“I have the same disease my family does.
I try to tell stories to make things right.
I keep trying to tell our stories right
because I want to understand our past.“
Enjoy this audio recording of “Duplex” by Carrie Shipers from Vol. 34:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy your copy here!
Carrie Shipers’s poems have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and other journals. She is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Grief Land (University of New Mexico, 2020).