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 include Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards for 2015 and 2017, as well as nominations for a Pushcart and “Best of the Net.”
She was the Events Chair for the Marin Poetry Center 2012-2014 and has just retired as an Instructor from Santa Rosa Jr. College.
Her four chapbooks published in 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013 are This Water, Body Rhymes, Wild Mercy, and Following Hay.
The Place of Our Meeting (2018) is her first full-length poetry collection.