fine poetry to turn your world around
A Brief History of Wetzel County – by Bonnie ProudfootHere is a hill, a trail,shale rocks crumble into earthwhen I step on them,canes of multiflora rose tugmy legs, arms, neck, face. Herefog hugs the valleys,autumn sun dips behindthe ridgeline before 3:00,stumps of chestnut treesare wider than anyliving trees, squirrelshide in oak branches.Here Lewis Wetzel, bornin […]
Gyroscope Review is celebrating National Poetry Month with a Poem Renaissance, a review of previously published poems looking for new life and new views. Every day through May 20th, a new poem to fall in love with all over again. Elegy for Dewey Stoneby Bonnie ProudfootLast May, Dewey died from diabetes after a slide into […]
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, […]
