Category: Miscellaneous

  • Wrap This Up, Too: Looking Back at 2017

    Wrap This Up, Too: Looking Back at 2017

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    We are now at the end of our first year of offering a print edition of Gyroscope Review and we thought, hey, let’s look at those numbers hanging out in our Submittable account. Just how many submissions did we get in 2017? The answer: 1,854 submissions from 559 poets arrived on our virtual doorstep during the…

  • The Underground is Coming Up!

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    Here it is halfway through October and I’m still wondering where summer went. This year seems to have gone swiftly. But one thing Gyroscope Review is doing slowly is adding more options for our readers. Months ago, we were proud to roll out a print edition for those of you that prefer the hands on…

  • Heading into production

    Heading into production

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    Today marks the end of the reading period for our fall issue, which means the next two weeks will consume us with producing the next edition of Gyroscope Review. Thank you to everyone who has sent us work to consider. Now your editors have to kick it into high gear. As of the moment this post…

  • Irresistible, Seductive Bookstores and Why You Might Want a Print Copy of Gyroscope Review

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  • Free Verse Is Not a Free For All

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    Since today is Memorial Day, and Freedom is on my mind — “Free Verse Poetry, what’s that all about?” A question from a friend who is often bewildered by modern poetry in general. She likes reading it, but was raised in the grand tradition of Poetry That Rhymes. Don’t get me wrong, I love Shakespeare,…

  • The End of Another Reading Period

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    We hope everyone is getting into holiday mode! At Gyroscope Review, we are in get-the-lead-out mode as we go through the poems we’ve accepted for our January issue, organize files, create covers, write editorials, and, if we’re lucky, eat fudge. This just-completed reading period, which technically ends at midnight tonight, had over 350 poems submitted and…