CONTENTS
Editor’s Note: to Readers and Contributors by Diane Gilliam
Orlando is the Story of a Writer by Maxine Hong Kingston
“Goddess on a Shelf” image by Jennifer Lothrigel
Call Me Girl
“Sisters” image by Marianne Murdock
Unfettered by Melva Sue Priddy
The Grasshopper, the Hawk, and the Squash Vine by Felice Wyndham
House Dolls by Salud Mora Carriedo
Space Invaders by Roxanna Bennett
Someone Blundered by Leonore Hildebrandt
Solitary Prism by Kathleen Hellen
Three-Legged Foal by Yania Padilla Sierra
The Gift of Veneer by Melva Sue Priddy
Sunday Morning by Jeanne Bryner
My Father on His Deathbed by Cynthia Robinson Young
Sweater Girl by Darlene Taylor
Angels and Saints by Chloe DeFelippis
Because We Never by Emily Geminder
In a Shark’s Mouth by Nicole Lacy
The Difference Between a Child and Offspring by Melva Sue Priddy
Ordinary Sophie by Karen Heuler
Driving Home by Melissa Grossman
Downed Limb by Karen Skolfield
Ethel Finds Money by Karen Heuler
Tanka for Precious and Angie and Vivian, in Particular by M. Nzadi Keita
On Shawano Lake by Lora Keller
My Father’s Coat by Christy O’Callaghan-Leue
The Third Thing by Kathleen Kelly
Bonfire Girls by Roxanna Bennett
Trash Day by Therese Halscheid
Chicharon by Salud Mora Carriedo
Sister’s Night Walk by Abbey Chew
Entwined Moon by Lauren Triola
This World I Want You to Save
“Golden One” image by Lyndia Radice
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Black Cat in a Field by Beverly Lafontaine
The Laughing Place by Tara L. Masih
Some Rough in the Hand, Some Smooth by Marge Piercy
Airy Humus by Lynn Tudor Deming
Look for Raven Pairs Flying in a Pre-Mating Ritual by Karen Skolfield
The Cows by Elizabeth Jacobson
Jaguar Foretells His Own Extinction by Suzette Bishop
Break Beauty by Lisbeth Davidow
“Look at that, you son of a bitch” by Peg Duthie
At the Interface by Renée E. D’Aoust
Keep Calling My Name: Frogs, Circles and Climate
Change by Jocelyn Edelstein
There’s No Place Like Home by Rebecca Hart Olander
Vanishing Point by Melissa Grossman
At Butcher’s Slough by Simona Carini
Cathartidae by Lynn Tudor Deming
Coastline Forecast: February by Claudia McGhee
The Voyage Out: A Poem by Marian O’Brien Paul
Swash Zone by Nancy Carol Moody
Trying to Return by Sandy Gillespie
River Broken Story by Molly Scott
On a Highway of the Pacific Coast by Cheryl Buchanan
Bird Women of Wells-next-the-Sea by Ingrid Jendrzejewski
Against the Tide by Janet Thomas
Kantan Tasi, Song of the Sea by Mary Therese Perez Hattori
About the Ocean by Ginny Bitting
The Journey by Florence Gharibian
Fields of Hveen by Barbara Sabol
The Sun Does Not Set by Mai-Lon Gittelsohn
Off the Moon Path by Jane Schulman
The Way I See It by Diane Lefer
Inside the Bowl (Asaayi Lake) by Leeanna Torres
On the Bluff, in the Wind by Simona Carini
And When Raven Shortcuts by Carrie Nassif
When You Reach the Red by Gabriela Frank
My Bones Are In You
“Generativity” image by Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus
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No Love Letters by Helen Casey
The Button Box by Rebecca Olander
The Saint of Memory: The Peas by Linda Ravenswood
Post-Post-Traumatic Stress by Samantha Lamph
Great-Grandmother Annetta by Lisa Lutwyche
Las Mujeres by Gerda Govine Ituarte
Remember This by Darlene Taylor
A Crown of Crows by Melissa Coss Aquino
At Lock and Dam No. 10 by Kathleen Kelly
At Least Prostitutes Bring Home Money by Sokunthary Svay
The Tulip-Flame by Chloe Honum
Autumn Melancholy with Birds by Margaret Chula
Advice from Mother on Your One Less Day by Les Bernstein
