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 Carolina Writers’ Network’s chapbook contest, and a finalist for the Southwest Review’s 2017 Marr Prize. Her poems have been published in Chattahoochee Review, Timberline, Willawaw, and others. She has recently been drawn from North Carolina to Oregon by grandchildren.