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 retired 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 poems have been 
published frequently in local and small-press entities (such as the flash fiction magazine “Cease, Cows,” 
and Small Print Magazine), as well as in anthologies Including “Through a Distant Lens,” "Bullies and 
Bystanders: Changing Harm to Harmony," and “Pandemic Puzzle Poems.”