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 of CALYX’s 2014 Lois Cranston Memorial Prize, the 2012 Princemere Journal Poetry Prize, and Ruminate Magazine’s 2012 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize for her poem, “Necessary Work,” chosen by Li-Young Lee. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, H_NGM_N, Harpur Palate, Heron Tree, MiPOesias, and THRUSH Poetry Journal, among others.
She received her MFA from Pennsylvania State University and currently serves as editor/media director for Minerva Rising Literary Journal and editor of Stitches magazine, which recently won a Jesse H. Neal Award from American Business Media. Visit her online at www.nicolerollender.com