Enjoy this audio recording of “Specimens Mounts 4 and 28” by Amy Wright from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here.
Amy Wright is Nonfiction Editor of Zone 3 journal, Coordinator of Creative Writing at Austin Peay State University, and author of Everything in the Universe, Cracker Sonnets, and five chapbooks including the prose collection, Wherever the Land Is.
Enjoy this audio recording of “Halfway In” by Judy Halebsky from issue 27:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Judy Halebsky is the author of the poetry collections Sky=Empty, Tree Line and the chapbook Space/Gap/Interval/Distance. Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, and the Vermont Studio Center have supported her work. Her passions include the Moth-style storytelling…
Enjoy this audio recording of “Sister Psalm” by Katherine Lo from issue 30:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Katherine Lo is a writer and high school English teacher who lives in Southern California. Her work has previously been featured in Poet Lore, Rattle (Poets Respond), and Qu.
“Dad and Mom got divorced two years ago. Mom says they split up because Dad is selfish and wants to sow his wild oats, two decades too late, and doesn’t want to be burdened by the demands of a family. Dad says they split up because of Sarah. Dad says that the death of a child strips the skin off a marriage, and if the bones underneath aren’t strong, everything falls apart.”
“Always, I begin
with nothing and too much
to say.”
“This morning I watched a kinglet
—a bird so quick it often evades
human gaze—flit only a foot
from my husband’s face. I watched
the corners of his eyes lift.”
“It’s almost September again.
I sit stiffening in the wide
wicker chair, watching
my line break while late summer folds
the garden like a spent libretto, edges
shredded to a slatternly fringe.”