Barbara Baldwin, In Memoriam
Barbara Baldwin, In Memoriam

On May 5, 2017, Barbara Baldwin—poet and founding editor of CALYX—passed away. I didn’t have the privilege of knowing Barbara long enough, although I’d been hearing about her for years as a pillar of the Corvallis community. She was a patient at my father’s optometry clinic, and he would often come home and ask me

LEARN MORE
From the Desk of Margarita Donnelly
From the Desk of Margarita Donnelly

The first time I sat at Margarita’s desk was the first time I began to appreciate what a true force of nature she was. It was late summer, and while Margarita had ostensibly been retired for a year and a half, she was everywhere in the office she had run for 35 years. A true

LEARN MORE