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FROM THE EDITORS Welcome to the Summer Edition of Gyroscope Review. It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come in just a little amount of time. One of our goals is to continuously improve your Review. We want to keep moving forward, and to that end, we put up a survey on our webpage to ask our readers a few questions. Some of the results were interesting. Of those who answered “How do you read your poetry online?” 78% said they read on their desktop computer. Only 7% said by phone, which surprised me. We asked “How often do you access the Gyroscope Review webpage?” 35% said only to read a new issue, 28% said once a week. 14% said only when something new is posted, and 14% said Never. 57% said you follow us on Twitter, and 42% on Facebook. When asked “Would you prefer Gyroscope Review have a "Read on Mobile Phone" option?” 42% said No, 14% said yes, and 42% said reading the PDF on their phone was okay with them. 57% of you would like the ability to purchase a hard copy of the magazine. That’s something we’re discussing having available. Stay tuned. 50% would like to see a newsletter. Finally, 35% would like to see contests and themed contests that resulted in publication (and prize money). Thank you everyone who participated in the survey, and those who left additional comments. We’ve got a lot to mull over as we move forward to improving your Gyroscope Review. I’ll leave the survey live for another couple of weeks, so if you haven’t answered yet, now’s your chance. Scroll down the front page of our web page to find it. Thanks, everyone, for being a part of our first two years. - Constance Brewer, Editor Wow! Is this really our sixth issue? Sitting here at my desk in Roseville, Minnesota, with the windows open to the sounds of summer, I think about how lucky I’ve been to run this literary magazine from its beginning with fellow poet Constance Brewer. Our first year flew by in a nanosecond, and the second is zooming along equally as fast. Before we got down to finalizing everything for this issue, Constance and I had the pleasure of a Friday night dinner together with our partners in Gillette, Wyoming, where she lives. My husband Mick and I passed through Gillette on our early summer road trip from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest; Constance and her partner Scott made reservations for the four of us at their favorite restaurant. Working together online is a great thing, but talking in person has no equal. I’ve thought about that night often since. And I’ve thought about how it is for the poets who send us work, how they don’t have the chance to sit down with us in person. That’s the norm for a lit mag and its contributors, but I would love to have a real happy hour chatting in person with all the writers we’ve had the pleasure to publish. We did try a virtual happy hour on Facebook right after the last issue went live, but it really isn’t the same. In the end, what we have are our words as we craft them into verse, slide them into editorials, offer them as proof that we see each other and understand what matters. Gyroscope Review - !ii