Measure Review

07/11/2021

After several years, I have made the difficult decision to permanently close Measure Review. I hope you continue to enjoy the archives, although they may not remain online indefinitely. Until we meet again! - Ashley Anna

For more details, follow the link below: https://measurereview.org/2021/11/06/the-closure-of-measure-review/

After several years, I have made the difficult decision to permanently close Measure Review.  I’m not a stranger to editing, but managing the intricacies of how to make a website format …

25/07/2021

Our newest featured by Miles David Moore questions the value of survival, when you consider the costs. Read "How to Survive" now, and be grateful you're not a mouse.

https://measurereview.org/2021/07/25/how-to-survive/

18/07/2021

In clipped accentual lines, Nicholas Pierce explores the unevenness of lingering grief, and how it can't be fully articulated or explained - only endured. Read "Gutting the House" now, then follow us for more formal .

https://measurereview.org/2021/07/18/gutting-the-house

“Gulls kettle in the steam /rising from what, / from meters up, must seem / like tea bags but / for the smell”

11/07/2021

Our newest featured by Mary Romero reflects on the knowledge that, sometimes, the only way to love someone is to lose them. Read "Song of Kalypso" now, then follow us for more formal .

https://measurereview.org/2021/07/11/song-of-kalypso

“No chance your mortal bride can thrill you as I do. / Awe-slapped, your lips hung loose at your first sight of me.”

04/07/2021

Our newest featured is a sweet love song for a loyal friend from A.M. Juster. Read "Sundowning" now, then follow us for more formal .
https://measurereview.org/2021/07/04/sundowning/

“We plod in numb, arthritic steps—uphill / at first to make returning easier.”

27/06/2021

Based on our newest featured , by some measures, fame sounds pretty awful - but Daniel Galef still manages to lighten the mood. Read "The Famous Writer," then follow us for more formal .
https://measurereview.org/2021/06/27/the-famous-writer

“You’ll think yourself a marble bust. You’re slate, / And every creep and critic is a sponge”

20/06/2021

What's the right response to meeting someone charming? For Andrew Szilvasy, there's only one answer. Read his , "Practiced Beauty," to find out.

“High-cheeked, dark-haired, toned like prehistory / put him to work”

13/06/2021

Writing in a nonce form that's half-sestina and half-ghazal, Marly Youmans has created a stunning and hopeful worth remembering - and form worth trying yourself. Read it now at http://measurereview.org.

https://measurereview.org/2021/06/13/self-portrait-as-ruth-the-moabite/

“How came I to this place of burning stars?”

06/06/2021

In our newest featured poem, Matthew Roth explores how we sometimes get overshadowed by those we love. Not that there's anything wrong with being Lubbock, right? Read the now at http://measurereview.org.

https://measurereview.org/2021/06/06/synecdoche/

“Though they became by vows one flesh / he felt himself a little less”

30/05/2021

If you've ever felt the first sparks of love start to fade away, our newest featured by Blake Campbell is for you. Read the poem now at http://measurereview.org.

https://measurereview.org/2021/05/30/fireworks-and-after/

“We watched the colors break and spread / At what would be our passion’s peak”

23/05/2021

With two refrains, great villanelles transform our understanding through repetition - no easy feat. In our newest featured , Stephen Gibson accomplishes just that. Read his villanelle now at http://measurereview.org.

https://measurereview.org/2021/05/23/wwii-photo-of-my-father/

“My father sent my mother a photograph from boot camp— / tucked in a corner of her mirror when she put on lipstick”

16/05/2021

In our featured this week, Rick Mullin dares you to find happiness - even if you can't define it. Read more on Measure Review at http://measurereview.org.

https://measurereview.org/2021/05/16/happy/

“Prescribe yourself your favorite medicine, / go home and go to bed for like a week.”

09/05/2021

If you're not sure why someone would pray to a god built "beside the freeway in a vacant lot," Kurt Rasmussen wrote this week's featured for you. Read "God of Seventh Street" now at http://measurereview.org.

https://measurereview.org/2021/05/09/god-of-seventh-street/

“Somebody built a god near seventh street / beside the freeway in a vacant lot”

02/05/2021

Our featured this week is an unrhymed by Scot Langland, whose inventive language and vivid imagery leads us to a surprising, but apt variation in the last line. Read "On Mobile Bay" now on Measure Review at http://measurereview.org.

https://measurereview.org/2021/05/02/on-mobile-bay/

“My Baba rokus through her TV apps, / calls up the Royal Shakespeare Company”

25/04/2021

It may be true that "Goldengrove’s unleaving / cannot be disbelieved," as Gail White writes in our featured this week - but that doesn't mean the fun has to stop. Read "An Invitation" now at http://measurereview.org https://measurereview.org/2021/04/25/an-invitation/

“The years have done their thieving, / No time can be retrieved.”

18/04/2021

In our featured this week, Charlie Green assures us that "God is not a clown" - but it turns out, maybe that's not such a good thing after all. Read more at http://measurereview.org. https://measurereview.org/2021/04/18/sock-and-buskin/

“The harlequins should tumble, for your death / will not defy the odds”