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Book Review – Kind Chemist Wife: Musings at 3:00 a.m.
Read more: Book Review – Kind Chemist Wife: Musings at 3:00 a.m.Kind Chemist Wife: Musings at 3:00 a.m. by Sarah Bigham is the kind of book that is worth repeated readings. What do you do at 3:00 a.m. when you are unable to sleep, and your mind whirls with the past, the present, the future? You write. Sarah’s poems in Kind Chemist Wife invites the reader…
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The Journal Jungle
Read more: The Journal JungleWith the various lockdowns going on, I’ve noticed an uptick in the number of posts recommending prisoners, err, people do some journaling. This is a good thing. A good idea. It is helpful to get those thoughts down on paper to look at in the future. Confession time. I don’t journal. At least not in…
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It’s Drafty in Here
Read more: It’s Drafty in HereNational Poetry Month is two weeks in the rear-view mirror. How did your April go? Did you accomplish all you wished? I have an awful lot of poem starts, one to four lines of the beginning of poems. I found I work quite effectively this way, getting the idea down then coming back at a…
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Throwing Your Heart into The Fire, or How to Win at the Publication Game by Elya Braden
Read more: Throwing Your Heart into The Fire, or How to Win at the Publication Game by Elya BradenNow that Gyroscope Review is open again for submissions, I’ve been thinking about rejections. As I read poem after poem, noting yes, no, or maybe, commenting online to the other editors and reading their comments, I’ve been thinking about the responsibility every editor has to the writers who are brave enough to risk rejection by…
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