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 Oak Arts,where her poem “Homecoming” was a prizewinner. Her recent poetry collection is also titled Homecoming.