Welcome to the February Issue, Issue 27.6 of Cider Press Review.
In this issue of Cider Press Review, we search for a blueprint to survive winter’s final press upon the body, for a release from the deep cold welling beneath our surfaces, for receding darkness. In “Pocketful of Light,” Susan Grimm disrupts winter’s weight: “The wind is blowing indecently, flapping some bird wings and my unopened umbrella silk. // Doing our best. We never do that. Torpid. Indolent with winter. // Rush now to the precipice of the line break. I keep putting birds in trees and lakes next to the vacant lot where / something bad is happening.” Deborah Kelly reaches for hope in “That Dream Again,” with: “But look, I walk out, leave dust where it’s set. / Let rattlers rest. // One day the dustiest place ever to cleanse / will leave me clean on the mesa.” And in “Mourning the Green,” Subhaga Crystal Bacon (they/them) reminds us that darkness is only a moment: “of rooftops. North facing windows. The elderly like me / looking where once we walked in snow, in wind, / in sun. River iced. Water full or thready. / New grass alive, alight in summer green. / Tall and golden in autumn. Then, snowfall.”
Additional to the poets highlighted above, Vol. 27, Issue 6 includes poems by Noam Lazarus, Diane Kendig, Charles Harper Webb, Ryan McCarty, Dana Henry Martin, Donald Pasmore, Beth Marquez, Susan Michele Coronel, Rimas Uzgiris, Valy Steverlynck, rose auslander, Hailey Talbert, Francine Witte, Liza Wolff-Francis, Brett Warren, and Paula Colangelo.
