Daniel Cooper

New Verse Review is open from November 1 through November 30 for poetry submissions to its winter issue. We'd be honored if you shared your work with us. Full details below:

I recently had two alliterative poems published, one spiritual and one spooky. Thanks to Dialogue and FGR!
@dialoguejournal.bsky.social @rhunedhel.bsky.social

alliteration.net/poetry/hellh...

www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/bir...

I recently had two alliterative poems published, one spiritual and one spooky. Thanks to Dialogue and FGR!
@dialoguejournal.bsky.social @rhunedhel.bsky.social

alliteration.net/poetry/hellh...

www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/bir...

Hellhound, a poem in alliterative verse by D.A. Cooper ... Cold rain, / cursed and heavy / ceaselessly falls / in this circle of Hell ...

@dacooperpoet.bsky.social's "Hellhound" imitates Norse epic meter (fornyrðislag).

8-line stanzas. Both stresses in odd lines should alliterate with the 1st stress in the next line. Cooper breaks with historic form by allowing a single alliteration in odd lines.
alliteration.net/poetry/hellhound/

Call for Submissions, Issue 8 Submit your alliterative poems to Forgotten Ground Regained by January 1

Now that the current issue is out, here's the next open call for submissions for alliterative poetry.

Psalms and meditations ...

alliteration.net/info/call-fo... #submissionscall #alliteration #poetrysky #poetrycommunity

Are your kids texting about the Poetic Edda?

Birding at the Lake - Dialogue Journal A pod of pelicans    patrols the shore like angels guarding       the gates of heaven.

New alliterative poem by @dacooperpoet.bsky.social:

www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/bir... #alliterative #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #alliterativeverse

Hellhound, a poem in alliterative verse by D.A. Cooper ... Cold rain, / cursed and heavy / ceaselessly falls / in this circle of Hell ...

Here's @dacooperpoet.bsky.social's Norse-style take on Dante's inferno! Hell may be hard, but the words gotta dance ...

alliteration.net/poetry/hellh... #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #BlueSkyPoets #PoetsOfBlueSky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #alliterativeverse #Dante #inferno

Current Issue: Fall 2025 Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse

Announcing: The Fall, 2025 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, featuring modern English poetry in Norse and Icelandic forms. 17 poems, 3 articles, with loads of info for the curious (& some great poems!)
alliteration.net/current-issue/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #BlueSkyPoets

Check out New Verse Review's Halloween issue!
www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H...

Countdown to the next issue of FORGOTTEN GROUND REGAINED begins!

Rise | The North American Anglican Thick, mist-forged shackles held us in the cave, imprisoned for the crime of losing all. We saw nothing but shadows on the wall— they gamboled and they taunted us. We gave in to the dark. A crushing f...

To introduce the Fall issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, releasing next Saturday, I'm introducing its authors first.

D.A. Cooper is publishing "Hellhound" (based on a scene from Dante's Inferno) in FGR. Previous publications include "Rise" in The North American Anglican:

northamanglican.com/rise/

Some good news on old news:

NVR's Halloween edition will launch on Tues, Oct 14. In celebration we are throwing our first ever HALLOWEEN PARTY!

On Fri, Oct 17 at 8pm ET we will have a Zoom reading with some of the poets from the issue.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

For tickets, please click the link below:

Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader [Beardsley, Amanda, Allred, Mason] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader

Public-service announcement: I finally bought a copy because for some unknown reason Amazon is currently selling it for $6.34: amzn.to/4365saW

Just wanted to announce that my next book comes out Sept 29. Latter-day Sikh is a biography of my grandpa, Gurcharan Singh Gill, and a reflection on the two beautiful faiths that shaped his life.
More here: jamesgoldberg.substack.com/p/latter-day...

Gawain, a poem in alliterative verse by Steve Knepper A Solomonic sign adorned his shield, / Five tines pentacled on a flaming field. / Five joys our gentle Queen took in her childe, / Five wondrous wounds of Christ in which we're healed ...

Here's a little Arthurian poem by Steve Knepper of @newversereview.bsky.social:

alliteration.net/poetry/gawain/
#gawain #SirGawain #alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse

Open for Halloween Subs/Best of the Net Nominations Congrats to BoN nominees Sally Thomas, Jenna Le, Midge Goldberg, Steven Searcy, Alice Allan, and T.O. Brandon

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NVR has nominated six poems for this year's Best of the Net. Congratulations to Midge Goldberg, Alice Allan, @stevensearcy.bsky.social, Jenna Le, @tyndallbrandon.bsky.social, and @sallythomasnc.bsky.social!
Read their poems 👇.

This is a reminder that NVR opens for submissions to its Halloween mini-issue tomorrow, September 1. Prepare your skeleton sonnets and pumpkin spice pantoums!

Beowulf Lies Dead Beside the Dragon: An Alliterative Verse Translation With heavy heart the young hero / looked on his beloved lord and found him / lying prone, his life pouring out ...

My take on Beowulf's death.

alliteration.net/poetry/beowu...

Will it also be published in the US?

The Sailor's Attempt an argument in verse

A poem on meter

substack.com/app-link/pos...

∞ - Irreantum Irreantum presents a special issue on the re-revelation of polygamy in modern settings. Three awful and wonderful tales by Fillerup, Larson, and Rytting.

Our new issue!

Presenting, Eternities of Cats:

What does Norse mythology have to do with the TSA? Read on for the answer... then click link in thread for all 11 Poems of the Week on the Epstein list, AI-written sermons, befuddled Brits & more.
#humor #comedy #satire #limericks #poetry #poetrycommunity #lightverse #funnypoems #parody #Thor #TSA

Rachel Hadas Wire and Vine I’m weeding. But more stubborn than the roots of dandelions or goutweed are the stalks of last year’s morning glories, which have wound themselves around the chicken wire fence much too tightly to be disentangled. That fence, whose function is to separate nature from cultivation, to protect spinach, kale, arugula, lettuce, herbs, has become less a barrier than a trellis. Intimate as lovers, vines now dry have twisted themselves over strands of wire. To extricate them now would feel like vandalism, despoliation of some artifact, and anyway would take too long to do. Those clippers rusting in the barn—but no. They’re too blunt for this purpose. Let it go. Besides, why even try to separate partners inextricably intertwined? Years teach acceptance, which, today, I’m learning, parsing every twist and every turning, boundaries, binary, form and content twinned like vines and wires I cannot unwind.

Read this poem earlier and loved its clarity and distinct imagery...which of course leave an understated melancholia. (Often, those are the most lasting).

'Wire and Vine' by Rachel Hadas in the Summer issue of New Verse Review ❤️

www.newversereview.com/2-3-rachel-h...

#poetry #writingcommunity

"There was a time when your cheerful spirit burbled
in every brook and stream, full of music & life."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Zayandehrood: A Ghazal by Niloufar Behrooz (2025 @newversereview.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/3ek7ztv7

Just spent a few days in the Vermont woods, off-grid, no running water, but amazingly beautiful, and felt again what I tried to express in my triple-meter sonnet in the new issue of @newversereview.bsky.social:

www.newversereview.com/2-3-carla-sc... Honored to have a #poem curated @newversereview.bsky.social along with so many other wonderful #poems. Check it out. #poetry #poetrycommunity

I try to write poems. I’m working on it. And I’m very grateful to everybody at @newversereview.bsky.social, especially Steve Knepper and Mary Grace Mangano, for publishing, alongside many rad poems, this poem. I tried. I worked on it. And I hope you like it. www.newversereview.com/2-3-shane-mc...