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A Butterfly in Odessa by Howard Lieberman The medium suits her, and she sings; she sings as if absolutely alone, Surrounded by simulations of grief: desertion, denial, umbrella’d by umbrage, eyes aflame with a kindle of tears. What is that for which she really weeps: this futile place, that distant, venal State, that flat, fatiguing […]
Karakorum by Wanda S. Praisner That sunny dome! those caves of ice! S. T. Coleridge For social studies, I show my old slides of Mongolia. The five of us entering Ulan Bator’s Hotel B where flies blacken the breakfast but ignore the white yogurt. My family by the propeller plane on the sandy runway. A […]
The Spring 2023 Issue We welcome the Spring 2023 Issue of Gyroscope Review, along with National Poetry Month. There will be plenty of reading material, not just in the new issue, but from our talented poets as they provide the Origin Story of one of their poems. A new poet every day through April for […]
Let’s take a look at a new reading list. Back when we were reading for the Crone Issue, we asked what books our poets were reading – and not just poetry books, but any book, modern or classic. The results were surprising. So many books we’d never heard of, but after reading reviews, got added […]
