Editors’ Cadralore

To our fellow poets and cadralor enthusiasts, welcome to Gleam. We hope you are inspired to try your hand at this new form, and because it is so new, we will post links to cadralore of our own, poems we have published in other journals, in each issue. Our intent is to offer you cadralore that both we at Gleam and editors of other poetry journals have found to be highly successful in embodying this form, and we hope that reading them will help you get a deeper, richer sense of what cadralore are, what they do, and what makes a cadralor a cadralor. Included in Issue 3 are cadralore from current editors, Lauren Scharhag, “Baby’s Breath,” and Lori Howe, “Refraction,” “Ripening,” and “Electromagnetism and Other Holy Waves, for Michael Faraday,” and from past editors, Scott Ferry, “eel,” and “ichor / eschar” and Jon Yungkans, “Us,” and “Cadralor for Rachael.” Thanks for reading. We hope to see submissions of your own fine cadralore with future upcoming issues.

Published Cadralor

Magnetoreception

By Lori Howe

Published by MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature

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Irridophores

By Lori Howe

Published in Verse Virtual, An Online Community Journal of Poetry

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Refraction

By Lori Howe

Published by MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature

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Ripening

By Lori Howe

Published by MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature

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Electromagnetisms and Other Holy Waves

for Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

By Lori Howe

Published in Verse Virtual, An Online Community Journal of Poetry

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Trypophobia

By Lauren Scharhag

Published in The Dope Fiend Daily, January 2022

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Home

By Lauren Scharhag

Published in Lucifer’s Retreat, December 2021

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St. Teresa’s Day

By Lauren Scharhag

Published in The Rye Whiskey Review, October, 2021

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Theoxenia

By Lauren Scharhag

Published in Libretto, Issue 5 (Nigeria), June 2021

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Baby’s Breath

By Lauren Scharhag

Published in Hole in the Head re:View

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eel

By Scott Ferry

Published by MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature

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ichor / eschar

By Scott Ferry

Published by MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature

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Us

based on a painting by Ismael Nery

By Jon Yungkans

Published in The Ekphrastic Review

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Cadralor for Rachael

By Jon Yungkans

Published by MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature

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About Us

Gleam is a journal wholly devoted to the new poetic form, the cadralor, created by Gleam’s founding co-editors, Lori Howe and Christopher Cadra. The cadralor consists of five short, unrelated, highly-visual stanzas.

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Get In Touch

If you are interested in submitting your own cadralor poem or if you have questions, you can reach out to our Gleam email. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Meet the Editors

The cadralor was co-created by:
• Lori Howe, Editor in Chief
• Christopher Cadra, Senior Editor

Meet the Editors