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Enjoy this audio recording of “How Does the Dog Spend Her Day” by Margaret Hasse from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Margaret Hasse’s five books of poems are Stars Above, Stars Below; In a Sheep’s Eye, Darling; Milk and Tides; Earth’s Appetite; and Between Us. The books have been prizewinners and bestsellers. Hasse is

Enjoy this audio recording of “after ten years, a net” by Tamiko Beyer from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Tamiko Beyer writes to shape change: thought-provoking essays, poetry that pushes boundaries, and hard-hitting articles that challenge the status quo. She is the author of the award-winning poetry collection We Come Elemental (Alice James

Enjoy this audio recording of “After Reading a Letter from the Addict” by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Professor of TESOL and World Language Education in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, Dr. Cahnmann-Taylor’s honors include a 2017 Richard Ruiz Scholar-Artist Residency Award (Guanajuato, MX); 2015

Enjoy this audio recording of “Collision” by Jenna Rindo from Vol. 27:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Jenna Rindo’s work has been published in Crab Orchard Review, Crab Creek Review, and Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine. She lives in rural Wisconsin with her family, and small flocks of Shetland

Enjoy this audio recording of “Each Day I Open the Door to Damage” by Emily Pérez from Vol. 27:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Emily Pérez is the author of Backyard Migration Route and a recipient of grants and scholarships from the Artist Trust, Jack Straw Writers, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, Summer Literary Seminars, and

Enjoy this audio recording of “Cosmovore Finds Pluto Less Palatable Than Imagined” by Kristi Carter from Vol. 27:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Kristi Carter’s poems have appeared in publications including Alyss, Gertrude, So to Speak, poemmemoirstory (now Nelle), Nimrod, Naugatuck River Review, North Carolina Literary Review, Not Somewhere Else But Here:

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

Enjoy this audio recording of “Kings of Metal” by Erin Swan from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Erin Swan is a writer of fiction and non-fiction whose work has been published in various journals, including Asia Literary Review, Bodega Magazine, and The Portland Review. She holds an MA in English Education from

Enjoy this audio recording of “Fall From the Sky” by Kate Ver Ploeg from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Kate Ver Ploeg has lived and biked throughout the United States and abroad. She now lives where she grew up and studies in the University of New Hampshire MFA writing program.

Enjoy this audio recording of “Dali’s Clock” by Tricia Knoll from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Tricia Knoll has degrees in literature from Stanford University (BA) and Yale University (MAT). Her poetry and haiku appear in numerous journals and several anthologies. Her most recent collection, How I Learned To Be

Enjoy this audio recording of “The Second Son” by Elizabeth Berlin from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Elizabeth Berlin is a teacher, writer, and avid hiker in Tucson, AZ. Recent publications include a nonfiction piece, Death and the Canyon, featured in the Canadian literary, Room. The same piece was a headliner on the magazine’s website and

Enjoy this audio recording of “The Shear Magic Salon” by Sharon Pretti from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sharon Pretti lives in San Francisco, California.  Her work has been published in Nostos, Spillway, MARGIE, The Bellevue Literary Review, The Comstock Review, The Healing Muse and other journals.  She is an

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

Enjoy this audio recording of “Period” by Catherine Lewis from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Catherine Lewis is the author of three books, most recently Thrice Told Tales (Simon & Schuster). Her shorter works have been published in magazines such as The Bellevue Literary Review, South Loop Review, and DASH Journal. She

Enjoy this audio recording of “Brick Heart” by DJ Gaskin from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. DJ Gaskin has published poetry in Gargoyle, SLAB, The Comstock Review, Iodine Poetry Journal, DeepWater Literary Review, Ars Medica and others. She also has work in two anthologies and was a finalist in Arlington, Virginia’s “Moving Words” contest. DJ’s

Enjoy this audio recording of “Memento Mori” by Joan Ryan from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Joan Roberta Ryan is the author of the poetry collection Dark Ladies & Other Avatars (3: A Taos Press, 2017).  Her poems have been published in Atlanta Review, Nimrod, The Sow’s Ear Review, Spillway, Naugatuck River Review,

Enjoy this audio recording of “A Rite of Friendship” by Ann Mallen from issue 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Ann Mallen is a writer based in West Palm Beach and Pittsburgh. Her work often focuses on the struggle of the individual in relation to institutional, psycho-social, and cultural power. She graduated

