I'm very happy to have my first Pushcart nomination. Thanks to @rhunedhel.bsky.social at Forgotten Ground Regained!

I'm very happy to have my first Pushcart nomination. Thanks to @rhunedhel.bsky.social at Forgotten Ground Regained!

Forgotten Ground Regained's sixth and final Pushcart nomination for 2025: @dacooperpoet.bsky.social's poem, "Hellhound": alliteration.net/poetry/hellhound/ #alliterative #poetry #Pushcart #Prize #nomination #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoets #PoetsOfBluesky

Also in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, @dacooperpoet.bsky.social's poem "Hellhound", inspired by a scene in Dante's Inferno. It imitates the Norse poetic form fornyrðislag. alliteration.net/poetry/hellhound/ #alliterative #poetry #Dante #inferno #hellhound #alliterative #poetry

Read my review of Midge Goldberg's To Be Opened After My Death @newversereview.bsky.social: newversereview.substack.com/p/a-review-o...

Read my review of Midge Goldberg's To Be Opened After My Death @newversereview.bsky.social: newversereview.substack.com/p/a-review-o...

Today at NVR, @dacooperpoet.bsky.social reviews Midge Goldberg's collection To Be Opened After My Death (Kelsay Books). This one will be of special interest to lovers of light verse! Link below:

New Verse Review is open from November 1 through November 30 for poetry submissions to its winter issue. We'd be honored if you shared your work with us. Full details below:

I recently had two alliterative poems published, one spiritual and one spooky. Thanks to Dialogue and FGR! @dialoguejournal.bsky.social @rhunedhel.bsky.social alliteration.net/poetry/hellh... www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/bir...

I recently had two alliterative poems published, one spiritual and one spooky. Thanks to Dialogue and FGR! @dialoguejournal.bsky.social @rhunedhel.bsky.social alliteration.net/poetry/hellh... www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/bir...

@dacooperpoet.bsky.social's "Hellhound" imitates Norse epic meter (fornyrðislag). 8-line stanzas. Both stresses in odd lines should alliterate with the 1st stress in the next line. Cooper breaks with historic form by allowing a single alliteration in odd lines. alliteration.net/poetry/hellhound/

Now that the current issue is out, here's the next open call for submissions for alliterative poetry. Psalms and meditations ... alliteration.net/info/call-fo... #submissionscall #alliteration #poetrysky #poetrycommunity

Are your kids texting about the Poetic Edda?

New alliterative poem by @dacooperpoet.bsky.social: www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/bir... #alliterative #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #alliterativeverse

Here's @dacooperpoet.bsky.social's Norse-style take on Dante's inferno! Hell may be hard, but the words gotta dance ... alliteration.net/poetry/hellh... #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #BlueSkyPoets #PoetsOfBlueSky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #alliterativeverse #Dante #inferno

Announcing: The Fall, 2025 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, featuring modern English poetry in Norse and Icelandic forms. 17 poems, 3 articles, with loads of info for the curious (& some great poems!) alliteration.net/current-issue/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #BlueSkyPoets

Check out New Verse Review's Halloween issue! www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H...

Countdown to the next issue of FORGOTTEN GROUND REGAINED begins!

To introduce the Fall issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, releasing next Saturday, I'm introducing its authors first. D.A. Cooper is publishing "Hellhound" (based on a scene from Dante's Inferno) in FGR. Previous publications include "Rise" in The North American Anglican: northamanglican.com/rise/

Some good news on old news:

NVR's Halloween edition will launch on Tues, Oct 14. In celebration we are throwing our first ever HALLOWEEN PARTY! On Fri, Oct 17 at 8pm ET we will have a Zoom reading with some of the poets from the issue. We are looking forward to seeing you there! For tickets, please click the link below:

Public-service announcement: I finally bought a copy because for some unknown reason Amazon is currently selling it for $6.34: amzn.to/4365saW

Just wanted to announce that my next book comes out Sept 29. Latter-day Sikh is a biography of my grandpa, Gurcharan Singh Gill, and a reflection on the two beautiful faiths that shaped his life. More here: jamesgoldberg.substack.com/p/latter-day...

Here's a little Arthurian poem by Steve Knepper of @newversereview.bsky.social: alliteration.net/poetry/gawain/ #gawain #SirGawain #alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse

NVR has nominated six poems for this year's Best of the Net. Congratulations to Midge Goldberg, Alice Allan, @stevensearcy.bsky.social, Jenna Le, @tyndallbrandon.bsky.social, and @sallythomasnc.bsky.social! Read their poems 👇.

