Welcome to National Poetry Month and Gyroscope Review’s month-long celebration of poets – and their diverse Writing Assistants. Enjoy the audio/video works by previous Gyroscope Review poets and be sure to check out the Author and fun Writing Assistant Bio at the end of each NPM poet post. Don’t forget to tag the poet on Social Media and let them know you enjoyed their work!
The Wind, the Lake, the Deer
The Wind, the Lake, the Deer What is wind? the way it spends itself against the house, sleeps briefly like a child in fever, then wakes afraid and unintelligible, when it wants to be more than a barren woman raking the lake into fits of momentary white. I dreamt of scarves in turquoise and fuchsia that said here, here is joy in focus, and wakened later to you coming inside from the morning's blue chill to say that deer ate the red tulips in the dark while we slept. First published in Many Mountains Moving
WRITING ASSISTANT BIO
Rollo was born with a bunch of siblings in Nebraska but he loves living in Colorado with his adoptive parents. Lisa takes him off leash where he gets to chase a ball, smell everything everywhere and meet other dogs. He howls whenever an ambulance goes by. His howl is a kind of elegy.
AUTHOR BIO
Lisa Zimmerman’s poetry collections include How the Garden Looks from Here (Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award winner) The Light at the Edge of Everything (Anhinga Press) and Sainted (Main Street Rag). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Redbook, The Sun, SWWIM Every Day, Cave Wall, Poet Lore, Vox Populi, Cultural Daily, and many other journals. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net, five times for the Pushcart Prize, and included in the 2020 Best Small Fictions anthology. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Northern Colorado.
Don’t forget to read the Spring 2024 Issue of Gyroscope Review.
NPM 2024 Poets
April 1 – Cal Freeman
April 2 – Susanna Lang
April 3 – Marion Brown
April 4 – Melissa Huff
April 5 – Elaine Sorrentino
April 6 – Alison Stone
April 7 – Alexandra Fössinger
April 8 – Laurie Kuntz
April 9 – Dick Westheimer
April 10 – Wendy McVicker
April 11 – J.I. Kleinberg
April 12 – Ellen Austin-Li
April 13 – D. Dina Friedman
April 14 – Connie Post
April 15 – Georgina Key
April 16 – Judith McKenzie
April 17 – Jacqueline Jules
April 18 – Amanda Hayden
April 19 – Lisa Zimmerman