Enjoy this audio recording of “This is the Place Where Sound Was Born” by Bonny Barry Sanders from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Bonny Barry Sanders’ poems have been published in Blueline, Chattahoochee Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Connecticut Review, Carolina Quarterly, Ibbetson Street, Florida Review, The Louisiana Review, Puckerbrush Review, and The

Enjoy this audio recording of “Recalculating” by Jennifer Burd from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Jennifer Burd has had poetry published in numerous print and online journals. She is author of two full-length books of poetry, Days’ Late Blue  (2017; Cherry Grove Collections) and Body and Echo (2010; PlainView Press), a chapbook with CD of

Enjoy this audio recording of “Melon Mouth” by Taijhet Nyobi from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Taijhet Nyobi is an artist of African descent based in Oakland, CA. Her poetry has been published by Saul Williams, online magazines, and several literary journals. She is the 2014 grant recipient of the

Enjoy this audio recording of “Amanat” by Lisa Dordal from issue 28.3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Lisa Dordal is the author of Mosaic of the Dark (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and teaches in the English Department at Vanderbilt University. A Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of an Academy of American Poets

Enjoy this audio recording of “Whitetail” by Abby Minor from Vol. 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Abby Minor lives in the ridges and valleys of central Pennsylvania, where she works on poems, essays, gardens, paintings, quilts, and projects for reproductive justice. She’s received fellowships, residencies, and awards from Bitch Media, Split

Enjoy these audio recordings of “Blessing” and “How Joy is Never Erased” by Edwina Trentham from issue 29:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Edwina Trentham is a Professor of English at Asnuntuck Community College, where she is also the Editor of Freshwater, a national poetry journal, which celebrated its Tenth Anniversary in

Enjoy this audio recording of “Harvest” by Mary Salisbury from issue 29:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Mary Salisbury, an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship recipient and finalist for the Orlando Poetry Prize, graduated with an MFA in Writing from Pacific University. Finishing Line Press published Salisbury’s chapbook, Come What May, in 2014.

Enjoy this audio recording of “Badmash Company” by Tania Malik from issue 29:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Tania Malik was born in New Delhi, and raised in India, Africa, and the Middle East. She was educated in boarding schools in the foothills of the Himalayas, and graduated from the University of

Enjoy this audio recording of “Mayakovsky Ghost” by Svetlana Beggs from issue 30:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Svetlana Beggs is a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, and holds an M.A. in Philosophy. Her poems will appear in forthcoming issues of Columbia Poetry Review and Pleiades, and her flash story was in a recent issue

Enjoy this audio recording of “A Wheel of Brie” by Meredith Davies Hadaway  from issue 30:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. An award-winning poet and teacher of ecopoetry, Meredith Davies Hadaway is the author of three collections of poetry, At The Narrows, (2015) The River is a Reason (2011) and Fishing Secrets of the Dead (2005), all issued

Enjoy this audio recording of “The Space Between Missing and Dead” by Susana H. Case from issue 30:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here: https://testing.calyxpress.org/product-category/journals/ Susana H. Case is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, Erasure, Syria, new in 2018 from Recto y Verson Editions and Drugstore Blue, 2017 from Five Oaks Press,

“The Vanishing” by Maris Handler was the recipient of the 2017 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize and published in issue 30:2 of CALYX Journal, available here. Marisa Handler is a writer, singer-songwriter, teacher, and coach. She is the author of the memoir Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist, which won a Nautilus Gold Award for

Enjoy this audio recording of “Zombies on Skateboards” by Judith Arcana from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Born and raised in the Great Lakes region, living now in the Pacific Northwest, Judith Arcana is a writer of poems, stories, essays and books. Praised by writers and readers, reviewers and community

On May 5, 2017, Barbara Baldwin—poet and founding editor of CALYX—passed away. I didn’t have the privilege of knowing Barbara long enough, although I’d been hearing about her for years as a pillar of the Corvallis community. She was a patient at my father’s optometry clinic, and he would often come home and ask me

Last Thursday, I had the tremendous privilege of attending the Vancouver International Film Festival, where I was able to see an early screening of Into the Forest, the new Patricia Rozema film based on Jean Hegland’s novel of the same name. I also had the privilege of posting cheeky tweets about it throughout the day, but

CALYX’s General Submission period opens next Thursday, October 1st, and runs until December 31st. I love this time of year because I get to read beautiful, brilliant poetry and prose for four months straight. But I recognize that for the women who submit, this can be an extremely frustrating time. After all, if you submit in October,