Comstock Review

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2025 JESSIE BRYCE NILES CHAPBOOK
WINNERS!!

Thank you to everyone for your poetry and your patience.
A special thanks to our Judge, Georgia A. Popoff!!

The Comstock Review Publishing outstanding poetry since 1986 The Comstock Review has been publishing poetry since 1986 and each year runs an annual poetry contest plus a chapbook contest.

NOW AVAILABLE - NEW WORK
FROM OUR 2015 CHAPBOOK WINNER, James K. Zimmerman

I'm pleased to inform you of the publication of my fifth book of poems, "Unbroken Circle, Unending Thread." This may be confusing, since I just sent an email 2 months ago announcing the publication of "Uncertainty," my fourth book of poems.
The poems in “Unbroken Circle, Unending Thread” hew to Mary Oliver’s admonition: “Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” The focus is on the changing seasons and the passage of time – beginning in winter and returning there in an epilogue – with a subtext of attunement to both the subtle joys of experiencing the evolving and revolving of the year and to the sense of loss inherent in the inevitability of impermanence. Embedded in the subconscious of these poems is the centrality of climate change and its disorienting and deleterious effects on all inhabitants – human and otherwise – of planet earth.

If you're interested in purchasing a copy of this book -- or the two that preceded it -- here are links:

Unbroken Circle, Unending Thread

- James K. Zimmerman