Tag: poetry community
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Poet of the Day – Nate Maxson
National Poetry Month April 5, 2020 Nate Maxson Map Of Isola Di Pantelleria (Half Sung) A temporary coagulation: wind land This desire for the near zero, horizonal: Riehman’s zeta function No grasp of the temporal but to swim Moving towards it but never arriving The giardino pantesco: old stone, obsidian cairns ringed over single…
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Poet of the Day – Ashley Memory
National Poetry Month April 4, 2020 Ashley Memory Phalaenopsis For Becky My window is framed by a jabot of white blossoms each petal stained with drops of red-violet ink. People walking by gasp with delight or is it surprise that someone so silly and disorganized would own such a perfect thing? What…
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Poet of the Day – Candice Kelsey
National Poetry Month April 3, 2020 Candice Kelsey Megxit for Meghan Markle This poem is the press This line the Daily Mail This caesura – your father These letters your letter This stanza breaks Like the shutter Of a super telephoto lens And this alliteration Is afterthought arising Around Archie…
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Poet of the Day – Liz Jorgensen
National Poetry Month April 2, 2020 Liz Jorgensen My High School Students They look like sweatpants and sleep. They smell like gym, like Axe and dew. They taste of rebellion and sound of gossip and heartache. Yet when they graduate, they feel like people—like purpose, like pride. My High School Students appeared in…
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Poet of the Day – Gail Tyson
National Poetry Month April 1, 2020 Gail Tyson Darning the Wounded Tongue Half-dog, half-camel, with bottomless eyes, the creature kneels beside me like a sphinx. Erect, tall in a Queen Anne chair, I gaze ahead. Neither of us makes a sound. The creature kneels beside me in a pale room, silvery light casting…
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About Poetry Resources
Last week on our Instagram account (@gyroscopereview), we ran a series of helpful resource books for poets that people seemed to like quite a lot. We’ve also noticed that writers love blogs that publish interviews with editors – we see them shared around Facebook all the time. Facebook, by the way, offers multiple groups that…
