Join us for this reading of poets and writers of their own work from issue 35:2.

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“Once, I was my brother’s subject. He controlled time, light moving across my face in steady increments“ Enjoy this audio recording of “Test Strip for Maximum Black” by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren from Vol. 35:1 of CALYX Journal!

“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.” Enjoy this audio recording of “At the Reservoir” by Stephanie Striffler from Vol. 35:1 of CALYX Journal!

Poets! We’re reaching the final two weeks! #poetrycontest #womenpoets #poetryprize

“they sent me flowers the summer you died as if more death was a consolation—” Enjoy this audio recording of “she loves me (flower sounds)” by Fredda S. Pearlson from Vol. 35:1 of CALYX Journal!

Today's contributor is Tiffany Promise, author of "The Cave-In, The Empty." www.tiffanypromise.com. Order your copy at buff.ly/VYEr144. Tiffany Promise (she/her) is a writer, poet, punk vocalist, chronic migraineur, and the mother of two wildlings. Winner of the 2023 Honeybee Prize for Literature.

“Say you thought you were pregnant. [...] But this is 1979, and those tests don’t work until you’re a few weeks along. It’s not like today, where you blink and find out you’re pregnant before you even miss a period.” Enjoy this audio recording of “1979″ by Maureen D. Hall.

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren, author of "Wild Indigo" and "Test Strip for Maximum Black" (pictured). buff.ly/DDBcsNJ. Photo credit Sonia Bazar. Order at buff.ly/VYEr144. Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren is a poet and translator in Montreal, Quebec.

Today's contributor is Brittany Micka-Foos, author of "Border Crossings." buff.ly/QomQE2U. Order your copy at buff.ly/VYEr144. Brittany Micka-Foos is the author of the chapbook a litany of words as fragile as window glass and the short story collection It's No Fun Anymore.

Today's contributor is Patricia Murphy, author of "The Perfectionist Goes to Boarding School." Order your copy of Vol. 35:1 at buff.ly/VYEr144. Patricia Murphy retired from Arizona State where she taught writing and magazine production and founded the literary magazine Superstition Review.

June is the LAST month to submit to the 25th Annual Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Ellen Bass! See www.calyxpress.org for full guidelines. Photograph by Irene Young.

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Faith Gómez Clark, author of "When a Friend Asks Me What It's Like to Be a Mother with Dissociative Identity Disorder." www.faithgomezclark.com. Order your copy of Vol. 35:1 at buff.ly/VYEr144.

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Laurel Ferejohn, who reviewed Stephanie Clare Smith's memoir, Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination. www.laurelferejohn.com Read the full review at buff.ly/k1UgOdR.

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Elisabeth Adwin Edwards, author of "Coastal Acoustics." buff.ly/cYCusMw Edwards’s poems have been published in The Tampa Review, B O D Y Literature, and elsewhere; her prose has been published in HAD, CutBank, On The Seawall, and other journals.

“I never thought I’d leave until I realized it was okay if he only remembered me as a weight.” Enjoy this audio recording of “Echo” by Jessica E. Pierce from Vol. 35:1 of CALYX Journal!

“The speaker of the poem, V. Simon the Cyrene, admits, On all sides I am jostled / by witnesses of an execution. / They say the man had a knife / and the guards shot him down.” Enjoy this audio recording of Jonathan Fletcher’s review of E.D. Watson’s Via Dolorosa and Advent Wreath from Vol. 35:1.

Jessie Wingate is a florist and poet living on unceded Ohlone land in California. She holds an MA in art history. Her work has been published in Mother Mag, Chestnut Review, F(r)iction, and others. www.jessiewingate.com. Order your copy of Vol. 35:1 at buff.ly/QaU7BU6.

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Lalini Shanela Ranaraja, author of "Bleachers" and "Heiligenblut." Ranaraja is a multigenre creative from Kandy, Sri Lanka. She has written for Wildness, Hunger Mountain, Strange Horizons, Sky Island Journal, and others. www.shanelaranaraja.com.

"She’s like, 'You can’t burn the books; these are readers reading this book! Please, I beg of you, don’t burn all the books.' And I was like, 'I have to burn all the books.'" Listen to (or read) the full interview between author Jean Hegland and CALYX's Debbra Palmer at buff.ly/sn8RP9V.

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Kimberly Ann Priest, author of "What People See." Order your copy at buff.ly/QaU7BU6. Kimberly Ann Priest is the author of Slaughter the One Bird (Sundress 2021), tether & lung (Texas Review Press 2025), and Floralia (Unsolicited Press 2025). buff.ly/1pMhAyO

“A rare sunny day in a birdy wetland—at least you’ll be able to do this when you’re old. You think, I suppose it’s time to think about death. And that’s enough of that.” Enjoy this audio recording of “It’s Out of Your Hands” by Patricia Canright Smith from Vol. 35:1 of CALYX Journal!

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Lisa Sheets, author of "Portrait of Marie Curie." buff.ly/DgsqlT1. Order at buff.ly/z42QCqv. Lisa Sheets is a former sculptor and flutist who now devotes her time to artist books, mixed media collage, vintage doll collecting, and sign language interpreting.

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Katherine P.F. Holmes, author of "St. Elmo's Fire." kpfholmes.com. Order your copy at buff.ly/z42QCqv. Katherine P. F. Holmes is a fiction writer and MFA student at Emerson College. Her work has been published in Eternal Haunted Summer and Litbreak Magazine.

