CALYX Inc.

05/20/2026

Join us for a celebratory reading (LIVE, Zoom) from our 50th anniversary issue, including featured readers Ingrid Wendt and Elizabeth McLagan, alongside a vibrant lineup of women+ poets and prose writers whose work continues the rich literary tradition of CALYX.

For five decades, CALYX has amplified bold, transformative voices in literature and art. This anniversary issue honors that legacy while celebrating the writers shaping the future of feminist and inclusive storytelling today.

We invite readers, writers, and supporters everywhere to gather with us online for an evening of powerful work, connection, and celebration.

Event Details
Date: May 29
Time: 5:30 PM Pacific Time
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: Free

Advance registration is required to receive the Zoom link.
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/qqoN4xTLRpmo23_RhUT_ng

We hope you’ll join us in celebrating 50 years of literary community, creative courage, and women+ voices.

05/05/2026

05/05/2026

Where can you find CALYX Journal on the shelf in Portland? Broadway Books! ! +

05/01/2026

Folks! We have two Wendy Gordon titles available for readers to review!
We publish reviews! calyxpress.org/book-reviews/

04/30/2026

As we reach the end of National Poetry Month, the Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize is open for submissions. This prize honors bold, resonant poetry—and the legacy of a writer who believed deeply in the power of women’s voices.

If you’ve been holding onto a poem, revising, waiting for the right moment—this is it.

Let National Poetry Month be your nudge:
✨ Submit the poem
✨ Take the chance
✨ Be part of a long tradition of fierce, necessary work

Deadline approaching. We’re ready to read you. Guidelines at Calyxpress.org

04/28/2026

This concrete poem by Stella Reed moves on the page so wonderfully. Stella Reed co-authored the poetry book We Are Meant to Carry Water. Winner of the Jacar Press Chapbook Prize for Myth from the field where the fox runs with its tail on fire and the Tusculum Review chapbook contest for Origami. Stella teaches poetry in homeless and domestic violence shelters and Title I public schools. Vol. 35:3.

04/26/2026

Senior editor Brenna Crotty on 'the mystery' that is CALYX. Full interview at calyxpress.org.

04/25/2026

Judith Arcana was a tireless advocate for abortion rights and a funny and imaginative poet who was published in CALYX many times over the last three decades. Her death is a tremendous loss to our community.

Listen to her read her poems aloud at https://www.calyxpress.org/persephone-talks-to-her-girlfriends-on-her-cell-phone-by-judith-arcana/ and read an obituary at https://www.thestranger.com/arts/remembering-judith-arcana-80453858/

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 an...

04/24/2026

We’re delighted to present two sonnets by Diane Raptosh, author of American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press), longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award. Her fourth collection, I Eric America, includes the poem “I’d like to trill you a song about end worlds,” which traveled to the moon in November 2024 as part of NASA’s Artemis mission—becoming part of the Lunar Codex archived at the moon’s south pole.

For her current project, Come Across, Raptosh composes poems through an inventive, constraint-based process. Working with a set of German-language flashcards she keeps at home, she begins each poem by drawing a card at random, allowing its English translation to shape the piece. The words may surface in the title, echo as a refrain, or otherwise steer the poem’s direction. This interplay of chance and rule—the obligation to incorporate the card’s content—has proven a generative force in her recent work.

Source on current project: Cynthia Mwenja, “The Expression of Life at The College of Idaho,” Private University Products and News magazine.

Mwenja, Cynthia. “The Expression of Life at The College of Idaho.” Private University Products and News magazine, n.d., Read article: https://pupnmag.com

04/23/2026

Stories cross borders. So do the voices we publish.

This World Book Day, we’re celebrating books that carry lived experience, resistance, imagination, and truth across languages, cultures, and generations.

For 50 years, CALYX has amplified writers whose work reaches beyond place—because the most powerful stories don’t stay local. They travel. They connect. They change us.

📚 Read globally.
📚 Share widely.
📚 Support independent, feminist publishing.