Freeverse:  A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.

  • Welcome to Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics

    Welcome to Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics

    Welcome to Free Verse Thanks for visiting our site! Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics is an annual electronic journal that focuses on publishing the finest free verse being written today.  The journal aims to provide a forum for the wide variety of poetic experiments and work in various poetic traditions in…

  • Free Verse – Issue 33 – 2022

    Free Verse – Issue 33 – 2022

    Poetry: Sharmistha Mohanty: Street, Threadbare, Abhimaan & Afternoon Luke Roberts: Record Lows John Kinsella: After Coleen Fitzgibbon’s Late 1989 Film ‘Land of Nod’ Beyond Owen Land’s 1970 Film ‘Remedial Reading Comprehension’ Grass Cutting and Andy Warhol’s Sleep Liquid Flow of Echidna from Gravel to Grass Bank Shy Sun Orchid Fourier Transform Paraphs The Surrounding Phenomena of Resighting ‘Eclipse…

  • Free Verse – Issue 32 – 2021

    Free Verse – Issue 32 – 2021

    Poetry: Carol Watts § Betsy Porritt § Danielle Hooke Goodbody § Stephen Collis § Ágnes Lehóczky § Megan James § Simon Everett § Tomi Adegbayibi § Kelvin Corcoran Interview: Dorothy Lehane and Nancy Gaffield talk to Sarah Crewe about her latest book, garn. Essays and Reviews: Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal on Tsering Wangmo Dhompa § Sam Weselowski…

  • Free Verse – Issue 31 – 2020

    Free Verse – Issue 31 – 2020

    Poetry: Bruce Bond Tomas Tranströmer translated by Patty Crane Carrie Etter John James Laura Quinney Ian Seed Susan Tichy Laura Wetherington Dean Young Essays and Reviews: Nick Halpern on Robert Lowell Nick Halpern on Charles Wright Rebecca Ariel Porte Cover Image: Alex Kozlov (www.pexels.com)

  • Free Verse – Issue 30 – 2019

    Free Verse – Issue 30 – 2019

    Poetry: Jennifer Atkinson Sarah Blake Nancy Gaffield Martial translated by Tyler Goldman Fady Joudah Peter Larkin Nathaniel Tarn John Sibley Williams Essays and Reviews: Nick Halpern on Duncan Jon Thompson on Riley Recent & Notable: 2019 Cover Image: Bob Trotman (http://www.bobtrotman.com/) — Collection: Andrew Dews

  • Free Verse – Issue 29 – 2018

    Free Verse – Issue 29 – 2018

    Poetry: Allison Funk  Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine translated by Baba Badji  Nate Klug  Heather McHugh  Medbh McGuckian  Virginia Konchan  Amit Majmudar  Derek Mong  Peter Riley  Ian Seed  G.C. Waldrep  David Welch Special Supplement: Poetry from Nicaragua Essays and Reviews: Nick Halpern on Rilke  Nick Halpern on Bidart  Amanda Ogea on Hillman

  • Free Verse – Issue 28 – Summer 2017

    Free Verse – Issue 28 – Summer 2017

    Poetry Baba Badji  Dan Beachy-Quick  Bruce Bond  Josh Booton  Noah Eli Gordon  Charlotte Lieberman  Shane McCrae  Joshua McKinney  Boyer Rickel  F. Daniel Rzicznek  Sandra Simonds  Cole Swensen  Susan Tichy Special Supplements New translation of Catullus by Simon Smith from The Books of Catullus Reviews Nick Halpern’s review of Susan Stewart’s Cinder  Joshua McKinney’s review of…

  • Free Verse – Issue 27 – 2016

    Free Verse – Issue 27 – 2016

    POETRY Rae Armantrout  Chad Bennett  Kelvin Corcoran  Derek Gromadzki  Pelham Levy  Jeffrey Neilson  Sarah Rose Nordgren  Fani Papageorgiou  Donald Revell  Peter Robinson  Simon Smith RECENT & NOTABLE 2016

  • Free Verse – Issue 26 – 2015

    Free Verse – Issue 26 – 2015

    POETRY Gillian Hamel  Karla Kelsey  Karen An-hwei Lee  Ágnes Lehóczky  Nancy Anne Miller  Jon Pineda  Rusty Morrison  Aidan Semmens  Brian Teare  Scott Thurston SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS  Nick Halpern, “James Wright and Franz Wright on Exaggeration” REVIEWS Aidan Semmens on Kevin Corcoran’s Sea Table Salih J. Altoma on Salah Niazi’s Dizza Castle: Selected Poems RECENT & NOTABLE 2015

  • Free Verse – Issue 25 – 2014

    Free Verse – Issue 25 – 2014

    POETRY Monica Berlin & Beth Marzoni  Iain Britton  Ryan Flaherty  Nick Flynn  Mark Irwin  L.S. Klatt  Peter Larkin  Valerio Magrelli  John Peck  Susan Tichy  Joe Wenderoth SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS  Losada’s The Magnetic Brackets, by Ingelmo/Smith  Jennifer Pierson, “Dispatches from the (War) Hospital” REVIEWS Molly Bendall on Jody Gladding’s Translations from Bark Beetle  Jon Thompson on Peter Gizzi’s In Defense of Nothing:…

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