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In honor of National Poetry Month, Gyroscope Review solicited information on poetry books and chapbooks published within the last year from our friends on Facebook. What we wanted was to share as many links as we could to poetry that deserves to be read, savored, honored. Poets work hard. They don’t always get paid. And PR […]
It’s here – our first anniversary issue, the Spring 2016 edition of Gyroscope Review. You may access this issue here. If you are viewing this from a smart phone or a tablet, then please go to our Issues tab for a PDF link. We’re excited and proud of our first year of publication. The poems that […]
One of the ongoing discussions in poetry is whether poems are accessible, a word that has become despised. But Billy Collins put it well in his introduction to 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (New York: Random House, 2005) when he wrote about how he chose poems for that anthology: ….a preference for…poems that […]
So, you are overcome with the urge to pen a poem. You were inspired by the sunrise, sunset, your last date, the neighbor’s new puppy, the snow, footprints in the sand, a romantic movie, or [fill in your favorite inspiration here]. Words flow, flowery, full of adjectives and adverbs. Alternatively, that last political debate got […]