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