Mother’s Wishbones, No Doubt by Ruth Sabath Rosenthal
At the Abortion Clinic by Katharyn Howd Machan
Birthday by Shelley Blanton-Stroud
Birth Marker by Gerda Govine Ituarte
Always, Every, Only by Susan Sarver
Margie’s Monologue by Thelma Virata de Castro
At Precisely the Corner by Faith Holsaert
The Disappointed Women by Celeste Helene Schantz
Boy Child by Gerda Govine Ituarte
Outside Modern Myths: Waiting in the Car While the Teens
Battle on Game Night by Rebecca Olander
The Bones of His Face by Jan Lewbin
Spear Maiden to Persephone by Geri Lipschultz
There’s a Tornado in My Mind by Ann L. Carter
Orbit without Gravity by Page Lambert
On the Eve of a Daughter’s Fortieth Birthday by Laurie Klein
A New Theology by Sheila Bender
Identity by Gerda Govine Ituarte
Breathing Room by Holly Norton
Poem for My Mother by Mary Elise Bailey
The Daughter Walk by Sheila Bender
My Body Is Not Your Politics
“Embodiment (detail)” image by Lisa Naas
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A Number of Blue Women by Anita M. Barnard
Before We Met by Zehra Imam
My Body Is Not Your Politics by Hannah Bonner
How To Love Your Body by Kelly Cressio-Moeller
The Photographer’s Model by Jeannette Miller
Daughter, They’ll Use Even Your Own Gaze to Wound You by Beth Ann Fennelly
There Is More Light Every Day (A Song for Uneven Fingernails) by Anna Hundert
My Brother by Katharyn Howd Machan
What We Talk About When We Talk About Father Rucker by Cheryl Buchanan
Won’t You Be My Valentine by Elizabeth Hoover
What Sets Her Apart, Asks Jayne After Reading Another
Guinevere Poem For Me In Massachusetts by Tania Pryputniecz
What Sets Her Apart, Part II by Tania Pryputniecz
What We Call Love Is Seldom What We Fall Into by Sandy Gillespie
Body Parts by Margaret Stetler
The Untenable by Cynthia Reeser
Comfort Woman by Tanya Ko-Hong
What Is the Medicine for Rape by Trina Porte
Survivor’s Guide to Sex by Elizabeth Hoover
The Distance Between by Maureen McQuerry
How Big the Sky by Anna Hundert
Bet You Thought You Saw the Last of Me by Rachel Durs
Sooner or Later the Body Betrays Us by Beverly Lafontaine
Inside Frida Kahlo’s Body by Mercedes Lawry
Lupus Outwits Me, Declares Martial Law by Susan Eisenberg
Stef’s Request by Abigail Licad
When You’ve Been Sick for a Time by Susan Austin
Small Talk at Evanston General by Beth Ann Fennelly
After the Cut by Mai-Lon Gittelsohn
The Tattoo I Did Not Get by Felicia Mitchell
When They Ask About My Face by Nancy Carol Moody
Coming Back by Beverly Lafontaine
At the Yoga Shanti Class for Cancer Survivors by Cheryl Buchanan
The Pink Hairbrush by S.J. Eaves
My Skin Is Not Enough to Keep Me Warm by Beverly Lafontaine
If He, If She Would Only
“Divorce Journals” image by Martha Donovan
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Lovers in the Age of Airmail by Kelly Cressio-Moeller
The Geography of First Kisses by Karin Cecile Davidson
Recognition by Sandy Gillespie
Postcard from Sissinghurst by Denise DiMarzio
Moby Dick and the Beginning of the End by Ingrid Jendrzejewski
Persephone Tells All by Ruth Thompson
Self-Portrait as a Message From Rapunzel to the Princes
Trying to Rescue Her by Michalle Gould
Without Turning by Sandy Gillespie
There Is This Wildness by Molly Scott
Schrodinger’s Wife Sells the House by Jennifer Campbell
I Promise I’m Always Careful by Alethea Alden
When a Ghost Touches Your Body by Kristi Carter
Café Des Artistes by Sally Taylor Tawil
Anatomy of a Lighthouse by Rita Anderson
Riding Past the Museum of Natural History by Ruth Sabath Rosenthal
Unanticipated Effects of Altitude by Jennifer Steil
