Letter from Barbara Kingsolver to CALYX

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Margarita Donnelly
Calyx
P.O. Box B
Corvallis, OR 97339

Dear Ms. Donnelly:

I was delighted to learn that two of my poems will be appearing in your retrospective anthology; I look forward to seeing Florilegia. I would prefer to have my contributor's copy in book form.

I live in Tucscon, Arizona, where I work as a freelance writer. My poetry and fiction have recently appeared in Heresies, Sojourner, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. I've just finished my first novel, The Bean Trees, and am now awaiting my first child, which is due to arrive before your next issue.

The two poems you selected — "Your Mother's Eyes" and "Remember the Moon Survives" — have not been published elsewhere since their appearance in your magazine last year.

I'm honored to have been a part of Calyx's first ten years. Best wished for your next decade.

Sincerely,

"BARBARA KINGSOLVER