Every now and then someone posts something at The Gazebo that strikes a chord in us. Posts come and go (no, we don't keep archives of everything that's appeared on The Gazebo) and we find ourselves thinking of conversations or poems we saw weeks before and wish we had them at hand to read again. And so we've created this section of The Alsop Review. A place to showcase some of our personal favorites. Here they are, in alphabetical order by author. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
Conversations
The Relatively
Recent Free Verse Tradition
— RJ McCaffery
Do Not Go Gentle
—Golias
Owner's Manual
—
Challenge
—RJ McCaffery
You Fix My Poem -
I'll Fix Yours
—Carol Taylor
Karen's Pub
Competition: Love Poetry for Cynics
—Sharon Taylor
Question on Rhyme
—Brett Thibault
Poems
It Also Needs a
Title
—David Astley
Apartment During
Heatwave
—Ciaran
The First Annual Poetic Cross-Dressing Contest
The Second Annual Poetic Cross-Dressing Contest
The Third Annual Poetic Cross-Dressing Contest
As It Happened
—Seth Abramson
On the Suicide of
a Friend
—David Anthony
Just because I'm
writing
—Michele Boyd
Sparrow Sonnet
—Julie Carter
But soon
—Julie Carter
Rules of the Game
—Bea Ericson
Protocol
—Larry L. Fontenot
Numbers &
Chastity
—Andrew Gresham
Calling the Roll
—M.A.Griffiths
Shedding a Little Light on Light
—M.A.Griffiths
The Patron
Saint of Repeating Yourself
—Jim Hayes
Jingle Goes to War
—Sam Home
Through the Ice
—Richard Jordan
Not Our Dog
—Rose Kelleher
A Mistake Is Not
—Frances Leviston
Advancing to
Celestial Mechanics
—Jennifer Ley
Book of Watchers
—Patricia Lockwood
We Are Fiercely
Protected by Rabbits
—Christopher Martin
Holding Your
Glasses in My Hand
—Karen Masullo
Waiting with
Alexandria for Her Mom
—Frank Matagrano
Throwing a Shoe
at the Branch
—Frank Matagrano
We Keep
the Dog.
—James AL Midgley
Break Your
Mother's Back.
—Chelle Miko
Proper Triolet
Etiquette
—Howard Miller
Pointillism:
Two-Day Show at a One-Room Gallery
—Carolyn Moore
Rhythm & Smoke
—Jennifer Oliver
Anti-villanelle
—Linda Sue Park
Teaching
English Nine With Laryngitis
—Christine Potter
Conjoined
Twins
—Christine Potter
September Elegy
--Ludwig Boltzmann, d. Sept. 5, 1906, Duino
—Martin Rocek
The Deliberate Drunk
—Stephanie Rogers
The Deliberate Drunk
—Stephanie Rogers
Table Trapped
—Byron Lee Sacre
Ibsen and the
Scorpion
—Matthew Sperling
Truly Red's Dog
—Don Taylor
Muddy on the slide:
"Trouble No More"
—CK Tower
Drift
—Amy Unsworth
Western Devolution
—Watson