Cider Press Review

06/02/2024

"February’s issue is all about drawing inward and inspecting our memories during the year’s last cold, dark days." Catherine Campbell previews CPR Volume 25-6.

by admin February 6, 2024 February’s issue is all about drawing inward and inspecting our memories during the year’s last cold, dark days. In Mark Defoe’s “Handle with Care, the Egg of Memory,” memory is a liferaft: “What quivers on the brink of being / may yet save you—someone’s lau...

31/01/2024

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2023 Cider Press Review Book Award.

Jo Brachman of Pine Lake, Georgia, won the 2023 Cider Press Review Book Award for Prayers to a Small Stone. She received $1,500, publication of her book by Cider Press Review, and 25 author copies. Requiem in Wide-Open Minor, by Justin Hunt was the Runner-up. Judge Jayne Marek remarks, “I found my heart moving back and forth among several manuscripts, over time, which is a delightful challenge (e.g., it reminded me that any result will be good). I like Prayers to a Small Stone best of all, for its combination of polished, well-shaped pieces and its imaginative range. The runner-up is Requiem in Wide-Open Minor for its sensitive and interesting handling of history and emotions.”

by admin January 31, 2024 We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2023 Cider Press Review Book Award. Jo Brachman of Pine Lake, Georgia, won the 2023 Cider Press Review Book Award for Prayers to a Small Stone. She received $1,500, publication of her book by Cider Press Review, and 25 author c...

30/01/2024

RHINO Reviews includes our newest title, INHERITANCE WITH A HIGH ERROR RATE. Check it out!

RHINO Reviews is LIVE! Featuring Sean Thomas Dougherty, Sara Daniele Rivera, India Lena Gonzales, Stephen Bett, Edgar Kunz, Linda Besner, C.K. Williams, and an interview with Jen Karetnick. Check it out! https://rhinopoetry.org/reviews-volume7-no1-january-2024

14/12/2023

Our December issue is live. Here's a preview by Managing Editor Catherine Campbell.

by admin December 14, 2023 Fitting with the dark of the season, the poems found in our most recent issue orbit a sense of seclusion. In Laura Tanenbaum’s “New Years 2023,” this feeling is found in “quiet desert rooms…witnessed only by a scrub jay and a doll / half-stuffed in a box.” Andr...

27/11/2023

We know you've been busy, but now's the time to send in your poetry manuscript to the CPR Book Award https://mailchi.mp/ciderpressreview/final-week-the-cpr-book-award-for-your-poetry

16/08/2023

Elizabeth Garcia wins the 2023 Cider Press Review Editors' Prize with her manuscript Resurrected Body.
https://ciderpressreview.com/cider-press-review/elizabeth-garcia-wins-the-2023-cider-press-review-editors-prize-with-resurrected-body/

11/08/2023

The Editors of CPR are delighted to announce the Finalist manuscripts for the 2023 Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize.

Almost Tender
At Some Point
Bad Fun
Prayer to a Small Stone
Reckless Shelter
Resurrected Body

by admin August 11, 2023 The editors are delighted to be able to announce the six exceptional finalists in our 2023 Editors’ Prize Book Award Contest*: Almost Tender At Some Point Bad Fun Prayer to a Small Stone Reckless Shelter Resurrected Body Final award selection will be announced August 15, 2...

08/08/2023

CIDER PRESS REVIEW is entering its 25th year. Publisher Caron Andregg has some thoughts.

by admin August 7, 2023 By Caron Andregg, Publisher   It started with one short phone call. In 1999, Robert Wynne and I were both in Los Angeles, fixtures in the vibrant and exuberantly productive LA poetry scene. At the time, Robert had recently edited the “Beyond the Valley of Contemporary Poet...

25/07/2023

Congratulations to Sara Moore Wagner for being the Fan Favorite in Poetry.

Earlier today, we announced John Scalzi's "The Kaiju Preservation Society" as the winner of the 8th annual Readers' Choice Book Award and in the category of fiction.

More than 2,000 votes were cast online in this year's poll. As promised, here are the fan favorites in each of the other five award categories - several tallies were very close!

