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.

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

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.

Lawyer, writer

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

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

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.

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.

A student of the classical and Christian humanist traditions.

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.

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.

Poet from the 215. Author of "The Rise of the COVFEFE" and "From the Back Porch of a War" (2020 & 2024 Parnilis Media)

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

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."