New Verse Review

2026

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Dear Name,

Thank you for submitting to New Verse Review. We appreciated the chance to read your work. We always receive more good poems than we can publish, though, and we have decided that your submission isn't the right fit for our summer issue.

If you are interested in submitting again, NVR opens for submissions to its Halloween mini-issue on September 1 and its winter issue on November 1, 2026.

Best regards,

NVR Editors (Steve Knepper, Mary Grace Mangano, D. A. Cooper)

2025

Encouraging

Dear NAME,

Thank you for sharing your work with New Verse Review. We had many strong submissions to the summer issue. Yours was among them, and it made our second round of consideration. In the end, we decided to pass on it, but we hope you will submit again in the future.

Best regards, The NVR Editors (Steve Knepper, Mary Grace Mangano, D.A. Cooper)

Dear NAME,

Thank you for sharing these poems with us. We're passing on this set, but we are fans of your work, and we hope you will submit again during the summer reading period, which begins on June 1.

Best regards, The NVR Editors (Steve Knepper, Mary Grace Mangano, D.A. Cooper)

Haloween Issue

Thank you for submitting to New Verse Review's Halloween mini-issue. Your poems were not selected, but we appreciated the chance to read them. Rest assured that we gave them close attention. Space is limited in a mini-issue, and editorial decisions have much to do with thematic fit and formal variety. Please consider submitting to NVR again when we open for general submissions to our winter issue on November 1, 2025.

Best regards,

NVR Editors (Steve Knepper and Zina Gomez-Liss)

2024

Encouraging

Dear NAME,

Thank you for submitting to New Verse Review. We have received many more excellent submissions to our inaugural issue than we can publish. While your poems weren’t selected for this issue, we hope you will submit again in a future reading period. I particularly enjoyed "SERIOUSLY WONDERFUL POEM."

Best regards, Steve Knepper