We are happy to announce the new editorial voice of Suz Spearman (she/they). Suz is the Secretary of Kentucky State Poetry Society (KSPS). She is a queer, Appalachian poet who teaches ESL and English at Bluegrass Technical and Community College. She very much enjoys being a part of Kentucky’s robust poetry community in her spare time. She loves being surrounded by green things and silly, English words like petrichor and defenestrate.
Speaking of open windows and things vert and fecund, we are pleased to bring you the Spring 2025 issue of Pegasus, the web journal of KSPS.
Many poets have a special love for autumn because of its melancholic promise of decay, but spring offers its own promises of poetic fodder. Spring brings in the awful burden of the garden, the torturous labor of the yard, the row, the line of verse, and the volta. A generous reminder of the effort required to produce creative fruit, the back-curling endeavor of staying honest. Each year the return to the pain of truth. Poetry, like cultivating nightshades, can keep us oddly tender and calloused. Spring renders us abundant and tired together.
We are here to celebrate this pained becoming. Look at the fruit that results. Take a bite. Delicious.
Your Editors,
Suz Spearman
&
Jon Thrower
Pegasus 