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CPR Best of Volume 16 Now Available

May 25, 2015 admin Leave a comment

After more than a week of stuffing envelopes, the hard-copy “Best of Volume 16” Cider Press Review is on its way to contributors, subscribers, and former Book Award contest entrants.

The “Best of” issue features poems by Rebecca Baggett, Carol Berg, Jennifer Jackson Berry, Maggie Blake, Ace Boggess, John Bradley, Christine Butterworth-McDermott, Sharon Chmielarz, Lisa J. Cihlar, Joan Colby, Michael Collins, Gemma Cooper-Novack, Jimmie Cumbie, Carol V. Davis, Paul Dickey, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Carol Ellis, Sarah Estes, David Eye, Evelyn Clark Farbman, Shawn Fawson, Janice Greenwood, David Hathwell, Gary Hawkins, Sara Henning, Brian Patrick Heston, Louisa Howerow, Ann Hudson, Amie Keddy, Heather Lang, Susanna Lang, Mercedes Lawry, Bernadette McBride, Amy Meckler, Colleen Michaels, Nancy Carol Moody, Carolyn Moore, Mary Moore, Susannah Nevison, Amy Newday, Autumn Newman, Sharon Olson, Mary Elizabeth Parker, Lynn Pedersen, Kevin Phan, Katherine Rauk, Geri Rosenzweig, Michael G. Smith, Heather Sommer, Sarah Sousa, Joannie Stangeland, Kelly Terwilliger, Lisken Van Pelt Dus, Ryan Vine, Donna Vorreyer, Chelsea Wagenaar, Mark Wagenaar, Marq Wilson, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Anne Harding Woodworth, Matthew Zingg. Book reviews by Ken Hada and Gary Leising.

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CPR Volume 15, Issue 4

If This University Were the Galapagos Islands
by Christine Butterworth McDermott

October 1, 2013 admin Leave a comment

When you are an old man, you will still collect them,
these co-eds with coral cheeks, seashell pink lips.

You say, let them mouth your praises, like a bunch
of tropical fish caught in your tank. I know what

you are doing, you bronze hammerhead. You must
keep swimming rather than drown. Push that water

through your aching gills, Buddy. Flash through
these schools—blue, yellow, white—like you know

the current. Oh, how the delicate angelfish approach.
You’re convinced they want to kiss your sores away,

pick the small meat off your furrowed brow, your
bloated body. How good it feels as they brush

their fins across the pocked sores of your skin,
all the wounds given by your prehistoric world.

What can you teach them? Just the lumbering
momentum of your turning, just the giant slap

of your tail against the water, which no longer
causes waves but ripples to the shore.

Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 15, Issue 4.

Christine Butterworth-McDermott is an associate professor at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she teaches creative writing and fairy tales. She is the author of a chapbook, Tales on Tales: Sestinas, and a full-length collection, Woods & Water, Wolves & Women.

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CPR Journal Volume 15, Issue 2 Now Online

April 10, 2013 admin Leave a comment

Cider Press Review’s April 2013 web issue, Volume 15, Issue 2, is now online.

Read new work by Sandra Kohler, Lois Marie Harrod, Jeanpaul Ferro, David Filer, Lorraine Doran, Rebecca Aronson, Doris Matthews, Brenda Yates, Diane Scholl, Sharon Chmielarz, Joseph Dorazio, Rachel Rostad, Christine Butterworth McDermott, Barbara Mossberg, Shawn Fawson, Susana Lang, John Davis, Susan Grimm, Grant Clauser, Kathleen Hellen, John Sibley Williams, and Jane Rosenberg LaForge.

Read the issue online today; download a Kindle version from Amazon in May.

A Journal of Contemporary Poetry