Enjoy this audio recording of “Family Fest” by Lynn Casteel Harper from issue 27:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Lynn Casteel Harper is a writer, minister, and chaplain. She is the author of On Vanishing (Catapult, April 2020), a nonfiction book that explores the dimensions of spirituality, social justice, and dementia. Lynn received a Barbara Deming Fund grant
Enjoy this audio recording of “Halfway In” by Judy Halebsky from issue 27:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Judy Halebsky is the author of the poetry collections Sky=Empty, Tree Line and the chapbook Space/Gap/Interval/Distance. Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, and the Vermont Studio Center have supported her work. Her passions include the Moth-style storytelling
Enjoy this audio recording of “Saturday” by Emily Tuszynska, the runner-up in the 2018 Lois Cranston Poetry Prize contest. Read the poem here. Emily Tuszynska’s poetry can be found in many journals, recently including Poetry Northwest, Salamander, The Southern Review, and Water-Stone Review. She lives in Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C.
Enjoy this audio recording of “What Hummingbirds Do” by Louise Cary Barden from issue 31:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. “What Hummingbirds Do” was the winner of the 2018 Lois Cranston Poetry Prize. The poem can be read here. Louise Cary Barden is the author of Tea Leaves, winner of the North
Enjoy this audio recording of “Aubade for Dreamland” by July Westhale from Vol. 31:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. July Westhale is the award-winning author of Via Negativa, Trailer Trash, The Cavalcade, and Occasionally Accurate Science. Her most recent poetry can be found in The National Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and Quarterly West. Her essays have been nominated for Best American Essays.
Enjoy this audio recording of “Burlesque” by Hannah Fries from Vol. 26:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Hannah Fries is a poet, writer, and editor. She is the author of the poetry collection Little Terrarium as well as the book Forest Bathing Retreat. She grew up in New Hampshire, went to Dartmouth College, and later
Enjoy this audio recording of “Women of a Certain Age” by Penelope La Montagne from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Penelope La Montagne was poet laureate emerita of Healdsburg, CA. (2004-2006). She lived on the banks of the Russian River and learned most of what she knew from watching the
Enjoy this audio recording of “Thoughts on Gay Marriage While Visiting My Lover’s Parents” by Judy Ireland from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Born and raised in the Midwest, Judy Ireland’s poetry benefits from the verdancy and barefaced authenticity of that working class culture which keeps her work grounded and
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Script” by Rosa del Duca from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Rosa del Duca is a writer, journalist, teacher and musician. A California transplant, she grew up in Montana, where she joined the National Guard at seventeen years of age. Four years later she
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Death of Chang and Eng 1811-1874” by Jennifer Fandel from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. In graduate school, Jennifer Fandel taught both at the university-level and the community, and she also began working in publishing at that time. Her work in the publishing field
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Air” by Sandra Kohler from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sandra Kohler’s third collection of poems, Improbable Music, (Word Press) appeared in May 2011. Earlier collections are The Country of Women (Calyx, 1995) and The Ceremonies of Longing, winner of the 2002 Associated Writing Programs Award Series in
Enjoy this audio recording of “My Brother Who Doesn’t Speak to Our Mother Comes to Visit” by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Professor of TESOL and World Language Education in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, Dr. Cahnmann-Taylor’s honors include a 2017 Richard Ruiz Scholar-Artist Residency
Enjoy this audio recording of “Layl-tul-Qadr (The Night of Power)” by Aisha Sharif from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Aisha is a Cave Canem fellow who resides in Shawnee, Kansas, a suburb that borders Kansas City, Missouri. Her debut poetry collection, To Keep From Undressing, is available here. As an
Enjoy this audio recording of “Impossible Questions” by Eugenia Leigh from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Eugenia Leigh is the author of Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows, winner of the 2015 Debut-litzer Prize in Poetry and finalist for both the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The
Enjoy this audio recording of “If This Looks Odd” by M.L. Brown from issue 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. M. L. Brown is the author of Drought, winner of the Claudia Emerson Poetry Chapbook Award, forthcoming from jmww in 2016. Her poems have been published in various journals and anthologies including Blackbird, PMS PoemMemoirStory, Gertrude,
Enjoy this audio recording of “How Does the Dog Spend Her Day” by Margaret Hasse from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Margaret Hasse’s five books of poems are Stars Above, Stars Below; In a Sheep’s Eye, Darling; Milk and Tides; Earth’s Appetite; and Between Us. The books have been prizewinners and bestsellers. Hasse is
