Our fist issue of Volume 24—CPR Vol. 24, Issue 1—features poems about loss, memory, the past, and the present—what persists and returns to us like the red tail hawk “scattering / the jays like loose change” in “The Return” by Sarah Giragosian.
In “Dear Carole, my favorite times,” Sarah A. Chavez writes about the speaker’s memories of listening to music with a childhood friend, “watching / the waking sun peak through the windows.” In “Who you once were,” Herman Sutter invites the reader to reflect on the old selves they have inhabited that are sometimes apparent in the smallest of moments. In “Tao of Aging,” Curtis L. Crisler gives us an account of individuality and collectivity in one persistent image: “Gray hairs / don’t give a shit about shit. / They are good with themselves— / individuals for life.” And in “Dream Pilot,” Ellis Elliott ends the poem with a strong image of recognition, “his hazel gaze locking mine.”
Read CPR Vol. 24, Issue 1 for poems by Sarah Giragosian, Shawn R. Jones, Sarah A. Chavez, Christopher Buckley, Gunilla Kester, Meghan Kemp-Gee, Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena, Cynthia Atkins, Virginia Konchan, J.A. Lagana, Curtis L. Crisler, Herman Sutter, Talley V. Kayser, Prabu Vasan, Craig Beaven, Kelly Houle, Andrea Hollander, Ellis Elliott, Mark Belair, and Daye Phillips. We also feature Dave Seter’s review of Requeening by Amanda Moore and Susana H. Case’s review of 10,000 Steps Against the Tyrant by Indran Amirthanayagam.
