Author: Constance Brewer

  • Book Review – Household Gods by Bonnie Proudfoot

    Book Review – Household Gods by Bonnie Proudfoot

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    Bonnie Proudfoot’s new chapbook Household Gods weaves its way through the intricacies of what it means to be family, and also to be the one left to look back and try to make sense of it all. The past is never as far away as we’d sometimes like it to be. Fathers, mothers, aunts, brothers,…

  • Fall 2022 Crone Power Issue

    Fall 2022 Crone Power Issue

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    The Fall 2022 Crone Power Issue of Gyroscope Review is a special issue, dedicated to women identifying poets over the age of 50. We feel this demographic is often overlooked as a source of power and inspiration in poetry, and we love to give voice to these unique poets. Their words come from the heart.…

  • 4 Ways to Jump Start Your Poetry

    4 Ways to Jump Start Your Poetry

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    4 Ways to Jump Start Your Poetry: Imagine you’re driving on an unknown dirt road and come to a five-way stop. (work with me here) Not using a GPS, or a map, you need to make a decision on which way to go. You know where you’ve been. Excitement rises at the possibilities. Each direction…

  • Summer 2022 Issue

    Summer 2022 Issue

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    We welcome the Summer 2022 Issue of Gyroscope Review to our lineup. This issue is chock full of wonderful poetry by a diverse group of established and emerging poets including— Jay Aja, Tobi Alfier, DeAnna Beachley, Marjorie Becker, Jean Biegun, CL Bledsoe, James Bohen, Nancy Botkin, Oisin Breen, Rohan Buettel, Susan Cossette, John M. Davis,…

  • You Do You

    You Do You

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    No matter what the circumstances, you do you. Almost all Lit mags tell you to read past issues to get a feel for what they want. That’s mostly true. There’s a pattern there, sometimes subconscious, of what the editors are attracted to in a poem. We all have our likes and dislikes, our biases, and…

  • Spring 2022 Issue

    Spring 2022 Issue

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    Welcome the Spring 2022 Issue of Gyroscope Review! We’re so glad you’re here. Join us in welcoming our Seventh Anniversary Issue of Gyroscope Review with outstanding work by the following poets: Testimony Akinkunmi, Susan Barry-Schulz, Stuart Bartow, Lois Bassen, Lisa Bledsoe, Lavina Blossom, Dorothy Brooks, Mary Lou Buschi, Wendy Carlisle, Noah Cohen-Greenberg, David Colodney, John…