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.

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.

New Romantic Poet from Reno NV. Teacher of English and Journalism. Interested in poetics and philosophy.

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.

Writer/Anthropologist

Writer of poetry, essays, reviews, and memoirs. Gallivanter.

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.

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

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.)

Poetry collection: Below the Brightness (Solum Press, 2024). Poems in Southern Poetry Review, Commonweal, First Things, New Verse Review, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Blue Unicorn, Atlanta Review, and elsewhere.

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, poetry, and indigenous issues.

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.

Ratbag.

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.

Publisher of The Sonneteer. Founder of QuickMuse.