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Poetry
Amit Majmudar, “The Only Holy War” and “The Great American Novel”
A.Z. Foreman, “Arma Virumque”
Daniel Galef, “Fabergé to Nicholas”
Erica Reid, “Gyotaku”
Shane McCrae, “James the Brother of Jesus Confronts His Heavenly Double at the Gates”
Darlene Young, “To Hope”
M.I. Devine, “Everyone Says I Look Like Brad Pitt”
Suzanne M. Yuskiw, “Fragment”
Carla Sarett, “Don’t Worry Baby”
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, “Paradiso,” “The View from Childhood,” and “The Pershing Hotel”
Karen D’Anselmi, “Tilt-A-Whirl”
Anna Lewis, “My Country”
Zina Gomez-Liss, “The Gamblers”
Shalmi Barman, “Souvenirs”
Katie Beswick, “Three Teenage Girls: 1997”
A.A. Gunther, “Song of the Mall Rats”
J.M. Jordan, “Overheard Whisper from a Backyard Fort”
Jesse Graves, “Two Stones”
Carla Schwartz, “Playing blind man’s bluff I tripped on a sprinkler and got”
T.O. Brandon, “Constriction: A Manifesto”
Alexis Sears, “When the Woman at Chase Bank Suspects I’m a Criminal”
Leslie Williams, “The Ring”
Betzi Richardson, “Double Play”
Midge Goldberg, “To the Young Woman in the Restroom at the Wedding”
Christopher J. Scalia, “Singing Along to Billy Joel at My Roommate’s First Wedding” and “River Run”
Sunil Iyengar, “The Omission”
Tamarah Rockwood, “Calypso Praying in the Produce Section”
Carter Davis Johnson, “Pelican”
Niloufar Behrooz, “Zayandehrood: A Ghazal”
Daniel Fitzpatrick, “Tackle”
Isabella Hsu, “The King of Los Angeles County”
Victoria Moul, “I.m. Andrew, October 2024”
J.S. Absher, “A Life: The Topical Index”
Laura Wang, “Sick Day’s Delirium”
James Matthew Wilson, “Last Words for Jason”
Tuhin Bhowal, “Hallucinations at Hell’s Cliff”
Jonathan Chibuike Ukah, “The Year My Wife Arrived”
Brian Palmer, “Gibbous”
Andrew Frisardi, “I”
Eric Colburn, “The Buddha doesn’t lie” and “Nothing in Nature”
Liv Ross, “An Annihilation of the Self”
Rachel Hadas, “Wire and Vine”
Devon Balwit, “Becoming”
Joshua Coben, “Bust”
Andrew Lustig, “The Owl is Wise:”
Ted Charnley, “Baltimore Cats”
Daniel Patrick Sheehan, “Groundhogs”
Sarah Ashbach, “Leaves Below Giants”
Chelsea McClellan, “One Subjective Day”
John Talbot, “Envieth Not” and “Epitaph of Menophilos”
Betsy Howard, “Full Term, Mid-July”
Lisa Barnett, “Little Bud, Unready”
Katherine Spadaro, “When He Created You”
Richard Newman, “Madonna with Tattooed Face”
David Rosenthal, “Chagall’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1939”
Timothy Kleiser, “Lost John”
Jared Carter, “Shelter” and “Petoskey”
Blake Campbell, “Crystal-hunting”
Sydney Lea, “Eclipses” and “Her Husband Told Me”
Jennifer Reeser, “The Legend of Leech Place”
Cover photograph courtesy of Rob McDonald
ISSN: 3068-1766
Issue Edited by Steven Knepper, Mary Grace Mangano, and D.A. Cooper
New Verse Review 2.3: Summer 2025
James Owens, a translation from the French of “The Unhappy Ones” by Louise Ackermann
Kevin Rainbow, a translation from the Russian of “Love” by
Translations
Excerpt from Longer Works
David J. Rothman, four sonnets from a sequence
Criticism
M.I. Devine, “A Bomb in a Cathedral”
Claudia Gary, “The Dance of a Breeze: Auditory Imagery in Rhina P. Espaillat’s Sonnet ‘As If Some Jaded Reader’”
Susan Delaney Spear, “Ad Fontes : Measure By Measure”
Brian Brodeur, “A Gnat’s Horizon: On Brief Lyrics in Meter and Rhyme”