Body Memories, Keening, Scars by Erin Pushman
The Bronx: A Love Story by Melissa Coss Aquino
Breathing Fee by Tanya Ko Hong
The Cage Is Open by Margaret Chula
Dogs and Men in Bed by Marcia Meier
Blue Moon and Bright Mars by Sandy Coomer
Verdad Justicia Amor
“Queen Without a Face” image by Monteque Pope-Le Beau
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Aunt Jemima, Eleanor Bumpers, and Sandra Bland by Breena Clarke
The Summer Lolly by Breena Clarke
Quiet 1 With Eyes by M. Nzadi Keita
Imagine: A Love Song by Denise Miller
Making Waves in 1798 by Tammi Truax
Terrible Fortune Inside My Head, Grenadine by Lynne Thompson
And / Or / Against / For by Vero González
The Weight of White by Lorraine Mejia
The, a lyrical soliloquy by Chiori Miyagawa
You Are Migrant by Katherine DiBella Seluja
Raqqa, Syria to Crete by Susan Shaw Sailer
The Refugee by Julie Christine Johnson
Manifest Destiny by Kirin McCrory
Women’s Voices by Diana Woodcock
Mothers Who Carry Their Own Water by Gerda Govine Ituarte
Spoil of War by Leatha Kendrick
Telling Stories at Tea Time by Zehra Imam
Silence on a June Morning, 1944 by Tracy Davidson
The Last Diary Entries of Septimus Warren Smith by Katherine Orr
The Late Afternoon Light Crashed All Around – a novel excerpt by Karin Cecile Davidson
Backblast Area Clear by Karen Skolfield
How to Get Inside of a Ship That Won’t Let You In by Debbie Urbanski
Blood Moon by Elizabeth Jacobson
Ghazal for Emilie Parker by Carolyne Wright
Sexy Barbie Rapunzel by Deb Jannerson
The Frame of a Couch Is Not a Couch by Karen Skolfield
Like a Maelstrom with a Notch by Lois Marie Harrod
Smash Shop by Elizabeth Jacobson
Untitled [When have you ever heard a silent crowd?] by Monika Cooper
Where I Am Standing by Marsha Pincus
Mooring the Boat to the Dock by Sarah Black
Sculpture Under A Bridge by Debbie Hall
Leave the Barren Fields by Mary Morris
Sisterhood of the Barbed Wire Museum
“Acts of Bravery (Day 1 & 3)” image by Lois Bradley
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We Should Have by Carrie Nassif
Before the Show by Donna J. Gelagotis Lee
Delores (Part One) by Esther Cohen
Delores (Part Two) by Esther Cohen
Third Platoon Learns Cover & Concealment by Karen Skolfield
She Whispers Korean in My Ear by Tanya Ko Hong
Bracelets by G. Evelyn Lampart
Coming in Second by Ruth Sabath Rosenthal
Black Swans: A Poem for Voices by Katharyn Howd Machan
Some Secrets by Debbie Urbanski
Small Bodies by Alexandra Reisner
You Accompany Parents Through Winter by Alice Cone
Anne Frankenstein by Deborah Thompson
Woman Warriors: Babae/Babaylan by Aimee Suzara
The Woman Who Picked Me Up by Antonia Clark
Blue Goddesses by Laura Chaignon
Dada Does Dominoes by Glenda Reed
No Milk Over Tea by Zehra Imam
Woman Finds Her Face by Lois Marie Harrod
Persephone by Elizabeth Moller
Bipolar Girls on a Manic High Are My Addiction by Stephanie Heit
This Poem Will Refuse to Confess by Emily Regier
Ace of Pentacles by Roxanna Bennett
Stealin’ from the Dead by K. Bruce Florence
Untitled [the dark knows this] by Jennifer Patterson
Her American Life by Sokunthary Svay
The Siege of Ennis by Eileen O’Leary
Mrs. Ramsey by Rebecca Ruth Gould
She Shall Soon Find a Way by Julie Babcock
Wanting for Grace by Donna J. Gelagotis Lee
Final Crescent by Jane Schulman
Rapunzel Brings Her Women’s Studies Class to the Tower by Susan J. Erickson
A Voice Answering a Voice
“Knock” image by Dawn Banghart
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Living with Ghosts by Ellen McLaughlin
Quotations [and Responses] by Sandy Gillespie
Anna’s Hut at Komarovo by Trina Gaynon
