Tag: poetry

  • Poet of the Day – Candice Kelsey

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    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…

  • Poet of the Day – Liz Jorgensen

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    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…

  • Looking for a Few Good Revision Tips?

    Looking for a Few Good Revision Tips?

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    Today’s blog post is brought to you by our Assistant Editor, Joshua Colwell. You’ve just written a poem. It might be the best poem you’ve ever written. It has imagery, voice, theme, all the right line breaks. You might think you don’t need to revise, but here are some tips on what to do before…

  • Announcing our Winter 2019 Issue

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    We are pleased to offer you the latest issue of Gyroscope Review, a collection of poetry to get you through the rest of the winter. Thirty-eight poets share their sharp, elegant snapshots of wintery landscapes, cozy spaces, important relationships, and those ordinary moments that unexpectedly shift our vision. We offer both print and Kindle editions available…

  • Poetry Book Review: A Morsel of Bread, A Knife by Roberta P. Feins

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        A Morsel of Bread, A Knife by Roberta P. Feins Center on Contemporary Art Occasional Monograph Series 84 pp., $18.00   Of all the topics poets tackle, the topic of the mother-daughter relationship ranks high on the scale of interest. Writers endlessly probe memories, conversations, events, inherited traits and objects, rights of passage.…

  • Interview with Poet Tricia Knoll

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    As we celebrate older women poets with our special Crone Issue that was released on October first, we thought it important to ask one of our contributing poets to share her wisdom in an interview. We chose to interview Tricia Knoll because she has appeared in our pages in past issues and contributed three pieces…