Tag: poetry

  • Our Fall 2018 Crone Issue Celebrates Women Poets Over 50

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    We welcome you to explore our special fall 2018 issue of Gyroscope Review: The Crone Issue. This highly-anticipated issue surprised us by eliciting an intense response from poets who sent work for our consideration. We are so grateful to have opened our doors for a demographic that is too often pushed aside even as they…

  • Graduate From Unpublished to Published Poet

    Graduate From Unpublished to Published Poet

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    One of the hardest jobs an editor has to do is say no to the majority of submissions that cross their desk. Yes, that’s right: the majority.  There are a lot of reasons for this, many of which we include in our responses to hopeful poets whose work we decline: poem is not in a…

  • Wild Places for Wild Poets

    Wild Places for Wild Poets

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    Today is the anniversary of the creation of Yellowstone National Park. Established on March 1, 1872, Yellowstone was the first national park in the world, a place set aside as a public park…for the benefit and enjoyment of the people (wording from The Yellowstone National Park Protection Act). In thinking about this place, a place…

  • Book Review: The THIRD Voice by Eric Greinke

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    A Gyroscope Review Review: The THIRD VOICE: Notes on the Art of Poetic Collaboration by Eric Greinke Presa Press, 84 pages, $13.95 Date of Publication: November 1, 2017 If a poet has lost the joy of wordplay, I suggest that a lively collaboration may be the antidote. -Eric Greinke Did you ever sit at the…

  • Welcome to Gyroscope Review Issue 17-4

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    We did it again! Another issue completed and it’s beautiful. Our cover shot this time is of St. Paul, Minnesota, bathed in hazy golden light late on a September afternoon. Editor Kathleen Cassen Mickelson lives in the Twin Cities and is delighted that co-editor Constance Brewer, who lives in Wyoming, liked the idea of using…

  • Interview with Poet Lyndi Bell O’Laughlin

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    GR: Thanks for agreeing to let us interview you for Gyroscope Review. We’re pleased that you are one of our contributing poets. Will you please begin by telling us where you’re from, where you write, and why poetry? LBO: Thank you for including me in Gyroscope Review’s author interview series. I grew up in California.…