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What happens when two poets get their knees replaced? They make poetry a joint effort! Watch poets cin salach and Emily Calvo share the ups and downs of getting replacement parts. (Video by Joe Velez 2025)
Emily Calvo joins poets Nikki Giovanni and Jordan Holmes to discuss the art and poems included in the book, Standing in the Need of Prayer, a collection of poems about the vulnerability of black males. The book is dedicated to their mothers. Sponsored by the Guild Literary Complex.
Emily reads Why I Love Old Men at SPACE in Evanston Illinois. 2024
Emily reads a chapter from her memoir at Volumes Books in Chicago, Illinois. 2024
Emily reads "When My Phone Trembles" from Standing in the Need of Prayer by Nikki Giovanni. In 2022, Calvo collaborated with a notable poet to create the book. (Video by Joe Velez 2025)
On a cold Sunday in 2018, Calvo reads to fans of music and poetry at the Church of Beethoven in Oak, Park, IL.
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