Talk to Me in Long Lines
Mary, Sally Thomas, Steve KnepperA journal for long (preferably over 40 lines) narrative verse and dramatic monologues.
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
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.
Sally Thomas is a writer in the Western Piedmont of North Carolina.
Steven Knepper is the Bruce C. Gottwald, Jr. ’81 Chair for Academic Excellence at Virginia Military Institute. He edits New Verse Review.
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