With this issue, Cider Press Review enters into its twenty-eighth year of publishing the best new poetry in English.
In the first issue of Volume 28, as spring beckons, we notice the shadows cast, the light softening—and in a world reemerging, we sit in rapture at what blooms after darkness. In “False Spring,” Angie Crea O’Neal reminds us of vigilance, even in the brightness of new light: “that rise at the first sign of spring. / They never learn, / falling for the same old thing / swept in by a southern wind.” In the translation of Romanian poet Leonard Tuchilatu’s “For You,” we are reminded of the beauty of resilience and darkening cycles of change, which survive past the body in poetry: “while having nowhere to hide. / Grab all you have left / and leave, / for the sun is coming down the stairs.” And Dana Henry Martin nurtures presence in a world on the cusp of blinking away in “The Eleventh Day of the Cruelest Month,” with: “If I could turn a moment into eternity, / it would be this one, lying beneath / the purple robe locust as carpenter bees / fight over the blossoms and lesser goldfinches.”
Additional to the poets highlighted above, Volume 28, Issue 1 includes poems by Michael Hackney, V. P. Loggins, Hilda Weiss, Lake Angela, Nat Bottigheimer, John A. Nieves, Patricia Davis-Muffett, Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Daniel Edward Moore, Moriah Hampton, Jonathan Blunk, Lijia Xie, Margaret Chula, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Bern Mulvey, Roger Camp, and Shuly Cawood.
Enjoy!
Abigale Card, Managing Editor
