Author: Constance Brewer

  • Follow the Guidelines to Success

    Follow the Guidelines to Success

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    Guidelines. Follow the guidelines when you submit. They’re an important part of any literary magazine. You want to have your best shot at getting your work published, so read any guidelines carefully. We (meaning Gyroscope Review) didn’t make up frivolous guidelines. They were cultivated over time with a goal in mind—making the editor’s job easier.…

  • The Summer 21-3 Issue

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    The Summer 21-3 Issue of Gyroscope Review is ripe with lush poetry, filled with sunshine and a few thunderstorms for your summer months. Summer 2021 poets include: Alfred Fournier, Amy Moore, Antonietta Bocci, Beth Williams, Brandy McKenzie, Carol Edwards, Claudia Putnam, Connie Soper, David Dixon, Debbie Trantow, Diana Dinverno, Donna Hilbert, Ellen June Wright, Eric…

  • Methods of Creating Visual Poetry

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    Methods of creating visual poetry. It’s nice to have videos of you or others reading poems to pop on YouTube or other places. Maybe you want to up your game and create something a little different. Backgrounds with the words of your poems appearing in front of them. I found some videos that show you…

  • How to Organize Your Poetry into a Chapbook

    How to Organize Your Poetry into a Chapbook

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    It all sounds so easy. Write poetry. Organize your poetry into book format. Submit chapbook. Profit! Well, maybe not the last one. We all know how much poetry pays. Sometimes it’s tempting to fold poems into paper airplanes and send them out into the world. I favor the “tie a poem to a balloon and…

  • New Books From Gyroscope Press

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    In case you missed the new books from Gyroscope Press in the mad shuffle of National Poetry Month, here they are. Something Like a Life from Sally Zakariya, and How We Learned To Shut Our Own Mouths from Kathleen Cassen Mickelson. Find out more about them and read reviews on their Gyroscope Press pages. Sally…

  • Promopalooza – Cassie Premo Steele

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    Cassie Premo Steele Do you have an MP3 of you reading a poem? Send it along. Yes, thank you! This is a new poem called “Dear Audre, Mother.” Here’s the link to the audio: Video Your Chapbook or Book Title, Press, Where available for sale. My most recent poetry book is Tongues in Trees: poems…