CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women

July 2004

Volume 22 Number 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PROSE

Penny Susan Rose   6  Dust

Cristina Peralejo   23   Manang

Maeve Mullen Ellis   41   All Her Dreams

E. B. Vandiver  75   Sugar, Magic, Grace

Doris Lynch  88  The Denali Widows’ Club

POETRY

A. F. Thomas  17  Oak Leaf

Willa Schmidt   18   Late

Mary Lou Sanelli    20   The Scent

Ruth Irupé Sanabria   22   Papi’s Afro Pick

Andrea Potos  35  Christmas Eve

Darlene D. Montonaro  36     The Alchemists

Alison Townsend    38   Yellow October

              40   My Grandmother’s Roses

Elizabeth Tibbetts   65   Easy to Believe

Susan Bockhoff    66   Teaching My Daughter to Sing Like Ethel Merman

Jo Doran   68   Punctuation

69   First Death

Shirley J. Brewer   70   Consolation

Rose Marcel de Hermanas    71    Death: False Alarm

Jean Petrolle  72   Death-Song

Carla Baku   74   In Eva’s Eyes

Maureen Eppstein    84  Another Story About Love

A. F. Thomas  85  Elegy for a Suicide

Sarah Chan   86  The Retired Seamstress

Joan Maiers   87   Moving Targets

Maureen A. Sherbondy  100  Invitation

Brook Hobson   101  Constance Joy

ART

Helen R. Klebesadel   49  Sacred Heart

              50 Cycles

             51 Cycles II

              52  Tree of Life

              53  Freedom Quilt: The Underground Railroad

Gloria Rodriguez Calero  54  JC Millennium

              55  Barrio Girls

Liz Whitney Quisgard  56  Columns and Wall Hangings

              57  Folds

              58 Classical Revival

              59  Baroque Revival

Barbara Rachko  60   Scene Fifteen: Living Room

              61  Truth Betrayed by Innocence

Alejandro Vernon   62   The Fish

              63 Pears

              64  Morning Coffee

NORTHWEST BOOK REVIEWS

Elizabeth McLagan  104  Rising and Falling by Carolyn Reynolds Miller

Eleanor Berry 105  Go Where the Landshed Takes You by Jane Glazer

BOOK REVIEWS

Ann B. Knox  107   Listening for Wings by Maxine Combs

Margo Stever 108   Shards by Ann Holmes

Alice Ann Eberman   109  The Last Thing You Get to Know by Betty Davis Miller

Ingrid Wendt  111  The Making of a Matriot: Poetry and Prose 1991-2003 by Frances Payne Adler

Rocío G. Davis 113  The Braided Tongue by Roshni Rustomji

IN MEMORIAM

              115  Maxine Combs

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTE

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