Callista Buchen

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Poems

  • “Pretend.” DMQ Review ( September 2019).
  • “Sadness.” Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (August 2019).
  • “Borderland.” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact ( July 2019)
  • “Apparition.” Indianapolis Review (summer 2019).
  • “Swaddle.” Indianapolis Review (summer 2019).
  • “Memory As Flight” Rogue Agent (June 2019).
  • “Taking Care.” Thrush (May 2019).
  • “Milk Drunk.” Mom Egg Review (April 2019).
  • “Release.” Mom Egg Review (April 2019).
  • “On Describing.” BOAAT (Spring 2019).
  • “Onward.” Josephine Quarterly (October 2018).
  • “Tornado.” Baltimore Review (October 2017).
  • “Remains.” Cleaver (September 2017).
  • “The Virtues of Cement.” Public Pool (Summer 2017)
  • “Quick Change.” The Offing: July 2017.
  • “Remains.” Juked: June 2017.
  • “Figure.” Thrush: September 2016.
  • “Remnants.” Salt Hill: Spring 2016.
  • “Curb.” TAB: March 2016.
  • “Mantra.” Handsome: April 2016.
  • “Birth Right.” Paper Nautilus: December 2015.
  • “Slow Motion.” Paper Nautilus: December 2015.
  • “From Nothing.” Cimarron Review: August 2015.
  • “The Center.” Parcel: Summer 2015.
  • “Ether.” Stirring 17.7: July 2015.
  • “Road Construction.” Tinderbox Poetry 2.1: Summer 2015.
  • “Luna.” Tinderbox Review 2.1: Summer 2015.
  • “First, the Ears.” decomP: 2015.
  • “On Mercury.” Salamander 40: Spring 2015.
  • “Regeneration.” Puerto del Sol 50.2: Spring 2015.
  • “Piece of Rough.” Whiskey Island Review 65: 2015
  • “The Vault.” Whiskey Island Review 65: 2015
  • “To Hide.” Harpur Palate 14.2: Winter /Spring 2015.
  • “Growing Season.” Atticus Review: December 2014.
  • “Lost.” Atticus Review: December 2014.
  • “Slip.” Blue Earth Review 13: Fall 214. Nominated for Pushcart Prize.
  • “Fishing.” Menacing Hedge: October 2014.
  • “Kansas.” Menacing Hedge: October 2014.
  • “Rain.” Menacing Hedge: October 2014.
  • “After.” Literary Mama: October 2014.
  • “Remains.” Alice Blue Review: October 2014.
  • “Earth Science.” Arsenic Lobster 31: Spring 2013.
  • “Rounded by Water.” Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, and Prose 19: Winter 2013.
  • “Bluebird.” Blue Mesa Review: December 2012.
  • “Blueprints and Breach.” Seveneightfive: Fall 2012.
  • “Blueprints and Breach.” Prick of the Spindle: 6.3.
  • “Shine.” Baltimore Review: Summer 2012.
  • “On the Vine.” Pear Noir!: Summer 2012.
  • “The Sleep of Marriage.” Pear Noir!: Summer 2012.
  • “Medium.” Pear Noir!: Summer 2012.
  • “Witness.” (audio) Red Lightbulbs: April 2012.
  • “On Saturn.” Thrush: February 2012.
  • “Coherence.” PANK: May 2011.
  • “Becoming.” A Cappella Zoo 6: Spring 2011.
  • “Masterwork.” >kill author 10: 2011.
  • “On Planet Uranus.” >kill author 10: 2011.
  • “On Venus.” >kill author 10: 2011.
  • “Map of Heesakker Park and Woods, Little Chute, Wisconsin.” Emprise Review: September 2010. Nominated for Pushcart Prize.
  • “Nocturne.” jmww: Summer 2010.
  • “Rather Than These.” Gigantic: June 2010.
  • “Ode to Competitive Scrabble Players.” Gargoyle 56: June 2010.
  • “Nocturne #5.” elimae: June 2010.
  • “Better Lived.” Bellevue Review: Spring 2010.
  • “I Think I Might be Paranoid.” Bellevue Review: Spring 2010.
  • “All winter we say we must take down the robin’s nest.” Willow Review: April 2010.
  • “Deciding not to have children.” The New Formalist: April 2010.
  • “Wedding Shoes.” The Pennsylvania Review: 2009.