Artists and writers: When and how do we talk about money and all of its "trappings"? Dare we address the undervaluation of creative labor? What about creative time vs. caregiving responsibilities, or selling vs. self-censorship? Free webinar this Thursday! 5:30 PT - calyxpress.org lnkd.in/gfm8veJd

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Wendy Wisner, author of the poems "As Though the Whole Thing Never Happened" and "Nothing's Okay and Everything's Fine." www.wendywisner.com. Order your copy at buff.ly/z42QCqv.

“Girl-shaped things guzzle Sylvia Plath SlimFast shakes for breakfast eat their own fingernails for lunch” Enjoy this audio recording of “The Cave-In, The Empty” by Tiffany Promise from Vol. 35:1 of CALYX Journal!

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Marin Smith, author of "The Open Heart." marinsmithwrites.wordpress.org. Order your copy at buff.ly/z42QCqv. Marin Smith is a wordwrangler, poet, essayist, mother, and an Enneagram 4. She has an MA in English from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Susanna Lang, who reviewed Jen Karetnick's "Inheritance with a High Error Rate." www.susannalang.com/ Read the entire review at buff.ly/vuEuvrm.

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Rochelle Hurt, author of "Carmen Herrera--Blanco y Verde (1959)." www.rochellehurt.com. Order your copy at buff.ly/z42QCqv. Rochelle Hurt is the author of four poetry collections, including The J Girls: A Reality Show (Indiana University Press, 2022).

"The rock hits their windshield like spit in the face... To Miriam, it looks like practically nothing, just a faint indent in the glass, but she knows that by tomorrow it will have spread across the windshield. Somebody will have to repair it.” Enjoy this audio recording of “Border Crossings.”

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Rodríguez Calero, whose artwork mixes a modern and traditional culture and beliefs. Juxtaposing imagery is drawn from classical art, religion, and contemporary urban culture, blurring lines of gender, ethnicity, race, and sexuality. www.rodriguezcalero.com.

National Poetry Month, Day 30 "For CALYX," by Ursula K. Le Guin, CALYX Journal, Vol. 12:3, 1990. Order your copy at buff.ly/7OuuiLY. #nationalpoetrymonth #womenpoets #smallpresspublishing

Artists! This is a reminder that submissions sent to us by Thursday, May 1 will be considered for publication in our upcoming issue (Vol. 35:2, summer/fall). Any submissions received after May 1 will be considered in December. Submit now at buff.ly/Ow0Xibf (it's free!).

National Poetry Month, Day 29 "After I Lied Straight Through My First Confession" by Grace Danborn, CALYX Journal, Vol. 24:1, 2007. Order your copy at buff.ly/zYWOSNn. #nationalpoetrymonth #womenpoets #smallpresspublishing

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Katherine Gekker, author of In Search of Warm Breathing Things. She serves as Assistant Poetry Editor for Delmarva Review. Two collections of her poems have been set to music by composers Eric Ewazen and Carson Cooman. Order your copy of Vol. 35:1 at buff.ly/ozpKEUh

National Poetry Month, Day 28 "Nursling" by Susan Spady, CALYX Journal, Vol. 12:2, 1989. Order your copy at buff.ly/QKlxYZD. #nationalpoetrymonth #womenpoets #smallpresspublishing

National Poetry Month, Day 27 "Gift" by Chaia Zblocki Heller, CALYX Journal, Vol. 14:1, 1992. Order your copy at buff.ly/eSm1fG2. #nationalpoetrymonth #womenpoets #smallpresspublishing

National Poetry Month, Day 26 "Mother of Revelations" by Rosa Maria Arenas, CALYX Journal, Vol. 13:2, 1991. Order your copy at buff.ly/eRb04f2. #nationalpoetrymonth #womenpoets #smallpresspublishing

“When the phone shakes my grandfather from bed, a stranger is saying my brother’s name: Do you know where, the fluorescent voice flickers, Peter is?” buff.ly/n3fJzaT Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren is a poet and translator in Montreal, Quebec.

National Poetry Month, Day 25 "Why I'll Want You at My Deathbed" by Mary Makofske, CALYX Journal, Vol. 24:3, 2008. Order your copy at buff.ly/vKrgDsV. #nationalpoetrymonth #womenpoets #smallpresspublishing

National Poetry Month, Day 24 "Circle of Friends" by Jacqueline Jules, CALYX Journal, Vol. 24:1, 2007. Link in bio. #nationalpoetrymonth #womenpoets #smallpresspublishing

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Andrea Potos, author of the poem "Waiting Beside My Father." See more of her work at andreapotos.com. Order your copy of the new issue at buff.ly/eKeZJsr. Andrea Potos is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Her Joy Becomes (Fernwood Press).

National Poetry Month, Day 23 "Simply" by Frances Payne Adler, CALYX Journal, Vol. 13:1, 1991. Order your copy at buff.ly/OLsXwvL. #nationalpoetrymonth #womenpoets #smallpresspublishing

National Poetry Month, Day 22 "The Purpose of Purpose" by Penelope Scambly Schott, CALYX Journal, Vol. 23:1, 2006. Order your copy at buff.ly/yX1Ffzr. #nationalpoetrymonth #womenpoets #smallpresspublishing

Today's Vol. 35:1 contributor is Susan Pollet, the artist behind "Sticking Together" and "Window Ledge." See more of her work at susanpollet.com. Order your copy at buff.ly/ozpKEUh. Susan L. Pollet is a visual artist whose works have appeared in multiple art shows and literary publications.