Andrew J. Calis (Born November 27, 1987) is a Palestinian-American poet and teacher and the author of Pilgrimages (Wipf & Stock), published in 2020, and Which Seeds Will Grow? (Paraclete, 2024).
Calis has taught at Mount St. Mary's University, his alma mater, as well as West Virginia University, where he earned his MA in English, and at The Catholic University of America where he earned a Ph.D in 2019. He is an associate editor of two literary journals, Dappled Things[1] and Convivium.[2]
His poetry and essays have been published in The Atlantic[3], America[4], and he has been nominated for numerous awards including:
Kevin Robles has analyzed the fragmentary style of Calis's poetry, writing, "Every story, every anecdote, every line feels uncertain; or, to use Calis’s term, 'shattered,'"[7] and Sophia Feingold has written that "Calis’s is also the sort of writing that repays rereading."[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Masthead".
- ^ "About".
- ^ "Andrew Calis, the Atlantic". The Atlantic.
- ^ "Andrew Calis". 3 April 2020.
- ^ "Trying to Explain What Knafeh is by Andrew Calis | Poetry". 28 April 2023.
- ^ "Moved by that Miracle, Beauty – Fare Forward". 31 December 2021.
- ^ "When poetry meets spirituality". 8 April 2021.
- ^ "On Pilgrimage with a New Catholic Poet". 14 January 2021.