New Verse Review: A Journal of Lyric and Narrative Poetry is an online journal committed to renewing the ancient affinities among poetry, song, and story. This reading features four prominent poets who have published in NVR.
Ned Balbo holds degrees from Vassar, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His books are The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots (New Criterion Prize), 3 Nights of the Perseids (Richard Wilbur Award), Upcycling Paumanok, The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (Donald Justice Prize and the Poets’ Prize), Lives of the Sleepers (Ernest Sandeen Prize), and Galileo’s Banquet (Towson University Prize co-winner). He has been a fellow or scholar at Sewanee, Bread Loaf, and the Vermont Studio Center. His awards include an NEA translation fellowship and four Maryland Arts Council grants.
Claudia Gary’s poems appear in anthologies and journals internationally. She teaches workshops on Sonnet, Villanelle, Meter, Poetry vs. Trauma, and more at The Writer’s Center (writer.org) and privately, currently via Zoom. Author of Humor Me (2006) and chapbooks including Genetic Revisionism (2019), she is also an advisory editor of New Verse Review, as well as a health/science journalist, visual artist, and composer. Her article on setting poems to music is online at https://straightlabyrinth.info/conference.html.
Poet and translator A.M. Juster’s work has appeared in Poetry, The Hudson Review and The Paris Review. He is the author of twelve books, most recently Wonder and Wrath (Paul Dry Books, 2020), Gerytades (Contubernales Books, 2023), and Girlatee (Paul Dry Books, 2025). His translation of Petrarch’s Canzoniere will be out from W.W. Norton this fall. He is the only three-time winner of the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, and he has won the Richard Wilbur Award and other significant literary prizes.
Jane Satterfield’s five poetry books include The Badass Brontës (Diode Editions Award), Apocalypse Mix (Autumn House Poetry Prize), and Her Familiars. She has received National Endowment for the Arts and Maryland Arts Council poetry fellowships, Bellingham Review’s 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, and the Ledbury Poetry Festival Prize. Selections from Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond (Demeter Press, 2009) won Florida Review’s Editors’ Prize and the Faulkner Society’s Essay Award. Satterfield has served as faculty for the West Chester Poetry and Frost Farm Conferences and is a professor of writing at Loyola University Maryland.