Yellow Silk: Journal of Erotic Arts was a magazine founded by writer and editor Lily Pond and published quarterly from 1981 to 1996.

Anthologies

Works published in this magazine were anthologized in:

• Yellow Silk: Erotic Arts and Letters, Three Rivers Press
  Three Rivers Press
  Three Rivers Press is the trade paperback imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House. It publishes original paperback titles as well as paperback reprints of books issued initially in hardcover by the other Crown imprints.- History :...
  
  , 1992, ISBN 051758736X, edited by Lily Pond and Richard Russo (AKA Richard A. Russo, not the novelist
  Richard Russo
  Richard Russo is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher.-Early life and education:Russo was born in Johnstown, New York, and raised in nearby Gloversville...
  
   of the same name)
• The Book of Eros: Arts and Letters from Yellow Silk, Three Rivers Press, 1996, ISBN 051788612X
• Seven Hundred Kisses: A Yellow Silk Book of Erotic Writing, HarperOne
  HarperCollins
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  , 1997, ISBN 0062514849
• Yellow Silk II: International Erotic Stories and Poems , Grand Central Publishing
  Hachette Book Group USA
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   ISBN 978-0446675314

Editor Lily Pond also published Pillow: Exploring the Heart of Eros (A Yellow Silk Book), Celestial Arts, 1998, ISBN 0890878587

Contributors

Authors who have appeared in Yellow Silk include:
Kim Addonizio

Kim Addonizio

Kim Addonizio is an award-winning American poet and novelist.-Life:Addonizio is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie....

, Angela Ball, Carolyn Banks

Carolyn Banks

Carolyn Banks is an American novelist, short-story writer, editor, and screen writer residing in Bastrop, Texas.Her first national publication was her short story "Idyll," which appeared in Voyages , a literary magazine, in 1968, alongside the work of Anaïs Nin, Josephine Miles and Theodore Weiss...

, Robert Bly

Robert Bly

Robert Bly is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement.-Life:Bly was born in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, to Jacob and Alice Bly, who were of Norwegian ancestry. Following graduation from high school in 1944, he enlisted in the United States Navy, serving...

, Angela Carter

Angela Carter

Angela Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works...

, Marilyn Chin

Marilyn Chin

Marilyn Chin is an American poet who grew up in Portland, Oregon, after her family immigrated from Hong Kong. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Her awards include two National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Stegner Fellowship, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award,...

, Wanda Coleman

Wanda Coleman

Wanda Coleman is an American poet. She is known as "the L.A. Blueswoman," and "the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles."-Biography:...

, Franz Douskey

Franz Douskey

Franz Douskey is an American writer. Between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, his work was published in nearly two hundred publications.Douskey has lived in Memphis, New Orleans, Tucson, and the West Indies. William M...

, Margaret Drabble, Anita Endrezze

Anita Endrezze

Anita Endrezze is a poet, writer, and artist. She is half-Yaqui Indian and half European . Endrezze was born in Long Beach, California in 1952. She graduated with an MA from Eastern Washington University. She lives in Everett, Washington, is married with two children and works as a storyteller,...

, Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich

Karen Louise Erdrich, known as Louise Erdrich, is an author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American heritage. She is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance...

, Susan Griffin

Susan Griffin

Susan Griffin is an eco-feminist author. She describes her work as "draw[ing] connections between the destruction of nature, the diminishment of women and racism, and trac[ing] the causes of war to denial in both private and public life." She received a MacArthur grant for Peace and International...

, Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York....

, Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield is an American poet.-Biography:Jane Hirshfield was born in New York City and received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University in the school's first graduating class to include women. She later studied at the San Francisco Zen Center, including three years of monastic...

, Ha Jin

Ha Jin

Jīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin . Ha comes from his favorite city, Harbin.-Early life:...

, Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell is an American poet. He was Poet Laureate of Vermont from 1989 to 1993. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St...

