Calvin Ahlgren began trying to write poetry as a boy in his native Tennessee, and never stopped. 
He migrated to the Left Coast in the mid-1960s, and counts himself a born-again Californian. He 
is a former print journalist who gardens, cooks and teaches healing qigong and Yang-style tai chi, 
and works at the craft and art of poodle-wrangling. His spasmodically submitted work has been 
published frequently in local and small-press magazines, as well as in anthologies such as 
“Through a Distant Lens,” the flash fiction magazine “Cease, Cows,” Small Print Magazine, the 
anthology "Bullies and Bystanders: Changing Harm to Harmony," 
the 2021 anthology “Pandemic Puzzle Poems.”