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Daniel Cooper
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Husband & father. Poet & writer
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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:
November 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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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...
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
dacooperpoet.bsky.social
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...
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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rhunedhel.bsky.social
@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/
Hellhound, a poem in alliterative verse by D.A. Cooper
... Cold rain, / cursed and heavy / ceaselessly falls / in this circle of Hell ...
alliteration.net
October 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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rhunedhel.bsky.social
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
Call for Submissions, Issue 8
Submit your alliterative poems to Forgotten Ground Regained by January 1
alliteration.net
October 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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norsebysw.bsky.social
Are your kids texting about the Poetic Edda?
October 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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rhunedhel.bsky.social
New alliterative poem by @dacooperpoet.bsky.social:

www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/bir... #alliterative #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #alliterativeverse
Birding at the Lake - Dialogue Journal
A pod of pelicans    patrols the shore like angels guarding       the gates of heaven.
www.dialoguejournal.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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rhunedhel.bsky.social
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
Hellhound, a poem in alliterative verse by D.A. Cooper
... Cold rain, / cursed and heavy / ceaselessly falls / in this circle of Hell ...
alliteration.net
October 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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rhunedhel.bsky.social
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
Current Issue: Fall 2025
Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse
alliteration.net
October 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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newversereview.bsky.social
Check out New Verse Review's Halloween issue!
www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H...
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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denniswise.bsky.social
Countdown to the next issue of FORGOTTEN GROUND REGAINED begins!
rhunedhel.bsky.social Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 25d
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/
Rise | The North American Anglican
Thick, mist-forged shackles held us in the cave, imprisoned for the crime of losing all. We saw nothing but shadows on the wall— they gamboled and they taunted us. We gave in to the dark. A crushing f...
northamanglican.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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rhunedhel.bsky.social
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/
Rise | The North American Anglican
Thick, mist-forged shackles held us in the cave, imprisoned for the crime of losing all. We saw nothing but shadows on the wall— they gamboled and they taunted us. We gave in to the dark. A crushing f...
northamanglican.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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irreantum.bsky.social
Some good news on old news:
Congratulations to Maria Mortensen Davis! - Irreantum
. Maria Mortensen Davis‘s poem “Living Water“; which appeared in Irreantum 21.1—Mothers, Missionaries,...
irreantum.associationmormonletters.org
October 18, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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newversereview.bsky.social
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:
October 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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thmazing.bsky.social
Public-service announcement: I finally bought a copy because for some unknown reason Amazon is currently selling it for $6.34: amzn.to/4365saW
Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader
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October 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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goldbergwriter.bsky.social
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...
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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rhunedhel.bsky.social
Here's a little Arthurian poem by Steve Knepper of @newversereview.bsky.social:

alliteration.net/poetry/gawain/
#gawain #SirGawain #alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse
Gawain, a poem in alliterative verse by Steve Knepper
A Solomonic sign adorned his shield, / Five tines pentacled on a flaming field. / Five joys our gentle Queen took in her childe, / Five wondrous wounds of Christ in which we're healed ...
alliteration.net
September 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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newversereview.bsky.social
newversereview.substack.com/p/open-for-h...
Open for Halloween Subs/Best of the Net Nominations
Congrats to BoN nominees Sally Thomas, Jenna Le, Midge Goldberg, Steven Searcy, Alice Allan, and T.O. Brandon
newversereview.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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newversereview.bsky.social
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 👇.
September 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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newversereview.bsky.social
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!
September 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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rhunedhel.bsky.social
My take on Beowulf's death.

alliteration.net/poetry/beowu...
Beowulf Lies Dead Beside the Dragon: An Alliterative Verse Translation
With heavy heart the young hero / looked on his beloved lord and found him / lying prone, his life pouring out ...
alliteration.net
August 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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rhunedhel.bsky.social
A poem on meter

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The Sailor's Attempt
an argument in verse
substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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irreantum.bsky.social
Our new issue!

Presenting, Eternities of Cats:
∞ - Irreantum
Irreantum presents a special issue on the re-revelation of polygamy in modern settings. Three awful and wonderful tales by Fillerup, Larson, and Rytting.
irreantum.associationmormonletters.org
July 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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lightpoetrymag.bsky.social
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
July 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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vikkicwrites.bsky.social
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
Rachel Hadas Wire and Vine I’m weeding. But more stubborn than the roots of dandelions or goutweed are the stalks of last year’s morning glories, which have wound themselves around the chicken wire fence much too tightly to be disentangled. That fence, whose function is to separate nature from cultivation, to protect spinach, kale, arugula, lettuce, herbs, has become less a barrier than a trellis. Intimate as lovers, vines now dry have twisted themselves over strands of wire. To extricate them now would feel like vandalism, despoliation of some artifact, and anyway would take too long to do. Those clippers rusting in the barn—but no. They’re too blunt for this purpose. Let it go. Besides, why even try to separate partners inextricably intertwined? Years teach acceptance, which, today, I’m learning, parsing every twist and every turning, boundaries, binary, form and content twinned like vines and wires I cannot unwind.
July 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM