New Verse Review: A Journal of Lyric and Narrative Poetry

Steven Knepper is the Bruce C. Gottwald, Jr. ’81 Chair for Academic Excellence at Virginia Military Institute. He edits New Verse Review.

Professor of Philosophy at MIT; Writer of Poetry at Home.

Writer. Fan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe, and Mourn, On Browsing, The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles, Forgotten Work, et al.

I'm a poet and writer from New England.

Zina Gomez-Liss is the deputy editor at New Verse Review and an MFA candidate at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. Her writing can be found on her Substack, The Beauty of Things. She lives in Boston, MA with her husband and five children.

Novelist, editor, essayist, & quiet girl. Read me for fiction & meditations; literary culture; contemplative realism. Opinions expressed here are mine unless otherwise specified.

Ethan McGuire is a writer, computer scientist, author of Songs for Christmas, Apocalypse Dance, & Ozark Son, & editor at New Verse Review, Tar River Poetry, & Literary Matters.

Pedant. (Also the author of six books of poems, with a seventh forthcoming. Winner of a couple of prizes. Fond of mouthing off about other people's poems.)

Marie Burdett is a poet, gardener, and MFA student at the University of St. Thomas. She authors a Substack, the Foraged Fruit, about nature, agriculture, and poetry.

D.A. Cooper is a poet and writer from Houston, TX.

Daniel Cowper is the author of Grotesque Tenderness (MQUP) and The God of Doors (winner of the Frog Hollow Press chapbook contest). A verse novel, Kingdom of the Clock, will appear April 2025. He lives on an island off the west coast of Canada.

Poet, writer, professor, teacher at Fordham University in New York City

Poet, writer, & teacher | "Be joyful though you have considered all the facts." |Soli Deo Gloria|

Canadian poet. EIC of online poetry journal Poems for Persons of Interest.

Sarah lives in Ohio with her husband Jonathan, who teaches politics, and her tabby cat Turquoise, who practices politics by reigning over mice and groundhogs. Her work has appeared in The New Lyre, The New Verse Review, and Dappled Things.

Christopher Honey is the founder of the Thomist Poets Reading Series (https://www.christopher-honey.com/event-list) and his writings have appeared in such publications as the Rumpus, America, Poetry South, and the New Verse Review.

Elena Childress is a poet and playwright living in Oklahoma. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in New Verse Review, New Lyre, Front Porch Republic, and Vita Poetica.

Poet and critic, editor of The Borough: A Journal of Poetry, formalist and social crediter

As a nonagenarian and not-quite-entirely retired writer, I admire Keillor's ability to keep on writing copiously and entertainingly, age and heart problems notwithstanding.

Poet from the 215. Author of "The Rise of the COVFEFE" and "From the Back Porch of a War" (2020 & 2024 Parnilis Media)

Alexis Sears is the author of Out of Order, winner of the 2021 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, Poetry by the Sea Book Award: Best Book of 2022, and LA Times Book Prize nominee. Her work appears in Best American Poetry and elsewhere. She lives in LA.

Award-winning poet and the author of six books, most recently The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots (New Criterion Prize).