Description
Margarita Donnelly was a founding editor of CALYX and received the American Book Award for co-editing The Forbidden Stitch. Beverly McFarland was the Senior Editor of CALYX and co-edited A Line of Cutting Women. Micki Reaman was the Managing Editor of CALYX and co-edited Present Tense, which won a Pushcart Prize and a Bumbershoot Book Fair Award.
| Ursula K. Le Guin | For CALYX |
| Janet E. Aalfs | Sewing the Torn Sleeve |
| Frances Payne Adler | Riding the Eye |
| The Voices Are Coming Up | |
| Marjorie Agosín | Mi Estomago/My Belly |
| Questions | |
| Anna Akhmatova | In the Evening |
| As if with a straw… | |
| Jody Aliesan | there is no real edge to anything |
| Paula Gunn Allen | Weed |
| Dear World: | |
| Julia Alvarez | Against Cinderella |
| Judith Arcana | Great with Child |
| Diane Lillian Averill | Shoplifter Hands |
| Deborah Bacharach | The New Joke |
| Rebecca Baggett | From Art of the Amish: A Quilt Exhibition |
| Rachel: Queen Charolette’s Crown | |
| Rachel: Crown of Thorns | |
| Anna: Rose of Sharon | |
| Jane Bailey | Ceasefire |
| Barbara Baldwin | A Field of Poppies |
| Relics | |
| Judith Barrington | Blood |
| You There… | |
| Ellen Bass | To Praise |
| Sujata Bhatt | What Does One Write When the World Starts to Disappear? |
| Written After Hearing About the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan— | |
| Gloria Bird | The Women Fell like Beautiful Horses |
| Olga Broumas | Old Wives’ Tale |
| Amazon Twins | |
| Rosario Castellanos | Love |
| Return | |
| Diana Chang | On Being in the Midwest |
| Marilyn Chin | We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra |
| Jo Whitehorse Cochran | To Keep the Spirits |
| Kathleen Crown | Necklace: Rich Pink Corona Round a Flashing Yellow Heart |
| The Holy Ghost Flies into Second Baptist on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge | |
| Cortney Davis | The Smoke We Make Pictures Of |
| It Is August 24th | |
| Madeline DeFrees | From Figures for a Carrousel: 3. The Music. |
| Sheila Demetre | A Woman Is Running for Her Life |
| Alice Derry | Anne |
| Chitra Divakaruni | The Quilt |
| The Alley of Flowers | |
| Susan Elbe | Practicing Eternity |
| Maria Ercilla | Oysters and Zarzuelas |
| Stephanie Farrow | The Civil War |
| Pesha Gertler | The Right Thing |
| Standing with Chiyo-Ni | |
| Diane Glancy | Great Indian Father in the Subway |
| Lunar Eclipse, July 6, 1982 | |
| Jane Glazer | Final Disposition |
| Point of No Return | |
| Natalie Goldberg | Two Iowa Farmers |
| Carol Gordon | Calling Out the Names |
| Rebecca Gordon | Adolescence |
| Nights in Siuna | |
| Janice Gould | Going Home |
| Tanana Valley | |
| Renée Gregorio | The Long Hill of Garrapata |
| Marilyn Hacker | Aubade I |
| Aubade II | |
| Jessica Hagedorn | The Song of Bullets |
| Hazel Hall | Maker of Songs |
| Made of Crêpe de Chine | |
| A Baby’s Dress | |
| Leigh Hancock | Rain on Snow |
| Jana Harris | Fever |
| Sending the Mare to Auction | |
| Jean Hegland | The Crone I Will Become |
| Judith Hemschemeyer | Commandments |
| O Mother My Giant Redwood | |
| Donna Henderson | Transparent Woman |
| Jane Hilberry | Crazy Jane Goes to Painting Class |
| Jane Hirshfield | The Stream of It |
| Picnic | |
| Sibyl James | How I’ll Live Then |
| The Sisters of Saida Manoubia | |
| Terri L. Jewell | Felled Shadows |
| Sistah Flo | |
