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It’s here – our first anniversary issue, the Spring 2016 edition of Gyroscope Review. You may access this issue here. If you are viewing this from a smart phone or a tablet, then please go to our Issues tab for a PDF link. We’re excited and proud of our first year of publication. The poems that […]
One of the ongoing discussions in poetry is whether poems are accessible, a word that has become despised. But Billy Collins put it well in his introduction to 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (New York: Random House, 2005) when he wrote about how he chose poems for that anthology: ….a preference for…poems that […]
So, you are overcome with the urge to pen a poem. You were inspired by the sunrise, sunset, your last date, the neighbor’s new puppy, the snow, footprints in the sand, a romantic movie, or [fill in your favorite inspiration here]. Words flow, flowery, full of adjectives and adverbs. Alternatively, that last political debate got […]
GR: Thanks for agreeing to let us interview you for Gyroscope Review. We’re pleased that you are one of our contributing poets. Will you please begin by telling us where you’re from, where you write, and why poetry? ARF: A life-long Los Angeleno, I’ve lived all over L.A. county, including a childhood in the wilds […]