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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · 23d

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

New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · Sep 2

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!

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Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Sep 10

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

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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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · Sep 11

Here's a little Arthurian poem by Steve Knepper of @newversereview.bsky.social:

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#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 ...

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 27d

"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...

Poem by Lisa Barnett

Lisa Barnett, "Little Bud, Already"

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

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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

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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 2

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New Verse Review Submission Manager

Submit to New Verse Review. Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · Sep 2

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!

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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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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · Aug 26

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A Review of Rodeo by Sunni Brown Wilkinson

Review by Darlene Young

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · Aug 26

“...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!

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Aug 22

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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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · Aug 22

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A Review of Learning the Secrets of English Verse

Review by Dale Schellenger

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · Aug 22

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!

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Christiana Doucette @doucette515.bsky.social · Aug 19

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!

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · Aug 11

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.

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · Aug 11

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New Verse Review Issue 1.2: Halloween 2024

The Halloween 2024 mini-issue, featuring poetry by Ned Balbo, Jared Carter, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Amit Majmudar, Jennifer Reeser, Erica Reid, Jane Satterfield, Sally Thomas, and others.

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · Aug 11

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.

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International Armenian Literary Alliance @armenianliterary.org · Aug 1

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

A Gnat's Horizon

Brian Brodeur on Brief Lyrics in Meter and Rhyme

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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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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · Jul 27

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Meditations

Meditations [Aurelius, Marcus, Poochigian, Aaron] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Meditations

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

@andrewfrisardi.bsky.social, @chelseamcclellan.bsky.social, @etherealcolburn.bsky.social, @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social, @dacooperpoet.bsky.social, @zinagomezliss.bsky.social

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

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

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New Verse Review Issue 2.3: Summer 2025

The summer 2025 issue of New Verse Review, featuring Amit Majmudar, Shane McCrae, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Alexis Sears, Andrew Frisardi, Rachel Hadas, Sydney Lea.

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