| LuAnn Keener | Dehorning the Yearlings |
| Kalehua Parrilla Kim | Ka Hale/The Nurturing Place |
| Barbara Kingsolver | The Middle Daughter |
| Remembering the Moon Survives | |
| Sandra Kohler | Why a Woman Can’t Be Pope |
| From Ars Poetica Feminae: Vessel | |
| Joan Larkin | Risks: |
| Self-Love | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | At the Party |
| His Daughter | |
| Shirley Geok-lin Lim | Pantoun for Chinese Women |
| Anuradha Mahapatra | Tamburā |
| Lin Max | Stone Fruit |
| When the Tules Are Peppered with Red-Winged Blackbirds | |
| Judith McCombs | Epithet |
| Love Poem, Later | |
| Colleen J. McElroy | Learning to Swim at Forty-Five |
| To Welcome a Changeling | |
| Virginia McGuire | Leaning into the Tilt |
| Elizabeth McLagan | At Twelve |
| Reading the Names | |
| Deborah A. Miranda | Stories I Tell My Daughter |
| Susan Moon | Unintended |
| Pat Mora | Bruja: Witch |
| Loss of Control | |
| Cherríe Moraga | La Dulce Culpa |
| Robin Morgan | Geography Lesson |
| Sharon Olds | The Language of the Brag |
| Alicia Ostriker | From: To Love Is |
| The Idea of Making Love | |
| Debbra Palmer | Wade’s Hoggers |
| Molly Peacock | Sweet Time |
| The Veil of It | |
| Paulann Petersen | Groom of the Animal-Bride |
| I Listen to Alice Walker on a Pocket Radio | |
| Marge Piercy | The air like stained glass cuts me |
| Andrea Potos | The One Red-Haired Summer |
| Twenty Years Later, to a Friend | |
| Margaret Randall | I Want the Words Back |
| Vicki Reitenauer | Wife Of |
| Jennifer Richter | Everywhere the Earth Is Opening |
| Madonna del Parto: Our Lady of Birth-Giving | |
| Wendy Rose | Ta Tiopa Maza Win/Iron Door Woman |
| May Sarton | The Silence Now |
| Mira Chieko Shimabukuro | After the Separation, dad Takes Me to the Dance for the Dead |
| Maurya Simon | Snow |
| Lyubov Sirota | Your Glance Will Trip on My Shadow |
| Judith Sornberger | Wallpapering to Patsy Cline |
| When She Can’t Sleep | |
| Susan Spady | Tending Flowers |
| The Push-Pull of This Love | |
| Alfonsina Storni | You Want Me White |
| Wislawa Szymborska | Drinking Wine |
| The Woman’s Portrait | |
| Mary Tallmountain | Brother Wolverine |
| Indian Blood | |
| Alison Townsend | Persephone in America |
| Haunani-Kay Trask | Chant of Lamentation |
| Gail Tremblay | Urban Indians, Pioneer Square, Seattle |
| Surviving | |
| Connie Voisine | Blue Hat |
| Emily Warn | Une Nuit Blanche |
| Carole Boston Weatherford | Charleston Baskets |
| The Ladies of Dimbaza | |
| Ingrid Wendt | Singing the Mozart Requiem |
| Judith Werner | Ethel Rosenberg and Me |
| Eleanor Wilner | Operations: Desert Shield, Desert Storm |
| Miriam’s Song | |
| Merle Woo | Under a Full Moon |
| Elizabeth Woody | Speaking Hands |
| Mitsuye Yamada | The Club |
Reviews
“A strong, diverse, group of poets” —The Oregonian
“These voices come from an invigorating range of experiences and cultural perspectives…wonderful….” —Tacoma News Tribune
“This is an extraordinary anthology of women’s poetry that is both a landmark and a cause for celebration…powerful…. Highly recommended.” —Tulsa World
“Excellence…is evident in the quality of the poems in this anthology…. I’m most impressed with the substantial number of fine poems about the effects of war and ethnic cleansing…. Politics aside, it’s mostly just good poetry.” —Austin American Statesman
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