Cracking the Earth

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A 25th Anniversary Anthology from CALYX

Edited by Beverly McFarland, et al.

Our silver anniversary edition

The editors celebrate CALYX Journal’s silver anniversary with work that blazes a brilliant path across the literary world, work by well-known and up-and-coming CALYX discoveries. Cracking the Earth“grounds us in the things that matter,” Kathleen Alcalá writes in the introduction, and reminds us of “the reason for literature—to make us understand that we can crack the earth and change the world.”

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Beverly McFarland was the Senior Editor at CALYX. The CALYX Editorial Collective has received many awards, including the Stewart H. Holbrook Award from Oregon Literary Arts.

POETRY
Frances Payne Adler The Voices Are Coming Up
A Call to Arms and Breast Cancer
Elizabeth McLagan And the Eyes of the Blind Shall Be Opened
Betsy Johnson-Miller The Liturgy of the Table
Janine H. Oshiro Altar Living
Jane Bailey You Know Her
Ceasefire
Alice Derry Anne
Jasmine Donahaye Reprieve
Cortney Davis Nunca Tu Alma
It Is August 24th
Ellen Bass Apology to Anne
Deborah Byrne Farthest Thoughts
Marina Tsvetaeva Insomnia
Hazel Hall Made of Crêpe de Chine
A Baby’s Dress
Maker of Songs
Ilze Klavina Mueller Closeted Lesbian Infiltrates Latvian Knitters’ Group
Belinda Kremer My Super Bowl
Anita Sullivan Paradise
Mother and Son Negotiate
Lois Rosen Provider
Judith Werner Ethel Rosenberg and Me
Diane Lillian Averill Shoplifter Hands
ART
Katherine Ace Tea Party with Open Fruit
Iggi Green Birdie
Gail Tremblay In Search for the Ultimate Roach Joke
Shelly Corbett Occupying Himself with Her
Sheri Rice Getaway
Jennifer Stabler Holland Queen of Hearts
Chi Meredith Jade Vase
Manya Shapiro Little Black Dress
Betty LaDuke Eritrea: War Harvest
Monique Passicot The Red Ribbon Mask
Angelita Surmon Waiting
Annette Gurdjian The Centaur
Jane Orleman Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil
Joanna Thomas Palmistry
Claudia Cave Blown in the Wind
Kristina Kennedy Daniels Painted Trillium
PROSE
Diana Ma Ghost Story
Elaine Winer Rainbows and Roses
Tamara Musafia Teeth
M. Evelina Galang Learning to Fight: On the Death of Lola Lucia Alvarez
Monique de Varennes Cabeza
Susan Vreeland Neptune’s Lung
BOOK REVIEWS
Alice Ann Eberman The Collected Poems of Hazel Hall Edited by John Witte
Susan Stinson Reach by Janet E. Aalfs
Sandra Cookson Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry by Alice Fulton
Marie Krohn I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory by Patricia Hampl
Marianna Wright Girl in the Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
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