Enjoy this audio recording of “Good Friday” by Sandra Kohler from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sandra Kohler’s third collection of poems, Improbable Music, (Word Press) appeared in May 2011. Earlier collections are The Country of Women (Calyx, 1995) and The Ceremonies of Longing, winner of the 2002 Associated Writing Programs Award Series in
Enjoy this audio recording of “after ten years, a net” by Tamiko Beyer from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Tamiko Beyer writes to shape change: thought-provoking essays, poetry that pushes boundaries, and hard-hitting articles that challenge the status quo. She is the author of the award-winning poetry collection We Come Elemental (Alice James
Enjoy this audio recording of “A Wendy House” by Molly Spencer from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Molly Spencer’s poetry has bee published or is forthcoming in Copper Nickel, FIELD, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review online, New England Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review, Kenyon Review Online, Tupelo Quarterly, and The Rumpus. She holds an
Enjoy this audio recording of “After Reading a Letter from the Addict” by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Professor of TESOL and World Language Education in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, Dr. Cahnmann-Taylor’s honors include a 2017 Richard Ruiz Scholar-Artist Residency Award (Guanajuato, MX); 2015
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Penelope Metaphor” by Kyla Marshell from Vol 27:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Kyla Marshell is a creative writer whose poems, essays, articles and interviews have appeared in Bookforum, BuzzFeed, Ebony.com, ESPNw, Gawker, The Guardian, Hannah Magazine, Kinfolk Magazine, O, the Oprah Magazine, PEN America, the Poetry Foundation, REVIVE Music, and elsewhere.
Enjoy this audio recording of “Collision” by Jenna Rindo from Vol. 27:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Jenna Rindo’s work has been published in Crab Orchard Review, Crab Creek Review, and Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine. She lives in rural Wisconsin with her family, and small flocks of Shetland
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Farm Floats, It Disappears” by Joni Lee from Vol. 27:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Joni Lee’s poems have been published in PMS: Poemmemoirstory, Juked, H_NGM_N, and elsewhere. She is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and lives in Denver, Colorado, with her husband and fellow poet,
Enjoy this audio recording of “Each Day I Open the Door to Damage” by Emily Pérez from Vol. 27:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Emily Pérez is the author of Backyard Migration Route and a recipient of grants and scholarships from the Artist Trust, Jack Straw Writers, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, Summer Literary Seminars, and
Enjoy this audio recording of “entirely lit up from within by Natalie Bryant Rizzieri” from Vol. 27:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Natalie Bryant Rizzieri’s poems have been published in journals such as Salamander Review, Crab Orchard Review, Oklahoma Review, Sugar House Review, Connotation Press, Redactions, Ascent, Permafrost, and Spec – Journal of
Enjoy this audio recording of “Cosmovore Finds Pluto Less Palatable Than Imagined” by Kristi Carter from Vol. 27:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Kristi Carter’s poems have appeared in publications including Alyss, Gertrude, So to Speak, poemmemoirstory (now Nelle), Nimrod, Naugatuck River Review, North Carolina Literary Review, Not Somewhere Else But Here:
Enjoy this audio recording of “Quantum Theory” by Victoria Kelly from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Victoria Kelly was born in New Jersey and graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University. A U.S. Mitchell Scholar, she received her M.Phil. in Creative Writing from Trinity College in
Enjoy this audio recording of “Resentment of the Dead Toward The Living” by Ann Gearen from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Ann Gearen is from Oak Park, IL, and worked for twenty-five years as a psychotherapist at a shelter for battered women. Her work is published in Primavera, Mobius, After Hours, and River
Enjoy this audio recording of “October Lines” by Liz Minette from Vol 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Liz Minette lives in Esko, MN, near Lake Superior. She’s been writing for about ten years. Publication credits include Abbey, Earth’s Daughters, Nerve Cowboy, and Many Mountains Moving, among others. She is part of a local writing
Enjoy this audio recording of “Kings of Metal” by Erin Swan from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Erin Swan is a writer of fiction and non-fiction whose work has been published in various journals, including Asia Literary Review, Bodega Magazine, and The Portland Review. She holds an MA in English Education from
Enjoy this audio recording of “How we Play with Dolls” by Avital Gad-Cykman from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Avital Gad Cykman was born and raised in Israel, lives in Brazil, and writes in English. She is the winner of Margaret Atwood Studies Magazine Prize and first placed in The
Enjoy this audio recording of “Fall From the Sky” by Kate Ver Ploeg from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Kate Ver Ploeg has lived and biked throughout the United States and abroad. She now lives where she grew up and studies in the University of New Hampshire MFA writing program.
