Camasin Pedroja wins the 2018 Cider Press Review Book Award
The editors are delighted to announce that Camasin Pedroja of Portland, Oregon, won the
Common Plants of Nunavut
by Caroline Goodwin
MOUNTAIN AVENS
This is when the birds start to lay eggs. And this
one starts to uncoil. Today the sky is most unfriendly.
Downright hostile, one could say. All pallid, all doughy, all
globule, all spasm, all unshapely, all unspun. When at last
they can’t find you anywhere, they remove the breathing
tube. Every scrap of cloth. It is dream it … Continue Reading ››
Misdirection
by Jen Karetnick
To seal the mouth after the Seder meal
so that nothing unholy might enter
with the exception of two cups of wine
is what the Haggadah writes of matzoh—
digest a one-half egg volume portion.
Digest a one-half egg volume portion.
Then recite the prayer that turns dust to dough.
About such magic there’s just one question
for the ascetic skeptic … Continue Reading ››
Landscape with Mud and Prints
by Jennifer Bullis
The trails slick and soggy after three months’ snow
and rain. Water fills the woods, floors all the low places
with slow-flowing brown and gray.
Sometimes, the water silvers, and branches above,
as always, green.
Among still-bare canes of wild rose and salmonberry,
a new path tramped by dogs off-leash
leads to a puddle, now pond. I follow the paw prints
to see. … Continue Reading ››