Cover Art: “Eritrea: The Chickens, 1999” by Betty LaDuke

(50”x54”, acrylic)

CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women

Volume 19 number 3

Winter 2000/2001

TABLE OF CONTENTS

POETRY

Irene O’Garden 6 Offered Images

Mary F. C. Pratt 7 Coming Toward Home

Noelle Rydell      8 Inconceivable Conception

Christine Beyer 9 Alone in Our Bodies

Anna Citrino 10 The Ruby Heart of the Hand

Kelly Sterns 11 Kentucky Moon

Kalehua Parrilla Kim       28 Ka Hale/The Nurturing Place

Maureen Corcoran 30 The Father Garden

Kathryn Stripling Byer 32 Old

Elizabeth Carlson 60 All American Girls

62 An Atheist Prays

Kelley Conway 78 The Kiss

Dulce María Loynaz  80 When We Go to the Sea/Cuando Vayamos al Mar

81 Waterplay/Juegos de Agua

82 Unexpected Honey/Miel Imprevista

Janet Kenning 83 Poem About Education

Elizabeth McLagan 84 Reading the Names

Tracy May Adair 86 Take This

María Luisa Arroyo 88 barreras

Nancy Jean Hill 89 Beryllium Blunder

Paulann Petersen 90 Lane Change

Cathy Lauden  102  Retracing

Nancy Frederiksen 104 Bobbie, 1945

Rebecca Baggett 105     Salt

K. F. Hastings  106  Fairy Tales

Diana Ma 120 Pennies

121 The Sister Who Went West

Jaimee Kuperman 122  The Music I Want You to See

PROSE

Daniela Fischerová 12 My Conversations with Aunt Marie

Linda Maceri 49 What I Told the Highway Patrol

Karelia Stetz  64 Getting Over Friday Night

Kathy J. Karlson 92 Eleanor Roosevelt and the Tornado

Laura E. Miller 107 Let All Who Are Hungry

ART

Louanne Watley 33 Evelyn

34 Evelyn

35 Evelyn

36 Evelyn

37 Evelyn

Jaye Alison Moscariello 38 Always By Me…She is

39 Yes, Okay, If You Want to…or, What I Didn’t Say

Sandra Beck 40 Two Possibilities in Love

41 Earth Dialogue

Debra L. Hille  42 Family Tree (detail)

43 Family Tree

Susan Planalp 44 Beach

45 Queen

Alma Lopez 46 Diego

47 December 12

48 Santa Niña de Mochis

BOOK REVIEWS

Pat Cason 123 Grace Paley’s Life Stories: A Literary Biography by Judith Arcana

Roberta Gordenstein 124 Sor Juana’s Second Dream by Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Elaine Margolin 126 Room to Grow: Twenty-two Writers Encounter the Pleasures and Paradoxes of Raising Young Children edited by Christina Baker Kline

Martha K. Davis 127 Southwestern Women: New Voices, A Collection of Poems & Short Stories. Vol. I. edited by Caitlin L. Gannon

Amy O’Loughlin 129 Her Mother’s Ashes 2: More Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States edited by Nurjehan Aziz

Susan Bassam Muaddi 131 The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif

Sandra Yannone 132 The Ladies from St. Petersburg by Nina Berberova

              132 The Book of Happiness by Nina Berberova

Theresa Brown 134 Toddler Hunting & Other Stories by Kono Taeko

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

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