Enjoy this audio recording of “By His Grave Eight Years Later, Pete’s Hat” by Catherine Freeling from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal, available here. Catherine Freeling worked in theatre and as a public school teacher before finding poetry. She has been a finalist in the Rattle, Nimrod, and Bellevue Literary Review poetry contests, and a
Enjoy this audio recording of “Dali’s Clock” by Tricia Knoll from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Tricia Knoll has degrees in literature from Stanford University (BA) and Yale University (MAT). Her poetry and haiku appear in numerous journals and several anthologies. Her most recent collection, How I Learned To Be
Enjoy this audio recording of “‘Twas Brillig at Marriage Counseling” by Mary Moore Easter from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Mary Moore Easter is a Cave Canem Fellow and poet/choreographer who mixes movement, text, and song, live and on video. Her chapbook is Walking from Origins. Professor of Dance Emerita at Carleton
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Second Son” by Elizabeth Berlin from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Elizabeth Berlin is a teacher, writer, and avid hiker in Tucson, AZ. Recent publications include a nonfiction piece, Death and the Canyon, featured in the Canadian literary, Room. The same piece was a headliner on the magazine’s website and
This interview with Catherine Freeling was conducted in 2016 and includes her poem “The Day We Searched for the Road with Our Name” from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal, available here. Catherine Freeling worked in theatre and as a public school teacher before finding poetry. She has been a finalist in the Rattle, Nimrod, and
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Shear Magic Salon” by Sharon Pretti from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sharon Pretti lives in San Francisco, California. Her work has been published in Nostos, Spillway, MARGIE, The Bellevue Literary Review, The Comstock Review, The Healing Muse and other journals. She is an
Enjoy this audio recording of “Specified Tolerance” by Carla Laureen Bollinger from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Carla Laureen Bollinger is an author of cookbooks, Souper Skinny Soups and Vegetarians in the Fast Lane, travel, news editorials, and historical articles, but it is poetry that keeps her awake at night. She is a member of
Enjoy this audio recording of “Rise Up” by Nicole Rollender from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Nicole Rollender is the author of the poetry chapbooks Absence of Stars (July 2015, dancing girl press & studio), Little Deaths (November 2015, ELJ Publications), and Arrangement of Desire (Pudding House Publications). She’s the recipient
Enjoy this audio recording of “Proof” by Grace Mattern from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Grace Mattern’s poetry and short fiction have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines, including Prairie Schooner, The Sun, Poet Lore, Cider Press Review, and Yankee. She has received fellowships from the New Hampshire
Enjoy this audio recording of “Period” by Catherine Lewis from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Catherine Lewis is the author of three books, most recently Thrice Told Tales (Simon & Schuster). Her shorter works have been published in magazines such as The Bellevue Literary Review, South Loop Review, and DASH Journal. She
Enjoy this audio recording of “How the Birds Returned” by Sharon Pretti from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sharon Pretti lives in San Francisco, California. Her work has been published in Nostos, Spillway, MARGIE, The Bellevue Literary Review, The Comstock Review, The Healing Muse and other journals. She is an
Enjoy this audio recording of “Brick Heart” by DJ Gaskin from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. DJ Gaskin has published poetry in Gargoyle, SLAB, The Comstock Review, Iodine Poetry Journal, DeepWater Literary Review, Ars Medica and others. She also has work in two anthologies and was a finalist in Arlington, Virginia’s “Moving Words” contest. DJ’s
Enjoy this audio recording of “U. of Wisconsin 1995” by Malisa Garlieb from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Malisa Garlieb is a Waldorf teacher living and working in Shelburne, VT. Her poems have been published in Off the Coast, Painted Bride Quarterly, Lines + Stars, and Compass Rose, among others. Her first book, Recurring Down-slurred Trill, is forthcoming by Sunridge
Enjoy this audio recording of “Memento Mori” by Joan Ryan from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Joan Roberta Ryan is the author of the poetry collection Dark Ladies & Other Avatars (3: A Taos Press, 2017). Her poems have been published in Atlanta Review, Nimrod, The Sow’s Ear Review, Spillway, Naugatuck River Review,
Enjoy this audio recording of “Leave Here Knowing by Elizabeth Oakes,” a review by Sherry Chandler from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sherry Chandler is the author of The Woodcarver’s Wife and Weaving a New Eden. Her poems and reviews have appeared in many periodicals, including Smartish Pace, The Cortland
Enjoy this audio recording of “A Rite of Friendship” by Ann Mallen from issue 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Ann Mallen is a writer based in West Palm Beach and Pittsburgh. Her work often focuses on the struggle of the individual in relation to institutional, psycho-social, and cultural power. She graduated
Enjoy this audio recording of “When Summer Falls” 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
