New Verse Review 3.1: Winter 2026

I.

Stephen Kampa, "Who Only Stand and Wait"

Maya Venters, "Clockwork"

Jared Carter, "Time," "Space," "Students," and "Snowfall"

Henry Hart, "My Grandfather's Ice House"

Marie Burdett, "Snowdrops"

Sydney Lea, "December Incident"

Erin Murphy, "Ella"

David Leightty, "The Moonbow of Cumberland River Falls" and "Loving v. Virginia"

Devon Balwit, "Kabloona"

Mary Giudice, "Winter Solstice With Grapefruit"

Katie Dozier, "New Year"

Richard Wakefield, "Fence Mending"

Benjamin Myers, "Retirement"

James Matthew Wilson, "Good Friday"

Jane Zwart, "Truth Windows"

Lenore M. Myers, "At the Window"

II.

Ange Mlinko, "The 'Tragic' Symphony" and "Postcards from the Karpas Peninsula, 2010"

Laura Reece Hogan, "Trail of Many Pools"

Sarah Cortez, "Black and White Photograph, Sophia Loren"

Maria Grech Ganado, "Strangers"

Alice Allan, "Verlaine, years later"

Cameron Clark, "Blank-Verse Sonnet Beginning with a Line & a Half of Shakespeare"

Timothy Sandefur, "Undelivered Letters"

Alaga Unwomanumu, "Something"

Kimberly Gibson-Tran, "Mother"

Caleb Hill, "My Younger Brother Doing Chores"

Cecil Morris, "This Morning's Podcast Teaches Me about the Heart"

K.E. Duffin, "My Revenant, My Other Self"

Lesley Wheeler, "Ghost Triskelion"

III.

Stephanie McCarter, "Creation"

Dick Davis, "Nature doesn't do free verse" and "Diasporas"

Carol Light, "Mad Gardener's Verses" and "Diagramming the Sentence"

Andrew Hudgins, "The Eye-of-the-Needle Problem"

Robert Morgan, "Alexander"

Marly Youmans, "The Fabled Rightnesses of Wu Tao Tzu"

Seth Wieck, "The Laureate's Lament"

Daniel Brown, "Of All the Luck"

Forester McClatchey, "The Opportunist"

Peggy Landsman, "Aubade," "Rough Drafts," and "The Road Not Taken"

Jane Satterfield, "Wolf Girl"

Katie Hartsock, "The Fisherman's Wife"

Jesse Keith Butler, "The Last of the Longships"

Elijah Perseus Blumov, "The Young Mages" and "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles, I Think of Keats"

IV.

Mary R. Finnegan, "Out of the Mouth of God"