“There are two things I especially enjoy about Carmen’s poetry: one is the sort of spiritual/magical essence of her poems, and two is that her poems often feel very important—life and death important.”
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“Calatayud’s poetry is beautiful, fierce and unapologetic…….writing about loss, death, displacement and addiction is not always easy, but she does so with empathy and open mindedness to remedy hard truths that resist being revealed.”