Artemis 2020 Artemis design and layout is based on Sacred Geometry proportions of Phi, 1.618. This number is considered to be the fundamental building block of nature, recurring throughout art, architecture, botany, astronomy, biology and music. Named by the Greeks as the Golden Mean, this number was also referred to as the Divine Proportion. The primary font used in Artemis is from the Berkeley family, modernized version of a classic Goudy old-style font, originally designed for the University of California Press at Berkeley in the late 1930s. Rotis san Serif is also used as an accent font. Featured Cover Artist: Dorothy Gillespie Featured Image Cover: Festival: Sierra Sunset, 1988 Back Cover: New River: Celebration, 1997 Featured Writer: Natasha Trethewey Featured Poem: Reach Editor-in-chief: Jeri Rogers Literary Editor: Maurice Ferguson Art Editor: Page Turner Associate Editor: Donnie Secreast HINGE SCORE HINGE Design Editor: Zephren Turner Social Media Editor: Crystal Founds Board Legal Advisor: Jonathan Rogers Publishing Advisor: Warren Lapine Community Liason Editor: Julia Fallon Blue Star Implosion Gwen Cates Artemis Journal 2020, Volume XXVII 978-1-5154-4492-3 (Soft Cover) 978-1-5154-4493-0 (Hard Cover) Copyright 2020 by Artemis Journal All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Printed in United States of America by Bison Printers Artemis/Artists & Writers, Inc. P.O. Box 505, Floyd, Va. 24091 www.artemisjounal.org I 100 years ago, women gained the right to vote in the United States by the passage of the 19th amendment. Foreword “Season Of Women” This year’s journal showcases poems and art that celebrate this moment in our history, expanding this fundamental freedom to women. Consequently, we call our theme “Season of Women.” Banding together with those who fought for fairer representation and greater opportunity, Artemis Journal demonstrates our Artemis Journal, now 43 years old, celebrates the voices and visions of artists and writers from the commitment to these ideals by providing a publishing platform for women to be heard and recognized. Appalachian region of the Blue Ridge Mountains and beyond. Our journal is titled after the Greek moon goddess, Artemis, who presided over the hunt, protected the natural world and illuminated the darkness. We should remember to thank the women throughout our history who have fought tirelessly to give us a Our mission is to provide an honored space for artists and writers to publish their contributions for cultural voice. Thanks to Susan B. Anthony for pushing the right to vote, Maud Wood Park for prenatal care and enrichment. identity outside if your husband’s, Elizabeth Stanton for the right to work, Margaret Sanger for the right to legal birth control, Eleanor Roosevelt and Molly Dewson for the right to work in politics and make policy, Carol Downer for reproductive health care, Malala Yousafzai for pushing the rights of young women internationally, Rosa Parks for not backing down on the bus, Ruth Bader Ginsburg for advocating for the rights of women on the Supreme Court, Gloria Steinem for her lifetime commitment to equal rights and our mothers and grandmothers who stood before us with few of the rights, we now have as women. Since the 19th amendment and our cover artist, Dorothy Gillespie’s birthday coincide, we celebrate both simultaneously. Dorothy Gillespie, 1920-2012, supported our fledgling idea of starting a feminist literary and art journal by donating her beautiful pastel for our very first cover in 1977. Her work of art was later painted to become Roanoke’s first downtown mural. As a native of Roanoke, Ms. Gillespie’s international career spanned seven decades and her works of art have graced many institutions, museums, colleges, universities and public places. We are honored again to have her grace our current cover. This year we are pleased to present United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, as our featured writer. In addition to encouraging novice unpublished artists and writers, Artemis has published many notable writers including Nikki Giovanni, Virginia Poet Laureates, Carlton Drewry, George Garrett, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda and Ron Smith. Many exceptional artists are also featured in our journal alongside the writers, including Betty Branch, Ray Kass, Robert Sulkien, Sam Krisch, Starroot, Angie Zed and many more too numerous to mention. Just open the pages of our journal to explore these wonderful treasures. As a small press, Artemis Journal relies on the generosity of our readers to help support this unique contribution to art and literature. As a charitable organization, Artemis is grateful for the continued support of our writers and