fine poetry to turn your world around
Bless me oh poetry gods, for I have sinned. I gave my poem a boring, abstract title that even made me lose interest in it. How many poems have you seen with a title like ‘Love’, ‘Justice’, or ‘Morning’? Your brain is left scrambling even before you dive into the poem. It may set up […]
The fantastic Fall 2021 Crone Power Issue of Gyroscope Review is here in all its fabulous glory! You don’t want to miss this issue, chock full of incredible poems by incredible crones. The poets included: Eleanor Altman, Lisa Ashley, Ellen Austin-Li, Carol Berg, Gabriella Brand, Mary Bruce, Wendy Carlisle, Lisa Charnock, Joanne Clarkson, Mary Crow, […]
by Elya Braden, Assistant Editor While many of us have been to enough poetry workshops over the years to assemble a notebook or, in my case, several notebooks of poetry prompts, one trick I’ve especially enjoyed from one of my favorite writing teachers, Tresha Faye Haefner, creator of The Poetry Salon, is that of creating […]
Revising your poetry. You’ve got a notebook (computer) full of finished poems and wonder “What comes next?” Do you slap the results in an email and rush to submit them far and wide? Or do you carefully revise your work, and create the strongest poems possible? Revising poetry is the way to go, more so […]
