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.

Poet, editor

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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.

AARON POOCHIGIAN earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His work has appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry, The Paris Review and POETRY.

A student of the classical and Christian humanist traditions.

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

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.

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

Poet, critic, host of the poetry analysis podcast Versecraft.

Brian Brodeur is the author of four poetry books, most recently *Some Problems with Autobiography* (2023). Recent poems and literary criticism appear in *The Hopkins Review*, *The Hudson Review*, *Pushcart Prize XLIX* (2025), and elsewhere.

Kevin Koch is Professor Emeritus of English from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa,. He is author of four creative nonfiction nature-based books, the most recent of which is "Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature’s Soul in America’s Heartland."

Lawyer, writer

Dana Gioia is a poet and critic. He is the author of “Can Poetry Matter?” and “Poetry as Enchantment.”

Amit Majmudar's translation of and commentary on the Isha Upanishad