artists, the Roanoke Arts Commission and the Taubman Museum of Art. Jeri Rogers, Editor Maurice Ferguson, Literary Editor Mother and Daughter Page & Zephren Turner, Art-Design Editors Teri Hoover II III 15 Night 32 This is what I am trying to tell you... 50 Which Came First? Table of Contents Robbi Nester Ashley Wilson Fellers Phyllis Meshulam I Artemis 2020 16 Overlooking the City, I Reminisce 32 Possibility 3 50 Expulsion I Blue Star Implosion Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda Susan Saandholland Nancy Andruk Olson Gwen Cates 16 seafluer 33 FORCED STERILIZATION 51 For the Water Protectors II Foreword “Season Of Women” Maja Bosen Eileen Malone Anne Lusby-Denham II Mother and Daughter 17 Villanelle for a Strained Work Enviroment 34 Knot 51 Bough of the Juniper Teri Hoover Josette Torres Piper Durrell Cody Chamberlain VIII Vote 17 Hand Wrench 35 No More Destruction 52 Elizabeth Wishes Trish Korte Zephren H Turner Sherrye Lantz Linda Weatherly Shroyer 1 VOTE 18 Sew, Knit, Stitch Together 36 Eve (mother) 53 TUDORS: A TRIPTYCH OF QUEENS Nikki Giovanni James Broschart Samuel Evensen Richard Raymond, III 2 snap-away general 19 Life Quilt 37 Eve’s Rebellion 54 WISE PENELOPE Aggie Zed Jane Winders Frank Chris Rice Cooper Claire Scott 3 Reach 20 Everything 38 On the Day the Great Poet Dies 55 Always Planning Natasha Trethewey Samantha Prillaman Sean Prentiss Melissa T. Hall 4 To the Goddess After a Very Long Pause 20 Lying on Arid Land 39 The Missing Words 56 Earth Mother Marjorie Power Paola Bidinelli Alessio Zanelli Steve Owens 4 Birds of a Feather 21 Refugee 39 Alpha Trough 57 Memorial Sandi Badash Katherine De Lorraine Frank McEntire Delia Garigan 5 To My Loyal and Beautiful Body 22 On Turning Fifty-five at the heaterT 40 The Infinity of A Moment’s Generosity 58 Rapunzel Frances Curtis Barnhart Kate Rose Bast Suzanne V Paddock Polly Hollar Pauley 5 Reclaiming my Body 23 Menopause Chill Pills 41 An Aging Druid Princess 59 Deep Rock Maggie Perrin-Key Katrina Majkut Molly O’Dell Heather N. Leisch 6 Guardian 24 Continuation 42 Twin 59 Streams That Find Their Way to the Ocean Anne Gregerson Jane Blanchard Mary Hayne North Colleen Redman 7 The Goddesses of Doubt 24 Why be blue when I see green? 42 Me Too 60 Color Homage to Robert Smithson Melanie Almeder Gerri Young Bonny Branch Carmen Einfinger 8 Last Call 25 And how would it be to fly 42 Cinematic 60 Morning Find Judy Light Ayyildiz Diane Scribner Clevenger Michael Lyle Richard L. Rose 9 Maenads 25 Flight of Fancy 43 Star City Angel 61 Torso Mary Boxley Bullington Sally Mook Tricia Scott Betty Branch 10 Her Dad’s Favorite 26 Icarus Advises His Daughter 44 Venn Diagram 61 Naiad’s Den Jennifer Carpenter Babo Kamel Sandra de Helen Darcy Smith 11 Dear Brother 27 Principia 44 Bike 62 Fox Girl Dee Bowlin Megan Knobloch Geilman Leslie E Porter Dreama J. Kattenbraker 12 The Grieving Mother Sees a Pregnant Woman 28 Played by Ear 45 Veils 62 Hilda Was Too Tall for a Washable Frock at the Gravesite Patsy Asuncion Judith Skillman Ron Smith Madeleine Gallo 28 Hollow 45 Mother Child De Spiritu 63 E.P. in the Garden 12 I Said No Stacie Ann Smith Edrie Bays Ron Smith Eva M. Schlesinger 29 Pilate’s Wife 46 Chasing Destiny 64 Alice Paul Reflects 13 When a Grown-Ass Woman Speaks Jane Mary Curran Kirsten Stingle Sylvia Ramos Cruz Angela V. Clevinger 30 Darci Lynne in the Making 47 The Night I Killed the Bear 64 VOTE 14 The Acorn and the Leaf Rikki Santer Claire Crabtree Gwendolyn Andersen Marjie Gowdy 31 THE GODDESS DESCENDS 48 Us 65 Friend to My Sprit 15 Lady Day Louis Gallo Cara Good Bridgette Guerzon Mills The Patrick Harris 31 Die Mutter - The Mother 49 God Shed His Grace on Thee IV Janis Wunderlich Cara Good V 65 tomber 80 Wings Above the Flames 96 Recovery/Life as a Plant 113 SUDANESE SURVIVALIST Jennifer Raleigh Schwartz Robi Sallee Dorian Clowers Lisa Rhodes-Ryabchich 66 Ghazal for the Restless Because 81 THE LIGHT BRINGER 96 Pollen Dusting 114 Persephone Mary Crockett Hill Bob Walker Justine Jackson Stone Susan E. Gunter 66 Garden Party 81 ELEGY FOR NADIA ANJUMAN 97 Freedom to Be 115 Seed of Life (Pomegranate) Elise Schweitzer Diana Woodcock Vicki Kitts Natalie Strum 67 Persistence 82 Tender 98 My Sad Eyed Sister 116 Ghost Story Diane Cruze Meg Pierce Bill Caldwell Anna L Tolou Orr 68 Charlotte Mew, A Nemophilist 83 Searching the Yellows 99 Juvenile Vernal Equinox 117 Quiet Susie Gharib Frederick Wilbur Zane Anderson Ashley Wilson Fellers 69 Landscape Inventions: Beach, Washington 84 One calendar year of wearing all white. 99 Two Wings and Dirty Feet 118 A Woman’s Worth State Lacey Leonard Al Hagy Sr. Cynthia Shutts Robert Sulkin 85 Fertility 100 NOTATION III 119 Compact Girl 70 Feel the Rhythm Laura Anderson Ray Kass