This is a reminder that NVR opens for submissions to its Halloween mini-issue tomorrow, September 1. Prepare your skeleton sonnets and pumpkin spice pantoums!

My take on Beowulf's death. alliteration.net/poetry/beowu...

A poem on meter substack.com/app-link/pos...

Our new issue! Presenting, Eternities of Cats:

What does Norse mythology have to do with the TSA? Read on for the answer... then click link in thread for all 11 Poems of the Week on the Epstein list, AI-written sermons, befuddled Brits & more. #humor #comedy #satire #limericks #poetry #poetrycommunity #lightverse #funnypoems #parody #Thor #TSA

Read this poem earlier and loved its clarity and distinct imagery...which of course leave an understated melancholia. (Often, those are the most lasting). 'Wire and Vine' by Rachel Hadas in the Summer issue of New Verse Review ❤️ www.newversereview.com/2-3-rachel-h... #poetry #writingcommunity

"There was a time when your cheerful spirit burbled in every brook and stream, full of music & life." #TodaysPoem #poetry Zayandehrood: A Ghazal by Niloufar Behrooz (2025 @newversereview.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/3ek7ztv7

Just spent a few days in the Vermont woods, off-grid, no running water, but amazingly beautiful, and felt again what I tried to express in my triple-meter sonnet in the new issue of @newversereview.bsky.social:

www.newversereview.com/2-3-carla-sc... Honored to have a #poem curated @newversereview.bsky.social along with so many other wonderful #poems. Check it out. #poetry #poetrycommunity

I try to write poems. I’m working on it. And I’m very grateful to everybody at @newversereview.bsky.social, especially Steve Knepper and Mary Grace Mangano, for publishing, alongside many rad poems, this poem. I tried. I worked on it. And I hope you like it. www.newversereview.com/2-3-shane-mc...

Our Summer 2025 issue is available! A striking cover by Rob McDonald and poems by @angelaodonnellpoet.bsky.social, @carlasarett.bsky.social, @victoriamoul.bsky.social, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, @azforeman.bsky.social, @akasomeguy.bsky.social, and more!

I’m in there, so please read it!

The July links round-up is now live at NVR—pastoral vs. bucolic, clodhopping Americans, the French sublime, and more. Featuring: @zinagomezliss.bsky.social @dacooperpoet.bsky.social @claudiagary.bsky.social @amitmajmudar.bsky.social @hudsonreview.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social

Now up at NVR, @maryanncorbett.bsky.social reviews The Great Game: Essays on Poetics (@acrebooks.bsky.social) by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social. "The other great sources of poetry that Majmudar insists on are two that some may think of as contradictory: science and religion."

Today, editor Steve Knepper, points out some limits of “Selected Poems” volumes by way of two excellent instances of the genre—This Afterlife by @aestallings.bsky.social and New Selected Poems by Les Murray.

Now up at NVR: a tour-de-force survey of the brief lyric in American poetry by Brian Brodeur. Among those discussed are Robert Hayden, James Merrill, Kay Ryan, Frederick Seidel, Rhina Espaillat, George David Clark, Caki Wilkinson, and Armen Davoudian.

I’m honored to be featured in this issue!

I'm happy to share this new issue of New Verse Review and grateful that I had the opportunity to help bring it into the world. Thanks @newversereview.bsky.social!

I'm honored to release a special issue featuring the poetry grads of the MFA program of University of St Thomas, Houston. This issue is edited by @dacooperpoet.bsky.social and Mary Grace Mangano. Read work by @jwyoung.bsky.social, @tnichollsmith.bsky.social, @jonjosephbishop.bsky.social, and others.

Summer is coming, and I'm very happy to share my translation of a summer-themed sonnet by the Milanese poet Carlo Porta. Thanks to Illuminations of the Fantastic! www.illuminationsfantastic.com/the-sonnet-c...

For the Pulp Literature Issue 45 poetry round-up, please enjoy these poems steeped in myth by Dan MacIsaac and DA Cooper. pulpliterature.com/its-time-for... #bookworm #bookish #booknerd #poetry #newpoetry #poetsofinstagram

Summer is coming, and I'm very happy to share my translation of a summer-themed sonnet by the Milanese poet Carlo Porta. Thanks to Illuminations of the Fantastic! www.illuminationsfantastic.com/the-sonnet-c...

NEW POETRY PROMPT www.texaspoetryassignment.org/assignments/... #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #lists