Year: 2023

  • Origin Stories – L. Shapley Bassen

    Origin Stories – L. Shapley Bassen

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    IRL by L. Shapley Bassen In Real Life, words, pauses, punctuation. Smells, perfume, memory is a scrim, a masking of movements, bowel and ballet. Autumn, age, are slow shock. Now, whether body can weather toxins? Ankle cramp? No acronyms suffice. Spell it out. Origin Stories – IRL This is a new poem, haven’t submitted anywhere…

  • Origin Stories – Howard Lieberman

    Origin Stories – Howard Lieberman

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    A Butterfly in Odessa by Howard Lieberman The medium suits her, and she sings; she sings as if absolutely alone, Surrounded by simulations of grief: desertion, denial, umbrella’d by umbrage, eyes aflame with a kindle of tears. What is that for which she really weeps: this futile place, that distant, venal State, that flat, fatiguing…

  • Origin Stories – Wanda Praisner

    Origin Stories – Wanda Praisner

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    Karakorum by Wanda S. Praisner That sunny dome! those caves of ice! S. T. Coleridge For social studies, I show my old slides of Mongolia. The five of us entering Ulan Bator’s Hotel B where flies blacken the breakfast but ignore the white yogurt. My family by the propeller plane on the sandy runway. A…

  • Spring 2023 Issue

    Spring 2023 Issue

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    The Spring 2023 Issue We welcome the Spring 2023 Issue of Gyroscope Review, along with National Poetry Month. There will be plenty of reading material, not just in the new issue, but from our talented poets as they provide the Origin Story of one of their poems. A new poet every day through April for…

  • A New Reading List

    A New Reading List

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    Let’s take a look at a new reading list. Back when we were reading for the Crone Issue, we asked what books our poets were reading – and not just poetry books, but any book, modern or classic. The results were surprising. So many books we’d never heard of, but after reading reviews, got added…

  • New Chapbook by Oisín Breen

    New Chapbook by Oisín Breen

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    We’d like to share the news of a new chapbook by Gyroscope Review poet Oisín Breen, Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems. Steeped in the tradition of Irish poetry, Oisín weaves his way through folklore and the natural world with evocative imagery. Introduction by Oisín I’ve never been the best at précis,…