It has been QUITE a summer. How fast it went. And now the Olympics are over, we’re out of Afghanistan, and fall is just around the corner.… Read more “Share Your Desktop Photo Challenge: August 2021”
Tag: Calyx Press
Lens-Artists Challenge # 110: Creativity in the Time of COVID
Self was inspired by this Photo Challenge (Creativity in the Time of COVID) to give a shout-out to the USPS. She bought a sheet of first-class stamps… Read more “Lens-Artists Challenge # 110: Creativity in the Time of COVID”
Poetry Wednesday: Chitra Divakaruni
from Chitra Divakaruni’s ravishing poetry collection Black Candle (Calyx Books, 1991) Bengal Nights When foxes sing out behind the bamboo grove and cranes’ wings whip the black… Read more “Poetry Wednesday: Chitra Divakaruni”
Poetry Tuesday: Genny Lim
from The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women’s Anthology, edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa, and Margarita Donnelly (Calyx Books, 1989) CHILDREN ARE COLOR-BLIND I never… Read more “Poetry Tuesday: Genny Lim”
Flash Fiction Tuesday: Shirley Ancheta
Kristine appeared in Going Home to a Landscape: a Filipino Women’s Anthology, co-edited by self and Virginica Cerenio (Calyx Press). From the moment self first came across… Read more “Flash Fiction Tuesday: Shirley Ancheta”
CALYX and the Nineteenth Amendment: Call for Submissions (Ends 31 July)
from Brenna Crotty, Senior Editor, Calyx: Next year, in 2020, the United States will celebrate the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, and CALYX Press will turn forty-four… Read more “CALYX and the Nineteenth Amendment: Call for Submissions (Ends 31 July)”
New Year, New Issues: Prairie Schooner and Calyx
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Poetry Friday: Wislawa Szymborska
from Utopia For all its charms, the island is uninhabited, and the faint footprints scattered on its beaches turn without exception to the sea. As if all… Read more “Poetry Friday: Wislawa Szymborska”
Wondering About Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 3
It is sweltering here up in the Pasadena Hills, and self feels no inclination to go outside. In the daytime, Pasadena is a sleepy city. At night,… Read more “Wondering About Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 3”
#amreadingpoetry: Paula Gunn Allen
An excerpt from Paula Gunn Allen’s Dear World, included in the Calyx anthology A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-Five Years of Women’s Poetry Dear World: Mother has lupus. She… Read more “#amreadingpoetry: Paula Gunn Allen”
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