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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.

  • Mary

    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.

  • Zara Raab
  • Jon Bishop

    I'm a poet and writer from New England.

  • Christian Lingner

    I am a teacher, poet, and songwriter living in Nashville, TN.

  • 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.

  • Carla Sarett

    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

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

  • 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).

  • Alice Allan

    Ratbag.

  • 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.

  • Sunil Iyengar

    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

    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.

  • Tamarah Rockwood

    Poet, publisher, woolgathering champion.

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