# VERVE POETRY

Poetry organization running VERVE Poetry Festival, year-round projects that champion new voices, and writing community. VERVE is a home for poetry that is live, lived, and alive.

By VERVE Poetry

· Over 4,000 subscribers

[These poems place what's going on in the world as background noise to relational encounters.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/these-poems-place-whats-going-on)

[May 26 VERVE Poem of the Month winning and shortlisted poems.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/these-poems-place-whats-going-on)

### Recent posts

[Poetry lets me look at one thing closely and slowly for a long time.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/poetry-lets-me-look-at-one-thing)

["In the rest of my life it is loud and busy and chaotic and I flit from one thing to another in a deeply inefficient way." An interview with Nia…](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/poetry-lets-me-look-at-one-thing)

Jun 10•[VERVE Poetry](https://substack.com/@vervepoetry)

[Accountability Hour for Poets](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/accountability-hour-for-poets)

[Access to Writing Hour with Suzannah Evans-Furnass tomorrow at 5:30pm.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/accountability-hour-for-poets)

May 31•[VERVE Poetry](https://substack.com/@vervepoetry)

[Poetry fits so neatly into a morning or a spare hour, and it brings such freedom into that time.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/poetry-fits-so-neatly-into-a-morning)

[Suzannah Evans Furnass on poetry, green spaces, and never getting schticky. She takes the helm as Writing Hour host from June 1st, the first Monday of…](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/poetry-fits-so-neatly-into-a-morning)

May 18•[VERVE Poetry](https://substack.com/@vervepoetry)

[When someone hands you a perfect line, you don't ask questions. You just write the poem.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/when-someone-hands-you-a-perfect)

[Vanessa Lampert on horses, instinct, and the gift of a friend's throwaway remark, alongside her influences, her community, and what's coming next. An…](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/when-someone-hands-you-a-perfect)

May 10•[VERVE Poetry](https://substack.com/@vervepoetry)

[the more I stared at it, the less I feared it... I wanted to write a poem about this transformation I felt, the joy it evoked in me, and the…](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/the-more-i-stared-at-it-the-less)

[Minutes after I confess I'm arachnophobic, you show me... Debmalya Bandyopadhyay won our POEM OF THE FESTIVAL. He reads at a live online reading…](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/the-more-i-stared-at-it-the-less)

May 5•[VERVE Poetry](https://substack.com/@vervepoetry)

[The ‘Radiohead of Poetry’ - Shortlisted Poet of the Festival Lisette on miserable poems, NHS years, and why everyone's life is interesting.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/the-radiohead-of-poetry)

[There will be a live online reading from poets alongside Victoria Kennefick May 10th.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/the-radiohead-of-poetry)

May 3•[VERVE Poetry](https://substack.com/@vervepoetry)

[Horse, Marble, Wax: The Mould and the Metaphor in this Month's POTM Selection](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/horse-marble-wax-the-mould-and-the)

[Presenting April's POEM's OF THE MONTH. The thread between all selected poems is breaking; a horse, from the status quo, the rules, a heart, marble into…](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/horse-marble-wax-the-mould-and-the)

Apr 30•[VERVE Poetry](https://substack.com/@vervepoetry)

[My Dearest Friend by Lady Red Ego with Xiaoyu Luo shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/my-dearest-friend-by-lady-red-ego)

[inspired by Anne Carson *since forever, and currently James Baldwin, Nella Larsen, Octavia Butler, and Ursula K. Le Guin, it's no wonder. Here, poet and…](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/my-dearest-friend-by-lady-red-ego)