Some real life NVR community at Sally Thomas's recent reading at Virginia Military Institute--Sally Thomas, Mattie Quesenberry Smith (current VA poet laureate), and J.S. Absher. All three have published great poems with New Verse Review!

A sequential drawing, using primary and secondary coloured pencils on Japanese paper, underlining all the occurrences of the words color and colors found in Interaction of Color by Josef Albers.

So happy for Henry Wise!

As of June 10, HOLY CITY is out in paperback. Get a 15% discount by using promo code HOLYCITY at bookshop.org/p/books/holy-c… Thanks y’all!

Mighty good. Henry Wise Steven Knepper

📰Academic News from Post: English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies (ERHS) recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of the implementation of a revised English curriculum that broke disciplinary boundaries & integrated the study of literature, philosophy, oral and written

The honor is all mine. New Verse Review has been outstanding from the very first issue. I hope you’ll take a look inside. You will not be disappointed!

A friend reminded me that today is the birthday of the great Larry Brown. He died 20 years ago. Here’s my favorite from a visit to make photographs @ Tula for my series NATIVE GROUND in 2008. He loved that boat, that place. Recommend his essay “Shack” if you want to know why.

That's quite a sentence, Mr James: “When you’re finished, squeezed dry and used up and you think the sack’s empty, you’re still appealed to, you still get touches and thrills, the idea springs up—out of the lap of the actual—and shows you there’s always something to be done."

What an honor to have my photograph on the cover of one of my favorite journals. My father built that birdhouse and hung it in the middle of a field in Temperance Hill, SC, where the sky is always just about that blue. Thanks again New Verse Review

"I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both." Flannery O'Connor

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

As autumn approaches, NVR looks back at the summer issue. Check out a sonnet sampler featuring Amit Majmudar, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell (Angela Alaimo O'Donnell), M.I. Devine (M.I. Devine), Jesse Graves, Betzi Richardson, Midge Goldberg, Laura Wang, and David Rosenthal. Poems ⬇️.

Snoopy was adopted by Charlie Brown on October 10, 1950, from the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, after Snoopy had been bought by someone else but was returned.

“Online, we’re a nation of factions. In parking lots and at picnic tables, we’re a nation of encounters.” magazine.atavist.com/2025/america-i…

I am honored to be giving the Faith and Imagination (Faith and Imagination Institute) lecture at BYU later this month. I can't wait to visit with my good friend Matthew Wickman and to talk about literary epiphanies. humanitiescenter.byu.edu/events/faith-i…