Steven Knepper

Now available from @politybooks: Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction Publisher page: shorturl.at/iQf1f Interviews Hermitix: youtube.com/watch?v=V2mvEW… Acid Horizon: youtube.com/watch?v=E5hxIG… Current: shorturl.at/6AzpE

Stephen Dunn

Twinned with the pleasure of restraint of course is the "wildness of poetry" throughout this issue of @newversereview -- from @AmitMajmudar capacious lines in "Great American Novel" "lobotomized to MFA" to Alexis Sears' excellent "Chase Bank." Reminds me of Dylan's "Highlands"!

Here's @AmitMajmudar on the voraciousness, the capaciousness of the late great humanist George Steiner: "To read Steiner is, above all, to be reminded of everything you have ever read or meant to read."

Dear friends: here is part 1 of my Timeline Theological Video on R. Girard, as promised. It was filmed in Nottingham this June. I hope you enjoy and please do share. @AimeTim @RyanHaecker @tenshi_anna @chaven @ChurchLifeND @EduardFiedler @JoshuaFurnal youtube.com/watch?v=qFK_sw…

What an honor to have my photograph on the cover of one of my favorite journals. My father built that birdhouse and hung it in the middle of a field in Temperance Hill, SC, where the sky is always just about that blue. Thanks again @newversereview

This is probably the best interview of William Desmond out there--nuanced but feisty, also funny. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wil…

This is what deep study looks like...

NVR was honored to publish a poem by Rachel Hadas in its newly released summer issue, a vivid gardening poem that is about much more than gardening.

It is the error of the semantic philosophies to close up language as if it spoke only of itself: language lives only from silence; everything we cast to the others has germinated in this great mute land which we never leave. 1/

Plenty of novels about poetry out there, but here’s a poem about a novel—a Great American Novel, edited down by contemporary publishing culture into “literary fiction”…. Many thanks to @StevenEKnepper at @newversereview

Our Summer 2025 issue is available! A striking cover by @RobMcDonaldVA and poems by @AmitMajmudar, @azforeman, Shane McCrae, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell (@AODonnellAngela), @alexissearspoet, @MidgeGoldberg, James Matthew Wilson (@JMWSPT), Rachel Hadas, Jared Carter, and others

All’s fair in love and war—and poetry…. Here’s a new warlike love sonnet in @newversereview with thanks as ever to the keen-eyed @StevenEKnepper

"Silence is replaced by noise...the omnipresence of screens that capture our gaze; almost all our sensorium is mobilized. From the registers of prayer to the secular ones of the interior voice...these ways of the secret give onto a horizon of unlimited immanence."

My family and I visited the National Zoo yesterday and saw fennec foxes, which made me think of this great David Landrum poem from NVR 1.1

Doing yard work, listening to ⁦@StevenEKnepper⁩ on Han. Would love to hear knepp knepp discuss this Coldplay incident from a Han perspective. I’m now commissioning podcasts 😎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aci…

Great NVR reading at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda. Here are two of the star readers— @amjuster and Jane Satterfield. Many thanks to all the readers and attendees!

Don't miss @SallyThomasNC reading her poetry this Sunday evening (July 20) as part of the online Thomist Poets series organized by Christopher Honey (@coffeephilosoph). Find all the details below.

Plato filtered through Coomaraswamy: For him painting or agriculture, music and carpentry and pottery are all equally kinds of poetry or making.

If you're in the Bethesda area, join us tomorrow at 2:00 for a free NVR reading at the Writer's Center. @CarlaGaldoVA and @dacooperpoet are our openers, followed by @claudiagary, @amjuster, Ned Balbo, and Jane Satterfield.

“Poetry reading” doesn’t always look like this! This Sat 7/19 in Bethesda MD hear a live poetry reading from @newversereview poets @amjuster, @claudiagary, Ned Balbo & Jane Satterfield, with a brief taste of @dacooperpoet & yours truly! Link below.