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The Pool in Palm Springs It’s a hundred and ten and I’m driftingthrough the last hour of the long weekend at our favorite hotel, floatingin the sparkling blue half-submerged and dozing. Behindthe low hum of the air conditionervoices rise and fall, sounds without language. Music plays distant and foreign. Footsteps come closer then fade. The […]
The Spring 2026 Issue arrives with an intersection of tradition and transformation. This issue moves beyond the surface-level imagery of the season to explore ‘renewal’ in all its complex forms: the shedding of old skins, the persistence of survival, and the resilience of the human spirit. These poems celebrate a diversity of thought, proving that while […]
Welcome to the Winter 2026 Issue of Gyroscope Review! Our poets delivered their usual fine mix of evocative and thought-provoking poems for this issue. There’s commentary on the state of the world, as well as commentary on the state of the soul. Nature poems are interspersed, reminding us to take time to rest and reset […]
The Gyroscope Review 2025 Year End Anthology contains work by over 200 poets, a collection from all four of the 2025 Issues of Gyroscope Review, at half the price! The issues cover a wide variety of fine, contemporary poems ranging from the traditional forms to the new and original, and range from profound to thoughtful, […]