Poetry - Sara Moore Wagner, "Swan Wife"
Nonfiction - Luma Mufleh, "Learning America: One Woman’s Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children"
About Ohio - Richard F. Celeste, "In the Heart of It All: An Unvarnished Account of My Life in Public Service"
Middle Grade/Young Adult - Margaret Peterson Haddix, "The School for Whanots"
Juvenile - Marcy Campbell, "The More You Give"

Congratulations again to each of these authors, and to ALL the 2023 award winners and finalists. And THANK YOU to every reader who voted for their favorite.

28/06/2023

Congratulations, Sara! Please VOTE FOR SWAN WIFE at https://survey.typeform.com/to/XOWNecvK

33 Books, 33 Days - the 2023 Ohioana Book Award finalists! Day 28: Our fifth poetry finalist is Sara Moore Wagner's "Swan Wife," a collection that has been praised as toggling "between the worlds of fairy tales and the world we live in" and "re-imagines the domestic." Moore is also the author of "Hillbilly Madonna." She has won a number of awards, and her poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies. She lives in West Chester, Ohio with her filmmaker husband Jon and their three children (Photo by Christen Kauffman). For more information visit
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21/06/2023

SWAN WIFE is a Finalist for the 2023 OHIOana Readers Choice Book Award. Please (and Thank you!) vote for SWAN WIFE early and often, and SHARE. https://mailchi.mp/ciderpressreview/please-vote-for-swan-wife-the-next-winner-could-be-you

15/05/2023

Our heartfelt congratulations to Sara Moore Wagner! SWAN WIFE is a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award.

15 May 2023 Announcing the 2023 Ohioana Book Award Finalists by Ohioana_Admin | posted in: authors, Awards, News | 0 A scene from the 2016 Ohioana Book Awards ceremony (Photo by Mary Rathke) Ohioana Library is pleased to announce the finalists for the 82nd annual Ohioana Book Awards. First given in....

21/04/2023

Our own Sara Moore Wagner is featured on Verse Daily TODAY! She won the CPR Editors' Prize in 2021--You could win in 2023. Submissions close June 30. https://mailchi.mp/ciderpressreview/sara-moore-wagner-on-verse-daily-editors-prize-accepting-manuscripts

30/03/2023

Jen Karetnick Wins 2022 CPR Book Award; Editors' Prize Opens April 1 - https://mailchi.mp/ciderpressreview/jen-karetnick-wins-2022-cpr-book-award-editors-prize-opens-april-1

22/02/2023

Call for Submissions of Poetry and Reviews -

Cider Press Review, Cider Press Review, a journal of contemporary poetry, seeks to discover and publish the best of new poetry written in English—writing that showcases craft and substance, poetry that has something to say and says it beautifully. CPR actively seeks new original work and translati...

24/01/2023

https://ciderpressreview.com/reviews/review-of-madness-by-gabriel-ojeda-sague/ #.Y88uli-B3q0

"Ojeda-Sagué leaves us with a paradoxical question: The greater the artifice, the greater the sense of authenticity?"

John Bradley reviews Madness by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué:

by admin December 31, 2022 Madness, Gabriel Ojeda-SaguéISBN‏ : ‎ 9781643621173Nightboat Books (March 15, 2022)152 pages, $17.95, Paper Reviewed by John Bradley “Everything past this page is a fiction” the reader is warned before reading a single poem in this book. It’s a fitting notice. M...

16/01/2023

"Structure, reason, meaning, all exist because two sounds, linking, click shut like a snap purse clutch."

Susan Azar Porterfield reviews This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A.E. Stallings:

by admin November 28, 2022 This Afterlife: Selected Poems A.E. StallingsISBN: 9780374600693(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, December 2022)240 pages, $28.00, Hardcover Reviewed by Susan Azar Porterfield Rhyme makes things true: If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit. Somewhere in our brains, in our vib...

27/12/2022

Announcing our final issue of 2022, Vol. 24, Issue 5, featuring poetry by Angela Siew, Robert Fanning, Pui Ying Wong, Ellery Beck, Connie Soper, Jeddie Sophronius, Cassie McDaniel, Ann E. Michael, John Miller, Tina Cane, David E. Poston, Melissa Balut Fondakowski, Morgan Reed, Nick Conrad, Cammy Thomas, Sarah Carleton, Tim Suermondt, Emily Hockaday, Robin Turner, and Mary Beth Hines. We also feature Susan Azar Porterfield’s review of This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A.E. Stallings, and John Bradley’s review of Madness by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué (coming January 1st, 2023).

