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New issue of FORGOTTEN GROUND REGAINED! Lots of good verse under the theme of "prophets, protests, and poetic battles." Plus one action-packed article by yours truly on an astounding alliterative poem by Charles R. Sleeth called "After the Flood." alliteration.net/current-issue/

Dennis Wise True Thomas, by Oz Hardwick, in the Summer Issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse alliteration.net/poetry/true-th…

Dennis Wise Healthy Shame, by Lancelot Schaubert, in the Summer Issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse alliteration.net/poetry/healthy…

Dennis Wise Come Home, by Pernille Bruhn, in the Summer 2025 Issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse alliteration.net/poetry/come-ho…

Dennis Wise The Fleece, by Audrey Hampton, in the Summer 2025 Issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse alliteration.net/poetry/the-fle…

Dennis Wise The City is Recruited from the Country, by Lancelot Schaubert, in the Summer 2025 Issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse alliteration.net/poetry/the-cit…

Anthony Esolen Kaleb Hammond ✝🇻🇦 I think alliterative verse can challenge blank verse for versatility, especially when the poet is willing to work with, rather than against, the English language's strong predilection for rising rhythms.

Going to read some poetry at 5 today at my favorite urban garden, the Elizabeth Street Garden: elizabethstreetgarden.com

“Mithril is the first Elvish word to have entered the Oxford English Dictionary.” - The Ring of Words

THIS is how you open a story: "Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures."

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

In Tolkien’s Letters to Father Christmas, the people of the North Pole speak Arktik, which is actually Quenya. Also, Father Christmas’s secretary is Ilbereth, which sounds a lot like Elbereth, aka Varda. All signs point to Father Christmas being a great Elf-lord, or perhaps even

All’s fair in love and war—and poetry…. Here’s a new warlike love sonnet in New Verse Review with thanks as ever to the keen-eyed Steven Knepper

Here is a plain style elegy for my brother in the new issue of New Verse Review.

Here is a great stanza by the late Jane Greer (Jane Greer) in her honor: No one will say it, but we know today’s fresh-flamed hibiscus flower reveals in one brief, glorious show our birth, our life, our final hour.

Amit Majmudar Steven Knepper New Verse Review You'll be amused, perhaps, to learn there is an alliterative poem about the Bataan Death March by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Richard Eberhart's "Brotherhood of Men". alliteration.net/poetry/brother…

Ryan Hammill And for a more in depth intro to alliterative verse: alliteration.net/information-pa…

“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?” — 1 John 4:20

Alright, my translation of Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" (out January 2026) is up at Amazon and elsewhere. Super psyched about this: amazon.com/Meditations-Ma…

♰ Atomic Anchorite ♰ One Merri Columnist Well, he wished it was, too! If you read closely in Lays of Beleriand, you find he wanted to do the whole Silmarillion in alliterative verse. This slide from a talk i gave at Mereth Aderthad 2025 puts it in a nutshell!