Welcome to Volume 26 of Cider Press Review
Our first issue of Volume 26 opens with a tangible reverence for nature. In Sarah Ben Olson’s “Magnificat,” fir trees’ needles are “soft spring pompoms pliant and cool like wet paintbrushes..” In Terry Hall Bodine’s “Dusk,” a low-hanging sun is “a smear of apricot jam I could lick / off my thumb.” In Karla Linn Merrifield’s “Intimacy,” the roots of the earth are tasted: “I am grain / of humus sampling sugar maple roots … the sand- / stone kiss to ancient twisted roots of bristlecones.”
Additional to the poets highlighted above, Vol. 26, Issue 1 includes poems by Anna de Noailles (translated by Marilyn McCabe), Paula Brancato, Laura Rockhold, Diane Scholl, Lynn DeTurk, Allison Collins, Autumn Newman, Michael Barrett, Mary Ardery, John Schneider, Veronica Patterson, A. Molotkov, Sarah Anne Stinnett, Rebecca Myers, Karen Holmberg, Sarah Cummins Small, and Erin Lynn Marsh.
You’ll also find Jayne E. Marek’s review of Now These Three Remain by Sarah Dickenson Snyder.
