“Always, I begin
with nothing and too much
to say.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “Why I Still Haven’t Written About the Rape” by Adrie Rose from Vol. 34:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy your copy here!
Adrie Rose has previously published in Nimrod, The Night Heron Barks, Underblong, Witness, and more. She has a micro chap forthcoming in 2023 with Porkbelly Press, and her chapbook, Rupture, is forthcoming with Gold Line Press in 2023. She won the Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Prize, the Ethel Olin Corbin Prize, and the Gertrude Posner Spencer Prize in 2021, and the Anne Bradstreet Prize, the Eleanor Cederstrom Prize, and the Mary Augusta Jordan Prize in 2022. She lives in Deerfield, MA. “Why I Still Haven’t Written About the Rape” was written with thanks to Toi Dericotte.