KALLIOPE, A JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S LITERATURE & ART

Kalliope's Twentieth-Year Celebration Begins

"Both sexes script the world we experience into existence," says writer Scott Keeney. And because KALLIOPE believes this to be true -- men and women do birth their image of reality into existence through their art -- we asked men to send us their poetry, prose, and visual art, to speak to us, to share with us their scripts.

In this issue, "Men Speak to Women," we continue a tradition begun with our 10th anniversary -- to dedicate an entire book to the voices of men. But we are not just interested in men's portrayal of women: rather, we are interested in seeing the provocative scripts which the male artists visualize.

We wondered how pieces by men reflect a position, a point of view, a way of looking or seeing:

How does a present-day Zen Buddhist monk, translating the 1,300 year-old Cold Mountain Poems of poet Han-Shan, reveal the struggle for integrity, pure intention, and compassion?

How does Jerry Uelsmann, the internationally acclaimed photographer script women? What do his images of goddesses merged into birds and stone say of the inner psyche?

How does Fred Muratori, author of "Lamia" describe the power of one chance motion of a beautiful woman in a long, lyrical prose poem?

Contrast the scripts portrayed in "Stopover in Utah," a chapter from David Poyer's novel in progress, and "Woman with a Black Eye," David Kirby's narrative poem.

David Lehman scripts a rather tender question.

Love (cynical, comic, charming, tragic, lamented) seems a major theme.

Some of these scripts are bizarre. Sometimes the scripts imitate lives that many women know. Always these pieces reveal how men script the world. We hope that you will find these images sometimes daunting, sometimes profound, sometimes confusing, and often downright accurate.

Read the issue and let us know what you think.

The KALLIOPE Collective

TABLE OF CONTENTS 20th Anniversary Issue: Men Speak to Women
~ Authur ~	Page	~ Title ~
Thomas Hager	2	"Formal Wear"
Kalliope Collective	3	Men Speak to Women
Han-Shan		Cold Mountain Poems (Translated by the Zen monk Zenrin R. Lewis)
	6	Poem 1
	7	Poem 2
	8	Poem 3
	9	Poem 4
Paul Andrew E. Smith	10	What Happens When We Dance, My Love?
George Perreault	11	Seeing Someone
Robert Lawson	12	The Place Whwere Apples Come From
Terry Tierney	13	Painting the House White
David Kirby	14	A Tall Woman with a Black Eye
Raymond McNiece	18	First Woman on the Moon
Fred Muratori	19	Lamia
Kevin Mims	22	A Literary Marriage
Paul Ladnier	27	"You Encounter Yourself"
	28	"Relating Was Not Your Way"
	29	"Always Transformation"
	30	"Losing the Self Was Not the Answer"
	31	"Yes, and I Knew You Twice"
	32	"Hidden Transformations"
Mimmo Iasiello	33	Night Song
Bruce Taylor	34	Next Door
Paul Grant	35	Guidance
Lawrence Russ	36	My Wife on Assignment: Chasing Storms Through Tonado Alley
Larry J. Davis	38	"Figure in Motion"
	39	"Seated Figure"
John McKernan	40	My Father's Heavy Artillery
	41	Woman Claims Offensive Poetry Sent to Her
Hugh Fox	42	Row, Row Your Boat
Kevin Miller	44	For Hanne at Fifty
Howard Denson	45	The Morning After, 1912
Greg Keith	46	Maude
Terry Watada	47	Eating Figs with Mrs. Long
Charles R. Feldstein	49	The Click of Your High Heels
Jim Daniels	50	Walking Through High Grass
Rick Campbell	52	Proving Lake Okeechobee
Thomas Hager	53	"Temptation of Thomas"
	54	"Soulless Encounter"
Paul A. Hanson	55	Order and Elegance
Jack E. Surrency	56	Forgive Me
David Poyer	57	A Stopover in utah, from Tomahawk
Jerry N. Uelsmann	62	"Untitled" 1996
	63	"Untitled" 1994
	64	"Untitled" 1997
	65	"Untitled" 1997
	66	"Untitled" 1996
C.R. Manley	67	Her First Month Blind
	68	Charlotte Sometimes
Val Krupnik	69	Autumn Is the Fall
Arnold Wood, Jr.	72	The Man Who Loved His Wife Enough
Jeff Olma	74	You As Jane Goodall, Me As Florida Primitive
David Lehman	75	February 21
Peter Meinke	76	Multiple Readings for National Poetry Month
Notes About Contributors	77