CPR Volume 24-5 December, 2022 T A B L E of C O N T E N T S POEMS Angela Siew, Tai Ma Robert Fanning, The Unspeakable Pui Ying Wong, North Point Morning Ellery Beck, Static Connie Soper, The Way It Happened Jeddie Sophronius, Nightly Prayer Cassie McDaniel, Toronto, Texas Ann E. Michael, The Muddy M...

29/11/2022

Deadline Extended to December 3rd for the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award -

The annual Cider Press Review Book Award offers a $1,500 prize, publication, and 25 author's copies of a book length collection of poetry. Author receives a standard publishing contract. Initial print run is not less than 1,000 copies. 2022 judge is Lauren Camp. While we strongly encourage all autho...

27/11/2022

Final Week to Submit Your Poetry Manuscript for the2022 Cider Press Review Book Award -

The annual Cider Press Review Book Award offers a $1,500 prize, publication, and 25 author's copies of a book length collection of poetry. Author receives a standard publishing contract. Initial print run is not less than 1,000 copies. 2022 judge is Lauren Camp. While we strongly encourage all autho...

25/11/2022

Call for Manuscripts--the 2021 Cider Press Review Book Award - https://mailchi.mp/ciderpressreview/call-for-manuscripts-the-2021-cider-press-review-book-award
The CPR Book Award is accepting poetry manuscripts through December 3rd.

02/11/2022

If you didn't already know it, CPR Vol. 24, Issue 4 is available for your reading pleasure! We're grateful to publish these fine poems by Gustavo Adolfo Garcés translated from the Spanish by Carlos Reyes, as well as additional poems by Samaa Abdurraqib, John Miller, Connie Soper, Aryton Lopez, Deborah Pope, Genevieve Creedon, Pui Ying Wong, John Nieves, Angela Siew, Nick Conrad, Susana Case, Marc Di Martino, Cynthia Rausch Allar, George Looney, Will Walker, Colleen Kam Siu, M.S. Rooney, Eric Fisher Stone, and Laura Hogan. We also feature Kevin Spicer’s review of Hallelujah Time by Virginia Konchan and Nikki Ummel’s review of Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar:

by Cider Press Review October 31, 2022 Honey, pears, oranges, gooseberries, gardenias—our October issue features blossoms and harvests in poems that celebrate form, shape, and what it means to give our attention over to something small and ephemeral. In “Ascension,” Marc Di Martino writes abou...

16/08/2022

CPR Vol. 24, Issue 3 is here! Our August issue features a collaborative poem by Angela Narciso Torres and Lúcia Leão, as well as poems by Yehoshua November, Andrea Rodriguez, George Looney, Megan Merchant, John-Michael Bloomquist, Barbara Daniels, Gabriela Halas, Rob Cook, Suzanne Allen, Guinotte Wise, Amy Soricelli, V.P. Loggins, Sarah Lilius, Anne Yarbrough, Derek N. Otsuji, Hannah Jane Weber, Margaret D. Stetz, James K. Zimmerman, and Ann Pelletier. We also feature Teresa E. Gallion’s review of i am the rage by Dr. Martina McGowan and Michael Maiello’s review of Glass Bikini by Kristin Bock.

by Cider Press Review August 15, 2022 Our August issue features poems about places and experiences that make us question who we are. In “Days of a Thousand Weathers I: An Epistolary,” Angela Narciso Torres and Lúcia Leão write about the loss of routine: “Little things— // pruning roses, sa...

30/07/2022

We’re excited to welcome Cathrine Freisen as Managing Editor on our team!

Catherine is a writer, editor, and illustrator living on the side of a mountain. They have held editing positions with eight publications, and their work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals. When they’re not writing, they can be found baking cakes, singing to their plants, or getting lost in the woods.

You can find their full bio on our site: https://ciderpressreview.com/about/ #.YuLxXi9h2u5.