Poems
“Calderwood’s poems are both private yet accessible, direct yet elegant, and achingly empathetic.”
Most of the poems listed below are collected in The God of Longing; poems that did not appear in that collection are noted with an asterisk.
Journals & Magazines:
“Elegy.” The Innisfree Poetry Journal
“Nocturne.” Locuspoint
“Evening Commute.”* Limp Wrist
“Fault Zone.” PoetsArtists
“Catalogue.” The Squaw Valley Review
“The Golden Hour.” AQLF Broadside Contest
“Ballad of the Kind Young Men.” Art & Understanding
“Aubades.” Slow Trains
“The Way We Walk.” Slow Trains
“Mother.”* Slow Trains
“Disclosure.” Art & Understanding
“Stay Little Valentine Stay.” PoetsArtists
“Two Photographs.” PoetsArtists
“We Return Our Squandered Bodies to Their Separate Rooms.” PoetsArtists
“Ten Ways of Looking at an Appendix Scar.”* Art & Understanding
“Anal Bleaching Is All the Rage.” Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
“Facture.” The Innisfree Poetry Journal
“Man Friday.” GuyWriters Magazine:
“Song.” American Poetry Journal
“Evolution.” Black Robert Journal
“Headless Men.” Bloom
“Gretel Remembers.” Crab Creek Review
“Abecedarius.” Gertrude
“In the Hall of Primitive Mammals.” Knockout
“Larry.”* Modern Words
“Sarah Palin’s Ride.”* Poetry24
“Your Eyes.”* Tawdry Bawdry
“Persimmons.”* Cherry Blossom Review
“Pandora.”* Chabot Review
“Sestina for Spring.”* Modern Words
“Veritas Premitur Non Opprimitur.”* Chabot Review
Anthologies:
Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poems from the Community of Writers. “Abecedarius”
The Dead Animal Handbook (eds. Cam Awkward-Rich and Sam Sax). “Rain”
Poets Eleven: San Francisco Poets (ed, Jack Hirschman). “Unicorn”* “Goat Rock” “Thaw”
The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. V: Georgia. “Rain” “Nocturne”
Mother Mary Comes to Me: A Pop Culture Anthology. “Mary’s Confession”*
Art & Understanding: Literature from the First Twenty Years of A&U. “Disclosure”
Solace in So Many Words. “Veritas Premitur Non Opprimitur”*
The Body Electric. “Intermission”
Divining Divas. “Twister”*