It’s October, Friends.

Note: This poem is new but adapted from a longer piece that is part of a project I’ve been working on with another poet.

The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.

Pauletta Hansel, poet, memoirist, teacher, and the first poet laureate of Cincinnati, celebrates the release of her latest book, Understory: A Women's History of Appalachia.. Event starts at November ...

(First published in Lake Effect: An International Literary Journal, Spring 2016.)

a fiction retrospective

Here are three poems from my 2020 poetry collection How to See the World, published by Bottom Dog Press as part of their Harmony Series. I started writing the poems in March of that year, as a way to ...

"...to me, silence is the best thing for that." —Andreas Mehringer

NEW: Click author’s NAME (not photo) to jump to their section or SCROLL to read the issue in its entirety. SUMMER 2026 CURATORHAYLEY MITCHELL HAUGEN no poems in this issue VENUS IN HEAT: CHAR…

The apples fell early that year, small and hard as marbles underfoot.

...a womb, if you will, inside the Great Mother, who presents Herself in so many forms.

...a womb, if you will, inside the Great Mother, who presents Herself in so many forms.

by Paula J.

and teetering into the season where everything's best left to itself

It’s been harder and harder to sleep lately and today I remembered about the pigs you used to haul, how, running mostly on caffeine and keeping two different logs, you one day finally nodded off, full...

It’s been harder and harder to sleep lately and today I remembered about the pigs you used to haul, how, running mostly on caffeine and keeping two different logs, you one day finally nodded off, full...

It’s been harder and harder to sleep lately and today I remembered about the pigs you used to haul, how, running mostly on caffeine and keeping two different logs, you one day finally nodded off, full...

On Encountering What We Fear

after Mary Oliver

Here in Ohio, six reported Bigfoot sightings in the last five days.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.

I can’t remember the name of my high school typing teacher, but today she comes back to me. That class.

the ekphrastic review: visual art and writing, ekphrastic poetry, ekphrastic flash fiction, ekphrastic prose, ekphrastic essays, writing and literature responding to visual art

By Cooper Dart (with thanks to Sol Lewitt) Cooper Dart This past winter, during the final year of my MFA program, I took a class on poetics, and the only thing we as a course could agree upon at th…

We were doomed and we knew it.

A new anthology of poems, including one that reflects on the weight of a whale, gathers voices from science, the arts, and Indigenous communities to create a portrait of nature in America.