

Chelsea Rathburn 90 The Seed

Jocelyn Tinker Seagrave 91 Ants

Kelly Terwilliger 92 The Swifts

Melissa Crowe 94 I Watch Nature While Breastfeeding

Cassie Premo Steele 95 Walking on the Backs of Whales

ART

Karen Fitzgerald 33 Fountain

34 Sparrow’s Eye

35 Pearl

Betty LaDuke     36 Maya Antezik Cooperative

37 No Al Plan Puebla Panama

Susan Brown 38 Monument to New York City

39 Wild Horses Couldn’t Stop Her

Sarah Hauser 40 Lady with Four Dogs in Central Park

41 Howl-lelujah!

42 George Sleeping in Sun, Panchito, Claude and Pablo II, Magellen

43 Mr. Tomrose & Misty, Harold & Ernst Cross 34th St., Discussing the Future, Baby & Ballerina

Meredith (Marnie) Jenkins 44  Seal Rock #3

45 Oregon Coast #4

Susan Seubert    46 Chimeras: Hotel #2

47 Chimeras: Hotel #3

48 Alliumphobia

BOOK REVIEWS

Ingrid Wendt 107 Keesha’s House by Helen Frost

J. Gabriel Scala 109 Sails the Wind Left Behind by Alessandra Lynch

Lisa MB Simons 110 Finding Caruso by Kim Barnes

Constance Studer 112 I Knew a Woman: The Experience of the Female Body by Cortney Davis

Elizabeth Webster 114 The Height and Depth of Everything by Katherine Haake

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

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