Calliope
Calliope is West Virginia University’s undergraduate literary journal. For more than 30 years, students at WVU have collaborated to create this award-winning journal, a showcase of the exemplary creative efforts of the student body. Submitting to Calliope is exclusive to WVU students, regardless of major, and historically has included works of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and artwork.
Current Volume: Volume 36 (2024)
Full Issue
Front Matter
Poetry
the way we call each other when someone dies
Emily Brannon
I left your flowers on your windowsill
Michael Duong
1-407-123-4567
Michael Duong
Paper and Pen
Nya Feinstein
your death and me
Norah Mayer
A Love Letter to West Virginia
Ava Mills
Shea Butter
Dayna Pratt
Extending a Hand to a Wounded Gazelle
Destinney Ringer
double wide dreamin’
Amiah Stewart
In ten years times
Amiah Stewart
Worn Shell
Sophia Weihman
Fine Figure of a Man
Reilly Wilcox
We Beseech You
Reilly Wilcox
O’ CHILDREN OF PALESTINE
Amina Wood
Fiction
As the Sea Caves In
Emma Bates
Sunlight Tucked into Jars
Emily Brannon
Nonfiction
The Slurpee Store
Emma Higgins
The Unconquerable
Marshall Sherman
Nowhere, USA
J. R. Sloan
Artwork
You Choose What To See
Pamela Reyes
Gray Matter Graveyard
Adrian Carrol
Washington Square Park
Declan Condon
Guess I’m the Fool
Tayler Pillo
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Hannah Nunley
- Assistant-Editor-in-Chief
- Mikaela Eackles
- Poetry Editors
- Garrett Collins and Ellis Walker
- Fiction Editors
- Mikaela Eackles and Abigail Stout
- Nonfiction Editor
- Colleen Benison
- Visual Arts Editors
- Garrett Collins and Cody Matorin
- Cover Art
- You Choose What To See by Pamela Reyes