
New Verse Review provides a home to contemporary work that renews the ancient affinities among poetry, song, and story.
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If there is one piece of writing advice that stays with me from high school English class, it is show, don’t tell. Looking back, no matter what type of assignment was in question—whether it was an essay, story, or poem—my tea...
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The teasing dedication in Matthew Buckley Smith’s The Soft Black Stars, winner of the 2025 Rattl...
Carl Spitzweg, The Poor Poet, via Wikipedia
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My last book, a novel in verse, came out a year ago. It was a strange book to send into the world: on the one hand, I aimed to write a book t...
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I will admit it: I’m late to the Baron Wormser Fan Club. James Baldwin Smoking a Cigarette and Other Poems was published...
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At first, I thought I was opening a poetry book with pastoral poems. And then I thought I was read...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Steven Knepper is the Bruce C. Gottwald, Jr. ’81 Chair for Academic Excellence at Virginia Military Institute. He edits New Verse Review.
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.
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.)
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.
Writer and poet from Havertown, PA. Social Media Editor at Dappled Things, founding editor and editor-in-chief of Talk to Me in Long Lines: A Journal of Long(ish) Narrative Verse and Dramatic Monologues, Deputy Editor at Wiseblood Books.
Ethan McGuire is a writer, computer scientist, author of ‘Songs for Christmas’ & 'Apocalypse Dance,’ & editor at ‘New Verse Review,’ ‘Tar River Poetry,’ & ‘Literary Matters.’
Publisher of The Sonneteer. Founder of QuickMuse.
Carla Sarett writes fiction, poetry and, occasionally, essays. PhD from University of Pennsylvania. Nom: Best American Essays, Pushcart, Best of Net, Best Microfictions. For more: http://carlasarett.com
Poet, reviewer, occasional essayist. Posts "The Golden Mean - A Limited Series" on mid-length poems, chiefly narrative.
Ratbag.
Tamara Nicholl-Smith is a poet and workshop leader. Her debut collection, Saints of Sleeping and Waking, is forthcoming from Wiseblood Books. Her poems have appeared on Albuquerque city bus panels, a parking meter, and in literary journals.
Stephen Hoyle manages the Writing Center at the Virginia Military Institute, where he also teaches composition and literature courses. He writes from the Shenandoah Valley, his lifelong home. He holds an M.A. from the University of Virginia.
Susan Spear is the author of two collections of poetry: Beyond All Bearing and On Earth...winner of an ALBA for poetry/religious. Spear is the co-author of Learning the Secrets of English Verse, with David J. Rothman.
Elijah Perseus Blumov is a poet, critic, and host of the poetry analysis podcast Versecraft.
D.A. Cooper is a poet and writer from Houston, TX.
New Romantic Poet from Reno NV. Teacher of English and Journalism. Interested in poetics and philosophy.
Poet, writer, & teacher | "Be joyful though you have considered all the facts." |Soli Deo Gloria|
Poet, publisher, woolgathering champion.
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