Welcome to National Poetry Month and Gyroscope Review’s month-long celebration of poets – and their diverse Writing Assistants. Enjoy the audio/video works by previous Gyroscope Review poets and be sure to check out the Author and fun Writing Assistant Bio at the end of each NPM poet post. Don’t forget to tag the poet on Social Media and let them know you enjoyed their work!
The Strays of Incheon
The Strays of Incheon At 2 a.m. Korea time, my son roams the streets carrying treats for stray cats. They run to him weaving through his legs. He wanders before returning to his single room sewed into a slim alley crisscrossed by wires. It’s morning here when he calls, rants about the faults and obligations of his world. I stay quiet. I don’t know where he’s going but I’m sure he isn’t calling for directions. His city cools, sloughs off days of tramping feet and roaring motorbikes delivering bibimbap. He sends video of a cat the neighbors call Little Miss Flower. She darts from under a Hyundai plastered with emojis. Unattached, they meet between the streetlights, breathing the easy darkness. But couldn’t he do this someplace closer? Then I remember a similar distance, and how it opened a late-night knowledge that still comes running to me. Jane Edna Mohler Published in Gyroscope Review’s Crone Power Issue Fall 2023
WRITING ASSISTANT BIO
Fritz and Minerva take turns looking over my shoulder, in fact, they fight over the chair. Fritz likes brisk poems about birds. Minerva likes poems about food. They hate it when I write about other cats.
AUTHOR BIO
Jane Edna Mohler was 2020 Bucks County Poet Laureate, 2016 Winner of Main Street Voices, and placed second in the 2023 Crossroads Contest. Latest publications include Gargoyle, Gyroscope Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, and One Art. Her collection, Broken Umbrellas, was published by Kelsay. Jane is the Poetry Editor of the Schuylkill Valley Journal. www.janeednamohler.com
Don’t forget to read the Spring 2024 Issue of Gyroscope Review.
NPM 2024 Poets
April 1 – Cal Freeman
April 2 – Susanna Lang
April 3 – Marion Brown
April 4 – Melissa Huff
April 5 – Elaine Sorrentino
April 6 – Alison Stone
April 7 – Alexandra Fössinger
April 8 – Laurie Kuntz
April 9 – Dick Westheimer
April 10 – Wendy McVicker
April 11 – J.I. Kleinberg
April 12 – Ellen Austin-Li
April 13 – D. Dina Friedman
April 14 – Connie Post
April 15 – Georgina Key
April 16 – Judith McKenzie
April 17 – Jacqueline Jules
April 18 – Amanda Hayden
April 19 – Lisa Zimmerman
April 20 – Richard Jordan
April 21 – Beth Kanell
April 22 – Kari Gunter-Seymour
April 23 – Jane Edna Mohler