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Check out New Verse Review's Halloween issue!
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Today at NVR, we're honored to share Paul J. Pastor's remembrance of the brilliant poet, critic, and philosopher Frederick Turner. Link below.
"the world gets people like Fred Turner only, well, once.... he was #1 of a series of 1."
"the world gets people like Fred Turner only, well, once.... he was #1 of a series of 1."
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Today at NVR, we're honored to share Paul J. Pastor's remembrance of the brilliant poet, critic, and philosopher Frederick Turner. Link below.
"the world gets people like Fred Turner only, well, once.... he was #1 of a series of 1."
"the world gets people like Fred Turner only, well, once.... he was #1 of a series of 1."
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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
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:
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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
www.newversereview.com/2-3-j-m-jordan
November 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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
www.newversereview.com/2-3-j-m-jordan
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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
www.newversereview.com/2-2-jeff-young #alliterative #poem #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets #PoetsOfBlueSky #alliterativeverse
Poems by Jeff Young
Jeff Young, "John the Baptist of Mardi Gras" and "Burial"
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November 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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
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:
November 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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:
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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...
@dialoguejournal.bsky.social @rhunedhel.bsky.social
alliteration.net/poetry/hellh...
www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/bir...
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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...
@dialoguejournal.bsky.social @rhunedhel.bsky.social
alliteration.net/poetry/hellh...
www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/bir...
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Check out New Verse Review's Halloween issue!
www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H...
www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H...
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Check out New Verse Review's Halloween issue!
www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H...
www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H...
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New alliterative poem by @dacooperpoet.bsky.social:
www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/bir... #alliterative #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #alliterativeverse
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.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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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
alliteration.net/current-issue/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #BlueSkyPoets
Current Issue: Fall 2025
Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse
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October 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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
alliteration.net/current-issue/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #BlueSkyPoets
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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...
www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H...
October 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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...
www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H...
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Check out New Verse Review's Halloween issue!
www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H...
www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H...
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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:
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
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:
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:
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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!
Please read this haunting (in the best way) issue!
New Verse Review Halloween 2025 Issue
Poems by Marly Youmans, Katie Hartsock, Vince Gotera, Meredith Bergmann, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Helena Feder, John Poch, Jared Carter, and others
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October 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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!
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:
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
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:
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!
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!
Many thanks to Paul Millan for the uncanny photograph!
September 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Just a reminder, today is the last day to submit to NVR's Halloween issue!
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I was honored to receive my first Best of the Net nomination from the fabulous journal New Verse Review!
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 👇.
Read their poems 👇.
September 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I was honored to receive my first Best of the Net nomination from the fabulous journal New Verse Review!
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Here's a little Arthurian poem by Steve Knepper of @newversereview.bsky.social:
alliteration.net/poetry/gawain/
#gawain #SirGawain #alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse
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
Here's a little Arthurian poem by Steve Knepper of @newversereview.bsky.social:
alliteration.net/poetry/gawain/
#gawain #SirGawain #alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse
alliteration.net/poetry/gawain/
#gawain #SirGawain #alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse
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"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...
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...
Poem by Lisa Barnett
Lisa Barnett, "Little Bud, Already"
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September 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"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...
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 👇.
Read their poems 👇.
September 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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 👇.
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!
Many thanks to Paul Millan for the uncanny photograph!
September 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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!
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!
September 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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!
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“...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!
Thanks to Darlene Young and @newversereview.bsky.social for the wonderful review of Sunni Brown Wilkinson’s RODEO!
August 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“...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!
Thanks to Darlene Young and @newversereview.bsky.social for the wonderful review of Sunni Brown Wilkinson’s RODEO!
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Who doesn’t like a good riddle? Here is a classic, newly translated by Leslie Monsour: nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/the-ultima...
The Ultimate Riddle
A poem by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Leslie Monsour
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August 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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!
August 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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!