Celebrate for Anais Nin by Nancy Shiffrin
What Woolf Dares Us to Write by Lauren Rusk
Her Poem, the Oak Tree by Tammi Truax
To the Lighthouse by Kim Hamilton
Virginia Woolf’s Hollyhocks by Deborah Doolittle
What Remains by Maggie Stetler
The Only Surviving Recording of Virginia Woolf’s Voice by Alison Townsend
To Virginia by George Ella Lyon
Reading Virginia Woolf in the Nineties by Kristie Letter
The Power to Contemplate: An Artist Responds to Virginia Woolf by Jennifer Carson
People as Evidence by Lauren Camp
Studio Visit: Later by Susanna Lang
Contact Dance in the Mission District by Dawn Banghart
Make a Body by Nancy Meyer and Janet Trenchard
Audre Lorde’s Unfinished Business: Working Through Religious Resistance to Cancer
Treatment by Pamela Yetunde
… and Stones by Gillian Barlow
Confessions of a Family Woman by Chivas Sandage
Mad Bad Sad Woman by Audrey Chin
WAVES: AROHO Retreat 2015 by Kristi Crutchfield Cox
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman by Patricia Farewell
A Meditation on the Wave by Sarah Hahn Campbell
Writing in Mothertime by Geri Lipschultz
Pollination by Barbara Ann Yoder
She’s Got Some Nerve by Janet Fitch
Retro Causation by Peggy Dobreer
Fragments of Anna Dickinson by Sarah Hahn Campbell
Terrible Girls by Jennifer Patterson
What It Takes by Karen McElmurray
Re-interpreting the Carved Revenge on Your Own Back by Shauna Osborn
Against My Own Current; Out in Plain Air by Lisa Lutwyche
Erotics of Making by Barbara Rockman
Counting and What’s Counted On by Robyn Hunt
Unmaking the Form by Marya Hornbacher
Now You Must Love This Too
“Dragging Virginia Woolf’s Body Out of the Ouse” image by Christy Sanford
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Bernard Brings a Drink by Jill Barth
Woman Waiting by Antonia Clark
Elegy to a Woman Writer, A Friend by Barbara Rockman
When the Moonlight by Berwyn Moore
Visit to Sete by Lynn Tudor Deming
Untitled jisei series by Shirley Plummer
Lady Lazarus by Jacqueline Doyle
Cycle for Nembetsu Udori, Festival to Summon
Ancestral Spirits by Judy Schavrien
Singing at the End by Molly Scott
Responsibility by Shirley Plummer
October Ends by Marsha Howland
Why You’re Afraid of the Road by Charlotte Muse
Beginning the Journey by Ruth Thompson
At the Whaling Museum, Point Lobos by Ruth Thompson
Incantation by Maureen Cummins
Bring Me the God of Mrs. Garcia by Susan Kelly-DeWitt
Where God Lives by Jeanne Bryner
Isles of the Wise by Sharon Suzuki-Martinez
The Ghigau Women by Sun Cooper
Abbey of Our Lady at Gethsemani by Sherry Chandler
Questions for the Angel Gabriel II by Anna Hundert
Mother of the Disappeared by Roz Spafford
A Village of Their Own by Niloufar Behrooz
Safe House by Jude Rittenhouse
Poem as a Field of Action by Berwyn Moore
The Arbor of Chance by Peggy Dobreer
Summer at Twenty-One by Eva M. Schlesinger
Next to You, Permanence by Elizabeth Jacobson
Horseshoe Crab Fandango by Nancy Krim
Stone Love by Joanna Clapps Herman
Psalm of Fire and Water by Cristina Baptista
Women’s Work by Jude Rittenhouse
Sleeping Under Snow by Susan Austin
The Last I Saw Mitsou by Karin Cecile Davidson
On the Need to Re-establish Sovereignty Over My Own Heart by Trina Porte
Rebuilding the ’63 Beetle by Nancy Krim
There Was a Door by Leatha Kendrick
The Potential of Yellow Roses by Susan J. Erickson
Woman of Myriad Seeds by Margaret Stetler
She Let Herself Go by George Ella Lyon
How will you begin? by Barbara Rockman
Writing the Dress by Barbara Rockman
Waves Returning: A Q&A With Maxine Hong Kingston
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