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James Goldberg @goldbergwriter.bsky.social · 23d

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...

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · Sep 11

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

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · Sep 3

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 👇.

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · Sep 1

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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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

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Daniel Cooper @dacooperpoet.bsky.social · Aug 8

Will it also be published in the US?

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · Aug 2

A poem on meter

substack.com/app-link/pos...

The Sailor's Attempt

an argument in verse

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Irreantum @irreantum.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

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Light @lightpoetrymag.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · Jul 25

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.

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · Jul 26

"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

Poem by Niloufar Behrooz

Niloufar Behrooz, "Zayandehrood"

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · Jul 25

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:

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Carla Schwartz @cb99videos.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

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Shane McCrae @akasomeguy.bsky.social · Jul 23

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...

Poem by Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae, "James the Brother of Jesus Confronts His Heavenly Double at the Gates"

www.newversereview.com

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · Jul 28

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!

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Theric Jepson @thmazing.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Thomist Poet @thomistpoet.bsky.social · Jun 28

I’m in there, so please read it!

New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · May 8

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.

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · Jul 14

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

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · May 21

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."

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · Jun 25

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.

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · Jun 20

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.

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Jon Bishop @jonjosephbishop.bsky.social · May 8

I’m honored to be featured in this issue!

New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · May 8

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.

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Daniel Cooper @dacooperpoet.bsky.social · May 8

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!

New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · May 8

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.

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · May 8

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.

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