, William Kotzwinkle

William Kotzwinkle

William Kotzwinkle is an American novelist, children's writer, and screenwriter. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Doctor Rat in 1977, and has also won the National Magazine Award for fiction. Kotzwinkle wrote the novelization of the...

, Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux is an American poet.-Biography:Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988. Laux taught at the University of Oregon...

, Mary Mackey

Mary Mackey

-Biography:Mackey was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her father was a physician. Her mother worked as a chemist in the Mead Johnson laboratories during World War II...

, Carole Maso

Carole Maso

Carole Maso is a contemporary American novelist and essayist, known for her experimental, poetic and fragmentary narratives often called postmodern. She received a B.A. in English from Vassar College in 1977. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, an NEA fellowship, and...

, W.S. Merwin, Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee is an award-winning Indian-born American writer. She is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.-Background:...

, Dennis Nurkse

Dennis Nurkse

-Life:Nurkse is the son of the eminent economist Ragnar Nurkse. He has taught workshops at Rikers Island, and his poems about prison life appeared in The American Poetry Review, Evergreen Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, and other magazines...

, Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds

-Life:Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was raised as a “hellfire Calvinist”, as she describes it. She says she was by nature "a pagan and a pantheist" and notes "I was in a church where there was both great literary art and bad literary art, the great art being psalms and the bad...

, Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's [America's] best-selling poet".-Early life:...

, Jennifer Jean O'Neill, Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.-Early life and writings:...

, Marge Piercy

Marge Piercy

Marge Piercy is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Gone to Soldiers, a sweeping historical novel set during World War II.-Biography:...

, Howard W. Robertson

Howard W. Robertson

Howard W. Robertson is an American poet.- Life :Robertson was born in Eugene, Oregon. He married Margaret Collins on August 10, 1991, and has two daughters and two sons. He received a B.A. in Russian and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon as well as an M.S.L.S...

, Andrew Schelling

Andrew Schelling

Andrew Schelling Andrew Schelling Andrew Schelling (born January 14, 1953 Washington D.C. is an American poet and translator.-Life:He grew up in New England. He moved west to Northern California in 1973. There he explored wilderness regions of the Coast Range and Sierra Nevadas. He studied at...

, Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange born October 18, 1948, is an American playwright, and poet. As a self proclaimed black feminist, much of the content of her work addresses issues relating to race and feminism....

, Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:...

, Nicole Stansbury

Nicole Stansbury

Nicole Stansbury is an American novelist, short story and essay writer. Her novel Places to Look for a Mother and her collection of short stories The Husband's Dilemma were published by Carroll & Graf, and her shorter works have appeared in The Threpenny Review, PRISM international, and Yellow...

, Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams , is an American author, conservationist and activist.Williams’ writing is rooted in the American West and has been significantly influenced by the arid landscape of her native Utah in which she was raised...

, and Robert Wrigley

Robert Wrigley

Robert Wrigley is an American poet and educator.His most recent book is Beautiful Country'. Other collections include Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems Lives of the Animals ; Reign of Snakes ; In the Bank of Beautiful Sins ; What My Father Believed ; Moon in a...

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Artists and photographers who provided covers and interior illustrations, typically a single artist per issue, include:
Sigmund Abeles, Tee Corinne

Tee Corinne

Tee Corine was a lesbian visual artist notable for the portrayal of sexuality in her artwork.-Early life and education:Corinne was born and grew up in Florida. Her mother introduced her to principles and techniques for making visual art...

, Judy Dater

Judy Dater

Judy Dater is an American photographer and feminist. She is perhaps best known for her 1974 photograph, Imogen and Twinka, featuring an elderly Imogen Cunningham, one of America's first women photographers, encountering a nymph in the woods of Yosemite. The nymph is the model Twinka Thiebaud.Dater...

, Betty LaDuke, Mayumi Oda, Stephen John Phillips, and Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek is a Czech art photographer.- Life :Saudek's father was a Jew and the family was therefore persecuted by Germans. Many of his family members died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. Jan and his brother Karel were held in a children's concentration camp located...

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