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New Verse Review provides a home to contemporary work that renews the ancient affinities among poetry, song, and story.

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  • Steve Knepper

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

  • Zara Raab
  • Jason Guriel

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

  • Jon Bishop

    I'm a poet and writer from New England.

  • Zina Gomez-Liss

    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.

  • Katy Carl

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

  • Ethan McGuire

    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.

  • Maryann Corbett

    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.)

  • Elijah Perseus Blumov

    Elijah Perseus Blumov is a poet, critic, and host of the poetry analysis podcast Versecraft.

  • Marie Burdett

    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

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

  • Daniel Cowper

    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.

  • Benjamin Myers

    Director of the OBU Great Books Honors Program. Poet and writer. Recent books: The Family Book of Martyrs (poems) and An Invitation to the Liberal Arts (nonfiction).

  • Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

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

  • Mary Grace Mangano

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

  • Alex Rettie

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

  • Sarah Ashbach

    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

    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.

  • Clarence Caddell

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

  • Donald Mace Williams

    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.

  • James Feichthaler

    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

    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.

  • Ned Balbo

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

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