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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.

To order your own or extra copies, please visit the CPR Bookstore.

CPR Volume 16, Issue 3

Boredom
by Gary Hawkins

July 1, 2014 admin Leave a comment

Here in the woods we measure our boredom with an
inventory of our broken obligations to the rest of the
world. No one is waiting for us to call. We have
nothing to say. We measure our darkness in the smear
of bats, elephant hues drawn against a bracken
backdrop. We measure it in the click-click-clicked
circumference of illumination given by a 3-way bulb.
We measure it in the black shrieks of children that,
please God, must be some kind of animal call. And
we learn from the radio the exact trajectory by which
the Strawberry Moon—who knew it was already
June—will cross the ridge and blind the meadow. But
for this blackout of clouds tonight, pulled up tight
against the mountains. But for these low mists of
static hissing a faint forecast over the FM. And I am
awake again, my shadow body laid out next to you,
waiting for the whatever moon, that unreliable
streetlamp, while a lightning bug clings to the
windowscreen, raising and lowering its semaphore in
an unparsable pattern, beckoning to the steady
nightlight in the corner, which will not listen to my
little fears. No, never. How I have tried.

Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 16, Issue 3.

Gary Hawkins is a poet, teacher, and scholar. A letterpress chapbook, Who Do We Know Who Works? is forthcoming in 2014 from Trade Union Press. He thrills at having one of poetry’s most enviable addresses in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

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Cider Press Review Volume 16, Issue 3 Debuts July 1

June 30, 2014 admin Leave a comment

The latest issue of Cider Press Review, Volume 16, Issue 3, premiers overnight July 1, 2014 starting at midnight (PST).

Volume 16, Issue 3 includes poems by Nancy Carol Moody, Maggie Blake, Gemma Cooper-Novack, Jose Araguz, Carol V. Davis, Colleen Michaels, Mary Moore, Kevin Phan, Diane Lockward, Gary Hawkins, Sandra Marchetti, Carol Berg, Andrea Potos, Jennifer Jackson Berry, Lisa Cihlar, S. Jordan, Marq Wilson, Jimmie Cumbie, Louisa Howerow, Mark Wagenaar, Susannah Nevison, Sarah Henning, Rebecca Baggett, Evelyn Farbman, and Sharon Chmielarz. Review of Anthony DiMatteo’s “Beautiful Problems: Poems” by Susana H. Case.

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