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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…

POETRY Francesca Abbate  Peter Campion  Anna Catone  Thomas A. Clark  Janet Foxman  Joseph Massey  Caryl Pagel  Andrea Raos Elizabeth Robinson  Matthew Sweeney SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS  Contemporary Greek Poetry by David Connolly  Anglophone Cameroonian Poetry by Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi REVIEWS J. Peter Moore on Tony Lopez’s Only More So  Adra Raine on Bruce Smith’s Devotions RECENT & NOTABLE Spring 2012 PHOTO…

POETRY Jennifer Atkinson  Alexander Booth  Eryn Green  Carolyn Guinzio  Alex Houen  Robert S. King  Lisa Holstein  Martha Ronk  John Taggart  Nicholas Wong SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS  Eireann Lorsung from Scale Model REVIEWS Jon Thompson on Harriet Tarlo and Peter Riley  Marcus Slease on Michael Zand PHOTO Steven Bundy

POETRY Sherman Alexie  Maryam Chahine  Andrew Feld  Mark Irwin  Peter Larkin  Thomas David Lisk  James Mc Laughlin  John Peck  John Shoptaw  George Szirtes  Brad Vogler  Shu-Ching Wu   SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT  Supplement I: Selected Poems of Haizi, Translated by Gerald Maa   PHOTO Jamie Starling

POETRY Emily Carr James Galvin Luke Sykora James Capozzi Kate Thorpe Gerry Loose Christopher Kondrich Bruce Smith Chris Sindt Derek Henderson Stephen Middleton Jeff Alessandrelli Carrie Etter Matthew Henriksen Wayne Miller   SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS Supplement I: Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China Supplement II: Poems from George Godeau’s We’ll See   ESSAYS Jon Thompson…

POETRY Boyer Rickel  Jennifer Clarvoe  Gail Mazur  Gabrielle Jesiolowski  Jason Labbe Lisa Fishman  James McLaughlin  Claudia Keelan SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS  On the State of Poetry Publishing in the New Millenium: A Roundtable by Free Verse  From Instances: Selected Poems [forthcoming] by Jeongrye Choi ESSAYS John Felstiner on Paul Celan  Stacy Cartledge on Michael Smith’s Universe PHOTO Scott Helmes

POETRY Bruce Beasley  Aidan Semmens  Joshua Ware/Crystal S. Gibbins  Jack Boettcher  Lara Candland  Ian Seed  Michael Smith  Simon Brittan  Susan Tichy  Devin Johnston SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS  New Voices from New York, edited by Chris Tonelli  Amy King, “The What Else of Queer Poetry” RECENT & NOTABLE Winter, 2010 PHOTO Scott Helmes

POETRY Clayton Eshleman  Adam Clay  Janet Sutherland  Arun Sagar  Elizabeth Winder  Rachel Zucker  Marcus Slease  Joe Bonomo  Aldo Palazzeschi/Nicholas Benson  Deborah Bernhardt  Sandro Penna/Alexander Booth  Geoffrey Babbitt  Jawdat Fakhreddine  Sandy Longhorn  Julie Carr SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS  Supplement I: New Voices from New England, edited by Chris Tonelli  Supplement II: Poems from Camillo Sbarbaro’s Pianissimo (1914) edited by…

POETRY Peter Riley Mark Irwin Maurice Manning G.C. Waldrep Julia Hansen F. Daniel Rzicznek Vona Groarke Molly Bendall SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS  “A Fascicle of Poems” by Franz Wright Blind Date: An Anthology of Argentinian Poets Prologue and Selection by Liliana Heer and Ana Arzoumanian  “Cita a ciegas” [Spanish Prologue to Blind Date: An Anthology of Argentinian Poets] REVIEWS…

POETRY Brent House Carolyn Guinzio Gautam Verma Endi Bogue Hartigan Hugh Behm-Steinberg John Robinson Matthew Cooperman Anne Fitzgerald John Pursley Kirsten Kashock Jack Alun  J.J. Blickstein  Sasha Steensen Derek Henderson Reagan Barna Eleni Sikelianos   SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS  Contemporary Palestinian Poetry, Edited by Michael Smith Place in Contemporary Italian Poetry, Edited and Translated by Anamaría Crowe…