In this issue of Cider Press Review, winter blows in—for better or worse. In Jennifer Phillips’ “A Sort-Of Happy Holiday,” a lonely day is rectified with “a smatter / of reflected red and green in the ice, / and the radiator’s cranking out its old hymn of comfort.” In SM Stubbs’ “Café in Early Winter,” a man stays alone in a cafe, only leaving when it’s dark out, “streetlights almost warm enough to shine.” Then, in Michael Meyerhofer’s “Last words of an Iowan,” the narrator is just “done taking down / the Christmas tree when my family called / called to warn me that my grandfather / was breathing through a tube.”
Additional to the poets highlighted above, Vol. 26, Issue 5 includes poems by Elizabeth Rae Bullmer, Elizabeth Coleman, John Dudek, Joanne Durham, Jennifer Stewart Miller, Kaisa Ullsvik Miller, Stacy Boe Miller, Mary Moore, Daye Phillippo, Annie Przypyszny, Jen Grace Stewart, Elizabeth Vignali, Sara Wallace, Charles Harper Webb, and P. Ivan Young.
You’ll also find Jamie Lorentzen’s review of Michelle Meyer’s The Trouble With Being a Childless Only Child.
Happy holidays!
Catherine Campbell, Managing Editor
