
New Verse Review provides a home to contemporary work that renews the ancient affinities among poetry, song, and story.
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There are moments in this life that spark awakenings of a certain divine simplicity when we are almost forced to suppose that the universe, for some unfathomable reason, was beholden to us al...
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The title of Susan McLean’s newest book, Daylight Losing Time, suggests a somber theme, something to do with mortality. The book does...
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A version of this essay was first presented at the 2026 AWP Conference as part of the panel, “Twist!: New Directions for Teaching Poetic Turns.”
Elizabeth Bishop famously said, “there’s nothing more embarrassing than being a...
This spring, New Verse Review published a special mini-issue devoted to translations from around the world. The issue, edited by and , gathers translations into English from 19 languages, including Armenian, Swahili, Polish, Japanese, and...
Comics by Jason Guriel on Bristol board
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The Final Childhood is a novel-in-progress composed of rhyming couplets, with comic strips between each chapter. The book is set in the same world as its predecessors, Forgotten Work (...
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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.
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.
I am a teacher, poet, and songwriter living in Nashville, TN.
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.
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
Elijah Perseus Blumov is a poet, critic, and host of the poetry analysis podcast Versecraft.
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.
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).
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.
Poet, reviewer, occasional essayist. Posts "The Golden Mean - A Limited Series" on mid-length poems, chiefly narrative. Also posts “And I Quote,” deep cuts from literary nonfiction.
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.
Poet, publisher, woolgathering champion.
Poet and critic, editor of The Borough: A Journal of Poetry, formalist and social crediter
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