Gyroscope Review is pleased to offer the following poems as our nominees for the Pushcart Prize. You can read all the poems on this page, although you might want to check out the back issues and see the other fine works contained in each issue. Every year it’s very difficult to limit ourselves to 6 poems out of the over 200 we publish. After a lot of reading and discussion, here are our nominees from…
National Poetry Month April 30, 2020 Karen George Frida Kahlo, Henry Ford Hospital (The Flying Bed), 1932 Frida, not everyone wants to see you unclothed on a hospital bed in the open air, industrial Detroit on the horizon, blood puddling beneath you. Clutched in your hand, long umbilical cords attached to floating objects: model of the female reproductive system, a snail, an orchid, your pelvis fractured in a bus accident when you were…
National Poetry Month April 29, 2020. Claire Rubin Wise Penelope Twenty years without hearth sitting, shawl weaving, sock sewing, without supervising servants so the roast pig is pleasing to the hoards of lascivious men swigging wine, pinching servants and waving cardboard swords Twenty years of adventures, the captain of her ship never falling for lotus flowers or the seductive voices of sirens no need for wax plugs in her ears but Poseidon saw…
National Poetry Month April 28, 2020 Susan Wismer The Babysitter I wanted to touch Mrs Quinn’s neck my hand, stubby, unsure, poised four years old I wanted to trace the round line of her collar the base of her throat rest, just for a moment my pointer finger on the cup of her bone, in the notch a slight flutter, wrinkled soft hollow on her rice papered skin a sketch of wrinkles,…
