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:

J.M. Jordan recently published "Overheard Whisper from a Backyard Fort", a poem in half-lines, in @newversereview.bsky.social: www.newversereview.com/2-3-j-m-jordan

And finally, Jeffrey Young recently published the alliterative poem "Burial" in @newversereview.bsky.social. www.newversereview.com/2-2-jeff-young #alliterative #poem #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets #PoetsOfBlueSky #alliterativeverse

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...

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

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

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

Delighted to have a poem in this wonderful new Halloween issue of NEW VERSE REVIEW

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

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:

My poem "It is Apple-Picking Season & You Cannot Help" appears in the Halloween issue of @newversereview.bsky.social! I am so honored the editors chose this poem: www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H... Please read this haunting (in the best way) issue!

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:

Just a reminder, today is the last day to submit to NVR's Halloween issue!

I was honored to receive my first Best of the Net nomination from the fabulous journal New Verse Review!

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

"to open eyes and fists at one day old is more than you signed up for." #TodaysPoem #poetry Little Bud, Unready by Lisa Barnett (2025 @newversereview.bsky.social) www.newversereview.com/2-3-lisa-bar...

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 👇.

New Verse Review is now open to submissions to its Halloween mini-issue! Submit through our @duosuma.com platform 👇. The submission window closes on September 19. Many thanks to Paul Millan for the uncanny photograph!

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!

“...the book comes to feel like the hand-hold (the clench, the caress) of a bereft mother trying to honor her pain, yes, but also her enduring love of the world." Thanks to Darlene Young and @newversereview.bsky.social for the wonderful review of Sunni Brown Wilkinson’s RODEO!

Who doesn’t like a good riddle? Here is a classic, newly translated by Leslie Monsour: nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/the-ultima...

Now up at NVR, Dale Schellenger reviews a new textbook by Susan Delaney Spear and David Rothman that takes students through the history of English Verse, teaching them how to write in each of its major meters and forms. Check it out!

Oh hey! @newversereview.bsky.social just published Dale’s review of the book! I’m one of the group he mentions working through the exercises together. Highly recommend!

NVR opens for subs to its Halloween mini-issue on Sept 1. Send up to 5 creepy, gothic, and/or autumnal poems. Poems can also be about the fall season and its holidays: Halloween, All Saints, Día de los Muertos. Here's last year's cover. Tell us which poems you like best! Link to the issue below.

NVR opens for subs to its Halloween mini-issue on Sept 1. Send up to 5 creepy, gothic, and/or autumnal poems. Poems can also be about the fall season and its holidays: Halloween, All Saints, Día de los Muertos. Here's last year's cover. Tell us which poems you like best! Link to the issue below.

If you're into literary analysis, don’t miss this @newversereview.bsky.social essay on the evolution of lyric poetry. 📚 IALA member Armen Davoudian is featured with poems from The Palace of Forty Pillars as examples of poetic mastery! Read here: bit.ly/3U6zIhd

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!

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

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 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...

Hey, I have a poem out today! Just a double-ekphrastic Elizabethan love sonnet. 🤷‍♂️ Thanks to Steve Knepper and @newversereview.bsky.social for giving it a proper home.

While you’re there, check out the rest of the issue. @newversereview.bsky.social features some of the best contemporary poets writing in meter and rhyme.

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

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:

"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

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

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

Very much enjoyed this--and wish I could alter the Selected accordingly!:

I’m in there, so please read it!

The first episode of the #ThomistPoets Book Club is now available! We are discussing Von Balthasar's influential book of theological aesthetics, "The Glory of the Lord." youtu.be/a-bVI1BeRVc?...

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.

Recently released on @newversereview.bsky.social: Brian Brodeur, "A Gnat's Horizon: Brian Brodeur on Brief Lyrics in Meter and Rhyme" newversereview.substack.com/p/a-gnats-ho...

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.

NVR is open for poetry submissions to its summer issue for just a few more days. The window closes on Monday, June 23. We’d be honored if you shared your work with us!

Thinking about the senses again... remembering this cento pantoum, "Ear Sickness," composed only of lines from David Lynch's Blue Velvet, up at @newversereview.bsky.social newversereview.substack.com/p/a-diner-fo...

Many thanks to @carlasarett.bsky.social--a fine poet in her own right--for the searching & thoughtful interview published today in @newversereview.bsky.social. Thank you too to editor Steven Knepper for giving space in NVR's pages to my views about the writing process. substack.com/home/post/p-...