Year: 2020
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Poet of the Day – Ashley Memory
National Poetry Month April 4, 2020 Ashley Memory Phalaenopsis For Becky My window is framed by a jabot of white blossoms each petal stained with drops of red-violet ink. People walking by gasp with delight or is it surprise that someone so silly and disorganized would own such a perfect thing? What…
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Poet of the Day – Candice Kelsey
National Poetry Month April 3, 2020 Candice Kelsey Megxit for Meghan Markle This poem is the press This line the Daily Mail This caesura – your father These letters your letter This stanza breaks Like the shutter Of a super telephoto lens And this alliteration Is afterthought arising Around Archie…
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Poet of the Day – Liz Jorgensen
National Poetry Month April 2, 2020 Liz Jorgensen My High School Students They look like sweatpants and sleep. They smell like gym, like Axe and dew. They taste of rebellion and sound of gossip and heartache. Yet when they graduate, they feel like people—like purpose, like pride. My High School Students appeared in…
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Poet of the Day – Gail Tyson
National Poetry Month April 1, 2020 Gail Tyson Darning the Wounded Tongue Half-dog, half-camel, with bottomless eyes, the creature kneels beside me like a sphinx. Erect, tall in a Queen Anne chair, I gaze ahead. Neither of us makes a sound. The creature kneels beside me in a pale room, silvery light casting…
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It’s Our Fifth Anniversary and We Have News
We have plenty of news to share with you today: the Gyroscope Review fifth anniversary, a stellar spring issue, and a change to our masthead. Gyroscope Review Celebrates Five Years of Publication The spring 2020 of Gyroscope Review marks five years of publishing this journal, collaborating to bring you voices from far and wide, and…
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A Poet, a Notebook, and a Pencil Walk into a Bar…
It’s closing in on that time again. National Poetry Month. Are you prepared? Lots of folks use the month to generate new work, doing the Poem A Day thing. There are prompts galore out there for those who want to give writing a poem every day a try. Sometimes you need a little bit more…