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Book Review – Billy Collins “Ballistics” Ballistics by Billy Collins Random House 2008 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6491-5 An interesting book of poetry from former poet laureate Billy Collins (2001-2003) is titled “Ballistics”, perhaps as a warning to the reader that a careful analysis is in order. Wikipedia defines ballistics as “the science of mechanics […]
Mothers. Everyone has one somewhere. So we hope you celebrate yours, or celebrate you if you are a mother, this Sunday. And here, for your poetry pleasure, is a sampling of some of the poems we’ve published that offer pieces of what mothers do, feel, long for, and mean. None of these are traditional celebrations of motherhood, […]
And now, for round two in our Book Links Party in honor of National Poetry Month. We offer you these titles: NEW BOOK LINK! Kai Coggin, Wingspan. Paperback, $17.00, published by Golden Dragonfly Press, available at www.kaicoggin.com. Tina Cole, I Almost Knew You. Paperback, 48 pages, and Kindle edition, $8.60/$7.00 respectively, available on Amazon.com. Iris Jamahl Dunkle, There’s a […]
In honor of National Poetry Month, Gyroscope Review solicited information on poetry books and chapbooks published within the last year from our friends on Facebook. What we wanted was to share as many links as we could to poetry that deserves to be read, savored, honored. Poets work hard. They don’t always get paid. And PR […]