Whether it’s a 3 am phone call in Drew Pisarra’s “Pick Up, Pick Up,” or the recollection of frustrated travels without GPS navigation in Hsien Min Toh’s “Use of the phone in navigation,” CPR Vol. 23, Issue 5 contains poems about human experience: the hours spent sculpting in “Art History” by Emily August; the ekphrastic encounter within an MRI machine in “MRI With Enameled Buffalo Horn” by Hannah Silverstein; and the game of catch that settles like a familiar blanket over two people discussing bad news in “Playing Catch” by Joseph Chelius.
Read CPR Vol. 23, Issue 5 for your own inspirational experience. Our December issue features poems by Emily August, Derek Otsuji, Sara Backer, Catherine-Esther Cowie, Drew Pisarra, Jayne Relaford Brown, William Reichard, Thomas R. Moore, Judy Kronenfeld, Joseph Chelius, Felicia Sanzari Chernesky, Hsien Min Toh, Patricia Caspers, DS Maolalai, Chris Bullard, Hannah Silverstein, Joseph Fasano, Kathleen Wakefield, and Jennifer Harrison. Also featuring Joannie Stangeland’s review of The Nightfields by Joanna Klink, and Will Reger’s review of In the Morning we are Glass by Andra Schwarz forthcoming on December 15th.
