Welcome to the 25th Volume of poetry from Cider Press Review!
In Issue 1, we continue CPR’s tradition of publishing finely crafted poetry, and, fittingly, we begin with poems about writing, dreaming, and art-making. We celebrate the work of writing and the language play that results when we least expect it. We value the emotions and situations that make writing possible. In “When I Write About Us,” Judith Fox writes about a place “where irises open / their throats / to croon in French / when the moon turns red.” We pay homage to the great modernists with “the diet” by Karren LaLonde Alenier, who writes after Stein in potent, surprising couplets: “blood flows unimpeded / between us eyes closed / no crime scene the birdlime.” We look ahead without ceasing to remember with poems like “Spit Like It Was Yesterday” by Alison Stone: “When we get the lesson, the past loosens / its claw. I learn, I grow, I remember.”
Read Vol. 25, Issue 1 for additional poems by Rachael Ikins, Roula-Maria Dib, Hedy Habra, Carly Drysdale, Anne Cheilek, Ellen Zhang, Joannie Stangeland, Daisy Basset, Oceana Callum, Wyn Cooper, George Franklin, Sarah Lilius, Jim Tilley, Diane Scholl, Andrena Zawinski, Jason Irwin, and Xiaoly Li. Don’t forget to read Susan Azar Porterfield’s review of From the Belly: Poets Respond to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, Vol. 1, edited by Karren LaLonde Alenier.
