Year: 2018

  • Telling Little Stories

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                      Now it’s time for another pass through your poem, the final pass if you’re confident, one of many final passes if you’re an incessant tinkerer. (Not that I would know anything about that ….) If you find yourself skimming through the poem, or feel sick of…

  • Graduate From Unpublished to Published Poet

    Graduate From Unpublished to Published Poet

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    One of the hardest jobs an editor has to do is say no to the majority of submissions that cross their desk. Yes, that’s right: the majority.  There are a lot of reasons for this, many of which we include in our responses to hopeful poets whose work we decline: poem is not in a…

  • Our Parents/Ourselves

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    Considering it is just after Mother’s Day, with Father’s Day looming on the horizon, I thought I’d talk about writing poems about parents. We get a lot of those type of poems at Gyroscope Review. It’s an important topic as poets work through their feelings about parents and the past – and sometimes the future.…

  • Proletarian Poets for May Day

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    Today is May Day, an international spring holiday in the Northern Hemisphere. People dance around May poles, leave baskets of flowers on doors, generally celebrate the return of warm weather. There has been plenty of poetry about spring, flowers, the giddiness of the season after a long winter. And those are poems that we all…

  • National Poetry Month Interview Series: Interview with Poet Jacqueline Jules

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    Each day in April, in honor of National Poetry Month and our third anniversary issue (find out how to get a copy HERE), we are running an interview with a poet who has been published in Gyroscope Review. With this interview, we wrap up our series and thank our participating poets. And we thank you,…

  • National Poetry Month Interview Series: Interview with Poet Kate Bernadette Benedict

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    Each day in April, in honor of National Poetry Month and our third anniversary issue (find out how to get a copy HERE), we are running an interview with a poet who has been published in Gyroscope Review. Read on. National Poetry Month Interview Series: Interview with Poet Kate Bernadette Benedict How will you celebrate…