Year: 2017
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Wrap This Up, Too: Looking Back at 2017
We are now at the end of our first year of offering a print edition of Gyroscope Review and we thought, hey, let’s look at those numbers hanging out in our Submittable account. Just how many submissions did we get in 2017? The answer: 1,854 submissions from 559 poets arrived on our virtual doorstep during the…
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Book Review: Daphne and her Discontents
Book Review Daphne and her Discontents by Jane Rosenberg LaForge Published by Ravenna Press 2017 Jane Rosenberg LaForge’s new book Daphne and her Discontents delves into Greek mythology to explore the trials of Daphne and her relationship to LaForge’s own life. One of the first poems in the book, Family Business, chronicles LaForge’s childhood as part of a family of…
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Wrap This Up: The 2017 Issues
We are pleased to announce that we have assembled all of our 2017 issues of Gyroscope Review in one place. Wrap This Up: The 2017 Issues is available now on Amazon as either a print version ($20 plus shipping; free shipping with Amazon Prime) or a Kindle version ($9.99). We are proud of our 2017 contributing…
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Villanelle – A Racy Import With An Interesting Form
If you’re a sucker for poetic homework, expand your horizons by working on a villanelle. A villanelle is only 19 lines long, but has a strict form. The lines can be of any length, contain five tercets and a quatrain in the last stanza. The rhyme scheme is aba with the same end-rhyme for every…
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Book Review: The THIRD Voice by Eric Greinke
A Gyroscope Review Review: The THIRD VOICE: Notes on the Art of Poetic Collaboration by Eric Greinke Presa Press, 84 pages, $13.95 Date of Publication: November 1, 2017 If a poet has lost the joy of wordplay, I suggest that a lively collaboration may be the antidote. -Eric Greinke Did you ever sit at the…
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM GYROSCOPE REVIEW
Trick or treat! Give us something good to….read! Click on the links below to find a cauldron full of Halloween goodies. Halloween Poems from the Academy of American Poets Halloween Poems from the Poetry Foundation It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown on ABC.com (contains ads!) Some out-of-this-world pumpkin carving from Villafane…
