About New Verse Review
Editor: Steven Knepper
Advisory Board:
Boris Dralyuk
Claudia Gary
A.M. Juster
Amit Majmudar
Sally Thomas
Marly Youmans
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New Verse Review: A Journal of Lyric and Narrative Poetry is published twice yearly, in summer and winter, with occasional features. Subscribe below and each new issue will be delivered to your inbox.
NVR features work that renews the ancient affinities among poetry, song, and story. While open to well-crafted free verse, its focus is lyric and narrative poetry written in meter. Some journals advise submitters to stay away from meter, rhyme, and even alliteration. NVR welcomes them. That said, the journal is interested in living form with a healthy pulse, not the mummified.
Who are some of the editor’s favorites in the poetic pantheon from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Claude McKay, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robinson Jeffers, Anne Spencer, H.D., Patrick Kavanagh, Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, W.H. Auden, Kathleen Raine, Robert Hayden, James Dickey, N. Scott Momaday, Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall, Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, Denise Levertov, Les Murray, Fred Chappell, and Wilmer Mills.
New Verse Review is edited by Steven Knepper, who teaches in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at Virginia Military Institute. NVR is a personal endeavor of Knepper’s, though, and is not affiliated with VMI. Nor are the members of the advisory board responsible for editorial decisions.
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