FROM THE EDITORS
Here we are in April already, and Gyroscope Review is one year old. We hope you enjoy our
anniversary issue and all the wonderful poems we bring you. While putting the issue together,
something struck me as interesting. It took a couple of read-throughs, but I finally identified it.
This could be the precipitation issue. Many of the poems mentioned water in some way, shape or
form. Look at this list of watery terms found in the poems:
Flood
Sea
River
Stream
Rain
Lagoon
Ocean
Waves
Storms
Pond
Creek
Spray
Snow
Well
Tears
Pool
Bay
Tides
Drop
Gulf
Drip
Hail
Squall
Briny
Splash
Shower
Fog
Foam
Steam
Moist
There’s probably a few terms I missed, but I thought it was a great collection for spring, a time of
rebirth and renewal. Even in poems about loss there was a melancholy to hopeful air. That’s one
of the things I love about reading for Gyroscope Review: the poems seem to come in waves of
similar themes and subjects.
Jump into Gyroscope’s Spring Issue with a cannonball splash. If you find a poem that moves
you, strikes you, or just plain tickles your fancy, give the author some feedback. Drop them a line
(most have ways to contact them in the author bios), give a shout out on Facebook or Twitter, let
them know there are folks out there on our watery planet enjoying their hard work. It’s National
Poetry Month; let’s celebrate our poets!
Constance Brewer, Editor
In our first year of publication, we’ve gotten poems from poets far and wide, from people writing
in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere. Some of our
contributors have published well-received books of poetry, including James Graham whose new
book, Becoming a Tree: Poems 2007-2015, we reviewed on our website, and Alexis Rhone
Fancher, whose book, State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies, won an honorable mention at the Los
Angeles Festival of Books in March. Isabella David McCaffrey’s book, The Voices of Women, is
newly-released by Finishing Line Press. Sandra Lindow was nominated for a 2016 Rhysling
Award for her science fiction poem, An Introduction to Alternate Universes: Theory and Practice,
which we published in the Winter 2016 issue of Gyroscope Review.
We have also worked hard to streamline the process of how we put this magazine together,
including a less-cumbersome acceptance contract implemented during our last reading period.
We’ve set ourselves apart by sending our contributors a PDF proof of the magazine before it
goes live; this has allowed us to prevent a few little mistakes. We’ve stuck to our philosophy of
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