Welcome to Volume 26, Issue 6 of Cider Press Review.
In this issue of Cider Press Review, we notice the duality of coming together and falling apart. In Katelyn Garcia’s “Barn Sour,” we see the convergence of quilting and self: “Right sides together right sides kissing softly. / Press seams open to find purple girl— / to find animal and pit.” In J.D. Isip’s “All Hell Breaks Loose,” things fall apart in various ways: divorce, the world burning; “all decorum lost / in the spectacle of the fall, the torn crust of earth.” In Jennifer Stewart Miller’s “Drawer Full of Ocean,” a collection of “Shell words: mother of pearl, nacre. Nacreous, iridescent, bleached, / pearlescent. Sea-purple, sea-pink, / the blue blue difference between the inside and outside / of a mussel shell.”
Additional to the poets highlighted above, Vol. 26, Issue 6 includes poems by Amanda Auchter, Mermer Blakeslee, Jessie Brown, Marion Brown, Susana H. Case, Anna Gayle, Paulette Guerin, Justin Hunt, Karen Kilcup, Daniel Kuriakose, Susanna Lang, Jude Marr, Daye Phillippo, Candice Reffe, Jen Grace Stewart, Elizabeth Vignali, and Dick Westheimer.
You’ll also find Abbie Kiefer’s review of Meghan Sterling’s View from a Borrowed Field.
Since this is my last issue introduction as Managing Editor of Cider Press Review, I wish you all well. I hope you keep reading, writing, and enjoying poetry to the fullest.
Until next time!
Catherine Campbell,
Managing Editor (Outgoing)