COLLABORATIVE POEMS

  • “Archeology as Prayer.” Heavy Feather Review.
  • “Garden as List.” Inflectionist Review 6: Spring 2017.
  • “Terrain as Disguise.” Inflectionist Review 6: Spring 2017.
  • “Cloud as Chaos.” Inflectionist Review 6: Spring 2017.
  • “Machine as Renga.” Inflectionist Review 6: Spring 2017.
  • “Graft and Yield.” TAB: Winter 2016.
  • “Grief as Instruction.” Poetry South: Winter 2016.
  • “Fire as Fragment.” Tahoma Literary Review: December 2016.
  • “Hunger as Letter.” Janus Head Review: February 2016.
  • “Nightmare as Reverse.” Janus Head Review: February 2016.
  • “Skin as Translation.” Heron Tree: Spring 2015.
  • “Lake as Elegy.” Spiral Orb 9: Fall 2014.
  • “Forest as Story.” Stone Highway Review 4.1: Fall 2014.
  • “Eyes as Shield.” Stone Highway Review 4.1: Fall 2014.
  • “Alphabet as Market.” Stone Highway Review 4.1: Fall 2014.
  • “Building as Cradle.” Boaat 1: August 2014.
  • “Flight as Conversation.” Boaat 1: August 2014.
  • “Shape as Echo.” Boaat 1: August 2014.

PROSE

  • “Belly Sea.” DIAGRAM: April 2013. Winner of DIAGRAM’s essay prize.
  • “Night.” Black Heart Magazine: November 2010.
  • “Tomatoes, Hope, and Something Delicious.” Connotation Press: September 2010.
  • “Sea Lion Caves.” Staccato Fiction: June 2010.

REVIEWS

  • Review of Pretty Tilt by Carrie Murphy. H_NGM_N: Spring 2014.
  • Review of Finding My Elegy by Ursula Le Guin. Cerise Review: Fall 2013.
  • Review of Tales of a Severed Head By Rachida Madani, translated by Marilyn Hacker. The Literary Review: Fall 2013.
  • Review of Y by Leslie Adrienne Miller. The Literary Review: Fall 2012.
  • Review of Bedful of Nebraskas by Jill Osier. The Literary Review: Fall 2012.
  • Review of Settlement by Micah Lang. The Literary Review: Fall 2012.
  • Review of Under the Gum Tree. The Review Review: Fall 2012.
  • Review of Versal 10. The Review Review: Summer 2012.
  • Review of Present Tense by Anna Prick of the Spindle: Spring 2012.
  • Review of The Local World by Mira Rosenthal. The Literary Review: Winter 2012.
  • Review of Monkey Bars by Matthew Lippman. The Literary Review: Fall 2011.
  • Review of Late in the Antenna Fields by Alan Gilbert. The Literary Review: Spring 2011.
  • Review of You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know by John Bradley. Mid-American Review: Winter 2011.
  • Review of Mister Skylight by Ed Skoog. Mid-American Review: Winter 2011.
  • Review of Security by Linda Sienkiewicz. Prick of the Spindle 4.4: Winter 2011.
  • Review of Big Bright Sun by Nate Pritts. jmww: Fall 2010.
  • Review of Tourist at a Miracle by Mark Statman. Prick of the Spindle 4.3: Fall 2010.
  • Review of From Old Notebooks by Evan Lavender-Smith. Prick of the Spindle 4.3: Fall 2010.
  • Review of Cool Auditor by Ray Gonzalez. Mid-American Review: Spring 2010.
  • Review of Late News from the Wilderness by Elinor Benedict. Mid-American Review: Spring 2010.
  • Review of Flinch of Song by Jennifer Militello. Mid-American Review: Spring 2010.
  • Review of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl by Karyna McGlynn. The Collagist: April 2010.
  • Review of MS of my Kin by Janet Holmes. Mid-American Review: 2009.

About Callista Buchen

Callista Buchen is the author of the full-length collection Look Look Look (Black Lawrence Press, October 2019), poetry chapbooks The Bloody Planet (Black Lawrence Press, October 2015) and Double-Mouthed (dancing girl press, April 2016).

She lives and writes in Wisconsin, where she lives with her family.
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