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Poetry
Wendy Videlock, “The Lesson of the Solstice” and “Subject to Erasure”
Matilda Silver Sykes, “The USB Ports”
Aaron Poochigian, “Heliolatry”
Matthew King, “Barbecue”
Christina Linsin, “Rootless”
David Middleton, “After Reading Revelation 21:23” and “Woman Drawing Water From a Well (II): A Meditation”
Sally Thomas, “Egret”
Deborrah Corr, “To Believe in Water”
Matthew Kirby, “The Pull”
Ramya Yandava, “Sea-Bed”
Adrienne Su, “Solitude” and “Konmari”
Jared Carter, “Abandoned, “Chess,” and “Cicacadas”
II.
Alice Allan, “American Love”
Michael Lavers, “Passionate Shepherd to His Love, II” and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd, II”
Alan Shapiro, “Compatibilities”
Joan Murray, “Water Music”
Christopher Carstens, “Leaning”
D.S. Martin, “Citylight”
Erica Reid, “Where Can I Find the Stars”
Christian Lingner, “Superstition”
William L. Ramsey, “The Omen”
Jean Kreiling, “Midnight Ride”
Brennan O’Donnell, “Memory for $200, Please”
Fiona Spring, “Great Grandmother’s Typewriter”
III.
Shane McCrae, “Boy with Rifle”
Henry Hart, “Walking Home After School”
Amy Bagan, “The Piano Lesson”
Mark Fryburg, “Lady Hallett’s Piano”
Rachel Hadas, “Cryptozoology”
Jane Blanchard, “La Loge”
Barbara Lydecker Crane, “My Letter to that Critic” and “Before My One-Man Show”
Brian Brodeur, “Cocaine Hippo”
Selena Wisnom, “Beauty spot”
Jeff Young, “Turning Points”
IV.
Jianqing Zheng, “The Architecture of a Word”
David Martin, “On the Philosophy of Money”
J.C. Scharl, “Opening Day After Winning the Title”
A.M. Juster, “Nothing in Hell Is Up to Snuff”
R.L. Barth, “An Abstract Offering,” “Violating Sgt. Barth’s Rule #1,” and “McNamara’s 100,000”
Jefferson M. Holdridge, “Balloons and Zephyrs”
Josh Luckenbach, “Banana Plant, Lubbock, Texas”
Claudia Gary, “Tonal Labyrinth”
Gregory Calabro, “Tropical Depression”
Abigail Knutson, “Ezer Means Warrior”
Tushar Sen, “Creation of Woman”
Carla Galdo, “In Exile, You Will Sometimes Forget”
Cover photograph courtesy of Roseanne T. Sullivan
ISSN: 3068-1766
Issue Edited by Steven Knepper, Mary Grace Mangano, and D.A. Cooper
New Verse Review 3.3: Summer 2026
Jason Guriel, "The Day the Drawings Died"
Verse Novel Excerpt
Translation Feature
Amit Majmudar, "Book of Transformations"
Criticism
Ryan Wilson
Alexis Sears
Ned Balbo