Enjoy this audio recording of “Thoughts on Gay Marriage While Visiting My Lover’s Parents” by Judy Ireland from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Born and raised in the Midwest, Judy Ireland’s poetry benefits from the verdancy and barefaced authenticity of that working class culture which keeps her work grounded and…
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Script” by Rosa del Duca from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Rosa del Duca is a writer, journalist, teacher and musician. A California transplant, she grew up in Montana, where she joined the National Guard at seventeen years of age. Four years later she…
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Death of Chang and Eng 1811-1874” by Jennifer Fandel from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. In graduate school, Jennifer Fandel taught both at the university-level and the community, and she also began working in publishing at that time. Her work in the publishing field…
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Air” by Sandra Kohler from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sandra Kohler’s third collection of poems, Improbable Music, (Word Press) appeared in May 2011. Earlier collections are The Country of Women (Calyx, 1995) and The Ceremonies of Longing, winner of the 2002 Associated Writing Programs Award Series in…
Enjoy this audio recording of “My Brother Who Doesn’t Speak to Our Mother Comes to Visit” 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…
Enjoy this audio recording of “Layl-tul-Qadr (The Night of Power)” by Aisha Sharif from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Aisha is a Cave Canem fellow who resides in Shawnee, Kansas, a suburb that borders Kansas City, Missouri. Her debut poetry collection, To Keep From Undressing, is available here. As an…
Enjoy this audio recording of “Impossible Questions” by Eugenia Leigh from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Eugenia Leigh is the author of Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows, winner of the 2015 Debut-litzer Prize in Poetry and finalist for both the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The…
Enjoy this audio recording of “If This Looks Odd” by M.L. Brown from issue 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. M. L. Brown is the author of Drought, winner of the Claudia Emerson Poetry Chapbook Award, forthcoming from jmww in 2016. Her poems have been published in various journals and anthologies including Blackbird, PMS PoemMemoirStory, Gertrude,…
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 “Good Friday” by Sandra Kohler from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sandra Kohler’s third collection of poems, Improbable Music, (Word Press) appeared in May 2011. Earlier collections are The Country of Women (Calyx, 1995) and The Ceremonies of Longing, winner of the 2002 Associated Writing Programs Award Series in…