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Articles by Jennifer Calkins
A Story of Witchery
Fantasy, fear, and freedom all play a part in A Story of Witchery, a book-length narrative poem by Jennifer Calkins, and newly illustrated by Thor Harris.
Uganda Kitchen Project fundraiser at Our Lady of Lourdes Interparish School exceeds goal - The Catholic Missourian
He gave his whole self to us, and we want to strive to be like him. So, it’s always great for us to try to be like him and do what we can.” A project to build a new kitchen for a large Catholic boarding school in Uganda will move forward, with money to spare. Unwavering support from students, staff, families and Our Lady of Lourdes parishioners allowed Our Lady of Lourdes Interparish School (OLLIS) in Columbia not only to meet but exceed its Uganda Kitchen Project fundraising goal.
Excerpt from The Deer
Lights: I. The accident There were no deer. This I mutter under my breath. Here the frogs pushed slow, cascading bubbles through their throats, the tall, wet grass bowed before the black river, splintered rungs wound the peeling trunk of an old oak. There were no deer. A deer was something you saw in your backyard through red binoculars, nibbling away the berries meant for your mother’s birthday. Not here, by pavement and guard rails, red flashing lights and puddles of gasoline.
Excerpt from Born Into This: "Born Into This" | The Offing
The air was so crisp as Kara stepped out of the car that her first breath became a gasp and the inside of her nose burned. She leaned into the passenger seat of her beat-up red Corolla and reefed her puffer jacket out from under the mountain of clutter. The heat of the interior caressed her face like a warm hand and she almost succumbed to the temptation to get back inside. Her jacket rustled and swished as she slid into its pillowy folds.
Opinion | The HEAL Act gives WA a path to environmental justice
Luckily, this legislative session, state lawmakers can take a step to address this history and begin to heal communities by passing the Healthy Environment for All, or HEAL, Act, Senate Bill 5141. Our government regularly makes decisions that affect our relationship to the environment. These range from where to dispose of toxic waste and sewage to how much to invest in public transportation and where to permit logging operations.
Washington Can’t (and Doesn’t Have to) Wait!
For years, Washington failed to fully address climate change, rising housing insecurity, and the impacts of decades of environmental injustice. This summer, wildfires coupled with the Covid-19 pandemic, provided a very tangible sense of the growing threat resulting from this failure. The pandemic laid bare the risks of housing insecurity and demonstrated the increased risks of mortality from Covid-19 in areas subject to higher rates of pollution.
Excerpt from Days of Distraction
In Davis, his parents give us one of their cars, in better condition than our old car (also from his parents) and roomier, for the cross-country drive. A box-shaped car that we fill to the brim with boxes. Each day I’m home, my mom talks about my leaving. The anticipation of it—of my being across the country—bears down on the time we have together, now. “When will you come home? Thanksgiving?” “Probably not.
Excerpt From Fugitive Assemblage
Coast Ranges, Peninsular Ranges. Motel 6, Santa Maria. Directly west of Death Valley. I’d been driving six hours but awake for days. Vibrating beds. Denny’s next door. An unsettled stomach and the smell. Stale cigarettes. Rainbow brown bedspread, mustard yellow carpet. I closed the blackout curtain. It was noon and all I wanted was sleep. And, of all other, melancholy persona are most subject to diabolical temptations and illusions Great Central Valley. I was experiencing a weakness of spirit.
The Birds: Pathway: Wrenday 2020
1. A common raven Corvus corax high overhead. Not so common, and beneath, where I stand only A window a mirror But no blood. Are you listening? This essay is a call to your imagination and desire to be free. Freedom is a word and something else. 2.
Fiction Archives | The Offing
He would have nothing to do with death. He didn’t even believe in such a thing. I wish you were there, author of my predicament. Then you might have understood. Fuchsia Pukash was not beloved among the humans of the neighborhood, and they were right to dislike her. Unlike most mothers, I gave birth to my daughter Setsuko not once, but twice. The third time Paul died was in the middle of Maggie’s school musical Brave and smart and idiotic and trusting and head-of-fluff girls die. All the time.
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