Enjoy this audio recording of “This is the Place Where Sound Was Born” by Bonny Barry Sanders from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Bonny Barry Sanders’ poems have been published in Blueline, Chattahoochee Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Connecticut Review, Carolina Quarterly, Ibbetson Street, Florida Review, The Louisiana Review, Puckerbrush Review, and The
Enjoy this audio recording of “This is a Question Mark Ready to Fly” by Sarah Jane Holsteen from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sarah Jane Holsteen holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her work has previously been published in South Loop Review and Drunken Boat.
Enjoy this audio recording of “Recalculating” by Jennifer Burd from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Jennifer Burd has had poetry published in numerous print and online journals. She is author of two full-length books of poetry, Days’ Late Blue (2017; Cherry Grove Collections) and Body and Echo (2010; PlainView Press), a chapbook with CD of
Enjoy this audio recording of “Persephone Talks to Her Girlfriends on Her Cell Phone” by Judith Arcana from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Born and raised in the Great Lakes region, living now in the Pacific Northwest, Judith Arcana is a writer of poems, stories, essays and books. Praised by
Enjoy this audio recording of “Melon Mouth” by Taijhet Nyobi from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Taijhet Nyobi is an artist of African descent based in Oakland, CA. Her poetry has been published by Saul Williams, online magazines, and several literary journals. She is the 2014 grant recipient of the
Enjoy this audio recording of “Interdit” by Gillian Cummings from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Gillian Cummings is the author of The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, selected by John Yau as the winner of the 2018 Colorado Prize for Poetry (The Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University, 2018)
Enjoy this audio recording of “Amanat” by Lisa Dordal from issue 28.3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Lisa Dordal is the author of Mosaic of the Dark (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and teaches in the English Department at Vanderbilt University. A Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of an Academy of American Poets
Enjoy this audio recording of “A Name for the Year’s Longest Night” by Ruth Awad from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Ruth Awad is an award-winning Lebanese-American poet whose debut poetry collection Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press 2017) won the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and
Enjoy this audio recording of “Whitetail” by Abby Minor from Vol. 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Abby Minor lives in the ridges and valleys of central Pennsylvania, where she works on poems, essays, gardens, paintings, quilts, and projects for reproductive justice. She’s received fellowships, residencies, and awards from Bitch Media, Split
Enjoy this audio recording of “Specimens Mounts 4 and 28” by Amy Wright from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Amy Wright is Nonfiction Editor of Zone 3 journal, Coordinator of Creative Writing at Austin Peay State University, and author of Everything in the Universe, Cracker Sonnets, and five chapbooks including
Enjoy these audio recordings of “Blessing” and “How Joy is Never Erased” by Edwina Trentham from issue 29:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Edwina Trentham is a Professor of English at Asnuntuck Community College, where she is also the Editor of Freshwater, a national poetry journal, which celebrated its Tenth Anniversary in
Enjoy these audio recordings of “Night Sheep” and “The Corn-Pecked Ground” by Carol Tiebout from issue 29:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Carol Tiebout is a poet and an educator who lives in Edmonds, WA. She has been an end-of-life bodyworker with hospice for ten years. Recently she has also developed collaborative
Enjoy this audio recording of “Harvest” by Mary Salisbury from issue 29:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Mary Salisbury, an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship recipient and finalist for the Orlando Poetry Prize, graduated with an MFA in Writing from Pacific University. Finishing Line Press published Salisbury’s chapbook, Come What May, in 2014.
Enjoy this audio recording of “Free App” by Sheila Sondik from issue 29:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sheila Sondik, poet and printmaker, lives in Bellingham, Washington. Her poetry has appeared in Calyx, Raven Chronicles, The Floating Bridge Review, Frogpond, and many other journals and anthologies. Egress Studio Press published her chapbook,
Enjoy this audio recording of “Badmash Company” by Tania Malik from issue 29:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Tania Malik was born in New Delhi, and raised in India, Africa, and the Middle East. She was educated in boarding schools in the foothills of the Himalayas, and graduated from the University of
Enjoy this audio recording of “Sister Psalm” by Katherine Lo from issue 30:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Katherine Lo is a writer and high school English teacher who lives in Southern California. Her work has previously been featured in Poet Lore, Rattle (Poets Respond), and Qu.
Enjoy this audio recording of “Mayakovsky Ghost” by Svetlana Beggs from issue 30:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Svetlana Beggs is a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, and holds an M.A. in Philosophy. Her poems will appear in forthcoming issues of Columbia Poetry Review and Pleiades, and her flash story was in a recent issue
Enjoy this audio recording of “Funeral” by Dorsey Craft from issue 30:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Dorsey Craft holds an MFA from McNeese State University, where she was awarded the Joy Scantlebury Prize for poetry. In addition toNinth Letter Web Edition, Dorsey’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, the
Enjoy this audio recording of “A Wheel of Brie” by Meredith Davies Hadaway from issue 30:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. An award-winning poet and teacher of ecopoetry, Meredith Davies Hadaway is the author of three collections of poetry, At The Narrows, (2015) The River is a Reason (2011) and Fishing Secrets of the Dead (2005), all issued
Enjoy this audio recording of “alabo” by Sylvia Mercedes Beato from issue 30:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sylvia Beato-Davis is a writer and an educator. Her work revolves around the phenomenology of the body, the politics of linguistics, and post-colonial identity. Her current project attempts to dismantle narratives built from systems of
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Space Between Missing and Dead” by Susana H. Case from issue 30:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here: https://www.calyxpress.org/product-category/journals/ Susana H. Case is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, Erasure, Syria, new in 2018 from Recto y Verson Editions and Drugstore Blue, 2017 from Five Oaks Press,
Enjoy this audio recording of “Phone Sex Lullaby” by Charlotte Covey from issue 30:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Charlotte grew up in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. While still an undergrad, she co-founded Milk Journal. In Spring 2016, she received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and English with a Concentration in Creative
“The Vanishing” by Maris Handler was the recipient of the 2017 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize and published in issue 30:2 of CALYX Journal, available here. Marisa Handler is a writer, singer-songwriter, teacher, and coach. She is the author of the memoir Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist, which won a Nautilus Gold Award for
Enjoy this audio recording of “Red Tulips” by Donna Emerson from issue 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Donna’s recent or forthcoming poetry publications include CALYX, the Paterson Literary Review, Spillway, the New Ohio Review, Sanskrit, descant, Quiddity, among many others. Her poetry paired with her photography publications include Lumina, the Healing Muse, Stone Canoe, and Passager. Her recent awards
Enjoy this audio recording of “Zombies on Skateboards” by Judith Arcana from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Born and raised in the Great Lakes region, living now in the Pacific Northwest, Judith Arcana is a writer of poems, stories, essays and books. Praised by writers and readers, reviewers and community
