Time and again in Volume 26, Issue 3 of Cider Press Review, we are confronted with the divine interwoven with the ordinary. In Katharyn Howard Machan’s “Skyros,” the divine arises in a summer storm: “Thunder moved through olive trees / and rain dropped high and fast. / She was prayer.” In Jennifer K. Sweeny’s “Pacific Chorus Frog,” the divine is in the frog’s song, as “it surfaces / thickly / cream-into-air / blackblossom prayer.” In Neil Carpathios’s “Answering Machine,” the divine is on the end of an unanswered call: “The recording comes on. She can’t hear. / Her weak sipping breaks the kitchen’s heart. / I ask God: Why?”
Additional to the poets highlighted above, the August issue includes poems by Laurel Benjamin, Jacob Boyd, Jessie Brown, Amelia Díaz Ettinger, Carmen Germain, Kathleen Hellen, Lea Marshall, Tara Moyle, David O’Connell, Christine Potter, Michael Quattrone, Hayley Rieg , Sherry Rind, Kerry Trautman, Connemara Wadsworth, Margot Wizansky, and Rose Maria Woodson.
You’ll also find Dale Cottingham’s review of Brian Turner’s The Dead Peasant’s Handbook.
Enjoy!
Catherine Campbell
