Enjoy this audio recording of “Leave Here Knowing by Elizabeth Oakes,” a review by Sherry Chandler from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here.
Sherry Chandler is the author of The Woodcarver’s Wife and Weaving a New Eden. Her poems and reviews have appeared in many periodicals, including Smartish Pace, The Cortland Review, and the Southern Women’s Review.
Elizabeth Oakes is a writer, poet, humanist, feminist, and mystic. She’s a farm girl with a Ph.D. (Shakespeare, Vanderbilt). She used to teach Shakespeare and Women’s Poetry at the university level, but now she’s a student of the universe. She lives in spiritual places like Glastonbury, England, and Sedona, Arizona. She does what the muses tell her to.