Issue 27.2 of Cider Press Review, June 2025
In this issue of Cider Press Review, the brightness, and blurriness, of living is central. Shuly Cawood holds space for the unknown in “Two Standard Poodles” with “and for a moment you forget / about the sleep, the hurt, your parents’ growing frailty, / and the days that might come that scare you.” In “A Daughter’s Exuviae,” Claudine R. Moreau’s lines shine a light: “Though I lived it, too, / I am amazed at how / a body in the dark / knows when to molt.” And P Sutton reminds that “The pebbles are a chorus of broken mouths / forever singing. They are remembrance stones / plucked silently from mass graves” in “To the Pebbled Shore.”
Additional to the poets highlighted above, Vol. 27, Issue 1 includes poems by Lee Potts, Melanie McCabe, Nancy Takacs, Kathryn Jordan, Julia Wendell, Melanie Figg, Brett Warren, Rose Mary Boehm, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Alyse Bensel, Melody Wilson, Robbi Nester, Barbara Daniels, Marianne Brems, Kelly Terwilliger, Erika Seshadri, and Susan Grimm.
Abigail Card
Managing Editor
