Welcome to the October Issue, Volume 27, Issue 4 of Cider Press Review.
In this issue of Cider Press Review, as late summer unfurls into autumn, we examine the ways in which we repair in the wake of loss and grief. In “Still Life with Grief,” Kirkpatrick-Vrenios treasures a found object: “If I hadn’t / dug for potatoes / I would have missed it / lying / between / the yellowed leaves.” With “Catechism,” Thomas Phalen reminds us to savor present moments while they’re still within our grasp: “But all was lost, just not lost yet. / We still had now and here. / No luckier man was there than I, / She in my arms tonight.” And in “Lay two feathers across each other and ask for a mysterious dream,” Hilda Weiss’s strength to continue resonates: “loss is a pebble, and / you are still / on a windy hillside / facing the sun.”
Additional to the poets highlighted above, Vol. 27, Issue 4 includes poems by Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Jay Brecker, Karen Kilcup, Jennifer Stewart Miller, Xiaoly Li, David A. Bart, David Mohan, Gary Stein, Charles Kell, Carla Schwartz, Margaret Chula, Alyse Bensel, Roger Desy, Colleen S. Harris, Marcy Rae Henry, Sherri Levine, Patricia Hemminger, and Devon Miller-Duggan.
