Tag: poetry books
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Duets Review by Robert Kostuck
Duets, a collection of paired ekphrastic poems by Cynthia Atkins and Alexis Rhone Fancher inspired by photos by Alexis Rhone Fancher, will transfix and transport you.
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Interview with Poet Marc Alan Di Martino
GR: Marc Alan Di Martino , thanks for agreeing to let us interview you for Gyroscope Review. We’re happy you’re one of our contributing poets. Will you please begin by telling us where you are from, what you write, and why poetry? MDM: I’m originally from Maryland, though I spent my twenties in New York…
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Living in Laconia by Ruth Holzer
Gyroscope Press is proud to present Living in Laconia, a chapbook by Ruth Holzer. Praise for Living in Laconia: In his Figures of Thought, our late poet laureate Howard Nemerov paraphrases Mark Twain: “The difference between the right word and the exactly right word is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” In…
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Book Review – The Only Light Coming In by Joseph Hardy
Joseph Hardy’s poetry book The Only Light Coming In is a volume filled with reflections on relationships, some good, some bad, some still a mystery to the author. Hardy spends time to do introspection on the past in a way we are all familiar with, joys, regrets, and searing moments we’ll never be able to…
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Book Review – Arclight by John Biscello
Arclight, by poet John Biscello, is an intriguing book brimming with possibilities. The book is divided into six diverse sections that carry themes through each section and tie them together with spirituality and attention to the relationships between people and creator, people and others, people and self. I enjoyed the mix of short little poems…
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Blackbird: Poems by Laura Grace Weldon – A Review
Blackbird: Poems by Laura Grace Weldon (West Hartford, CT: Grayson Books, 2019) $15.95 The first time I read Laura Grace Weldon’s latest book of poems, Blackbird, I gulped it down all at once like a starved reader. I kept finding poems to fall in love with, lines that made me say, oh, wow, me too.…
