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Book Review Daphne and her Discontents by Jane Rosenberg LaForge Published by Ravenna Press 2017 Jane Rosenberg LaForge’s new book Daphne and her Discontents delves into Greek mythology to explore the trials of Daphne and her relationship to LaForge’s own life. One of the first poems in the book, Family Business, chronicles LaForge’s childhood as part of a family of […]
We are pleased to announce that we have assembled all of our 2017 issues of Gyroscope Review in one place. Wrap This Up: The 2017 Issues is available now on Amazon as either a print version ($20 plus shipping; free shipping with Amazon Prime) or a Kindle version ($9.99). We are proud of our 2017 contributing […]
If you’re a sucker for poetic homework, expand your horizons by working on a villanelle. A villanelle is only 19 lines long, but has a strict form. The lines can be of any length, contain five tercets and a quatrain in the last stanza. The rhyme scheme is aba with the same end-rhyme for every […]
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 […]