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 “When Summer Falls” 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…
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 “This is a Question Mark Ready to Fly” by Sarah Jane Holsteen from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sarah Jane Holsteen holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her work has previously been published in South Loop Review and Drunken Boat….
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 “Persephone Talks to Her Girlfriends on Her Cell Phone” 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…
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 “Interdit” by Gillian Cummings from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Gillian Cummings is the author of The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, selected by John Yau as the winner of the 2018 Colorado Prize for Poetry (The Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University, 2018)…
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 “A Name for the Year’s Longest Night” by Ruth Awad from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Ruth Awad is an award-winning Lebanese-American poet whose debut poetry collection Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press 2017) won the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and…