New Issue of Gyroscope Review

“A Day at the Beach”
by Constance Brewer
Whiteline Woodblock print
11 x 12.5 inches
Stonehenge paper
Daniel Smith watercolors 

The summer issue of Gyroscope Review is out! A perfect lazy-summer-day read. You can pick up a copy on Amazon. Please leave us a review after you’ve read through the awesome work by our summer poets. 

Submissions for the Fall Issue open today also. Last fall’s Crone Issue was so well-received that Gyroscope Review has decided to do it again. 

The Crone Power Issue. 

This time, there will not be regular submissions alongside the themed submissions. All submissions must be dedicated to the theme of what it is to identify as a woman over the age of 50 – the power, the satisfaction, the intricacies of being a woman over 50 in today’s society. 

Women poets over 50 remain an underrepresented group and we are here to say that must change. Those who identify as Women over 50, we want to hear from you. This is your issue. 

( We will return to regular poetry submissions for our Winter 2020 issue. )

Gyroscope Review - 2018 Year End Anthology

Groundhogs, Crones, & Other Poems.

Gyroscope Review's 2018 Year End Anthology is now available on Amazon! 

All 4 issues from 2018 in one convenient book.

374 pages of Poetic Goodness, just for you.

Let us know what you think - Leave a review on Amazon. 

Have a great Holiday Season!

Welcome to National Poetry Month

It's April, time for Poetry everywhere! To kick off your poetry month, we have a brand new issue of Gyroscope Review. This is our Third Anniversary, so naturally this is the Annoversary Issue - with a special theme of Threes.

Our Spring 2018 issue is the largest single issue we’ve ever produced. We are pretty proud of this big fat issue. You can purchase a print copy HERE, a Kindle version HERE, or find a free PDF version HERE. Three places to read us.

All funds from the purchase of print or Kindle editions helps fund Gyroscope Review‘s website and Submittable submissions system.

As an extra special bonus to National Poetry Month, Gyroscope Review is publishing an interview a day with 30 different poets. 30 chances to see what makes poets tick. Or twitch. Stop on by Gyroscope Review every day to read a fresh, new interview.

What will you be doing for National Poetry Month? A poem a day? Following poetry prompts? (Gyroscope Review offers a new poetry prompt every Sunday, on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.) Writing when the inspiration strikes? Reading your favorite, or a new poet? Let me know in the comments. We hope to see some creative well crafted poems from April in our slush. Go forth and create!

Now Available - Gyroscope Review Winter Issue

The first issue of 2018 of Gyroscope Review is now available, featuring a hand drawn cover done by me, Constance Brewer. Pen and ink drawings that were popped into the computer for some touch up and a few groundhog hole details. The Gyroscope groundhog wants you to go forth and protest for what you believe in, or at least come up for air and see what's going on around you. Take part, a little or a lot. Groundhogs don't judge.

Get your Gyroscope Review 2018 Winter issue today.

Print copies are available for purchase HERE.
Kindle copies are available for purchase HERE.
As always, our PDF version is available HERE.
 

Fragment Friday - The Poetry Edition

Welcome to National Poetry Month!

Our very first issue of Gyroscope Review is now available on the Joomag Newstand.

You can find it here: Issue 15-1.

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Need a different version? PDF 15-1 for mobile devices.

 and now on to the rest of the fragments...

2.  Confession time - I don't write poetry every day. And you know what? I'm okay with that. I figured out I run in spurts. I can write 8 poems over the course of a week, and spend the next four weeks polishing and refining them. That's what works for me. YMMV. 

3.  Not to say I don't think about poetry every day. And I tend to read a lot of poetry, especially when I'm not writing. I look at it as a reloading time. Once my brain is all stocked up, I'm back to writing. Some weeks take more stocking than others. Some weeks the poetry barrel is so empty I can see the mud at the bottom. 

4.  So what do I read to refill my poetry bucket?  An array for me. Louise Glück, Shakespeare, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Margaret Atwood, Nick Lantz, Rainer Maria Rilke, Carolyn Kizer, Sharon Olds, Dorianne Laux, the poems on http://www.poetryfoundation.org/, Literary journals, poetry magazines and randomly purchased books of poems waiting on my shelf. New poets waiting to be discovered at every turn. 

5.  So what do I write ON? The computer, Google Docs, yellow legal pads, composition notebooks, little slips of paper I stuff into my pockets to be found later. It's all fodder I try to feed into a master file for the month. Sometimes my smorgasbord reveals neat juxtapositions. Other times a line or stanza float for months, waiting to be born into something bigger.

How about you? What gets your poetry motor going?

Fragment Friday - The Announcement Edition

The big news for the start of 2015 - our poetry magazine, Gyroscope Review opens for submissions on Monday, January 5th, 2015.

Your editors - Constance Brewer, Jeff Jeppesen, and Kathleen Cassen Mickelson.

Gyroscope Review is a quarterly magazine of finely crafted poetry. We publish contemporary poetry in a variety of forms and themes, (including science fiction, fantasy and horror) and welcome both new and established writers. Look for our first issue in the Spring of 2015.

Please read the Guidelines before submitting. Hope to see you in the slushpile!

For those of you needing a Corgi fix --

Max and Merlin approve this announcement!

Fragment Friday - Post Christmas Edition

What does Child One in the metal band get for Christmas? Why a skull cap of course.

1.  Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, or Hanukkah. Did you get any interesting presents? Did you give something weird and wonderful?

2. I had chickadees at the feeder for Christmas. They were quite vocal about me being late to feed, flitted around my head, hung upside down and twittered the whole time I was filling the feeders. I expect them to knock on my door next time. "Where's the grub??"

3. I got to relive Christmas Past watching the grandkids open their presents. They took such glee in shredding the paper and yanking out the gift. I heard Oohs and Aahs and squeals of delight. And one or two puzzled "What's this?" Did you make any such comments in your present opening?

4. The weather very kindly made it a white Christmas here. Luckily, my kids are only across town, not across the state of country. Did you know Starbucks is open early Christmas morning? The baristas deserve a medal. Or a big tip - which they got.

5. Sneak Preview - Coming up fast - the opening of our new poetry magazine, Gyroscope Review. Opening for submissions on January 5, 2015. Look for the announcement here and wherever fine magazines are hawked. Meanwhile, go read up on our submissions guidelines. Hope to see you in the slushpile!

"Winter sucks" said the dove. "I agree," said the sparrow. "Are you eating that seed?"