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I Free Verse Editions

Rodney Jones will be the judge of Free Verse Editions' 2025 New Measure Poetry Prize. Visit Free Verse Editions' webpage for more information:https://parlorpress.com/collections/free-verse-editions
I'm the founding editor of Free Verse Editions, which is published by David Blakesley's fine publishing house, Parlor Press.

Free Verse Editions is a single-author poetry series specializing in perfect-bound, original collections of (mainly) contemporary poetry in handsomely- produced editions. All of the books are designed by David Blakesley.  Launched in 2005, and published by Parlor Press, Free Verse Editions has more than 100 titles on its list showcasing leading talents in Anglophone poetry and poetry in translation. While particularly interested in formally-innovative poetry, Free Verse Editions represents a wide variety of aesthetic practices, each marked by a singular poetic intelligence. 

Free Verse Editions is committed to publishing 3-4 collections of poetry per year. Titles can be purchased at any online vendor and can be ordered by any brick-and-mortar bookshop.

To read more about Free Verse Editions, visit Parlor Press's website here.


Free Verse Editions Titles 

2022 
Vanessa Couto Johnson, pH of Au
Nate Duke, A Suit of Paper Feathers
Aby Kaupang, & there is still you thrill hour of the world to love [co-winner of New Measure Poetry Prize selected by Brenda Hillman]
Joy Manesiotis, A Short History of Anger [co-winner of New Measure Poetry Prize selected by Brenda Hillman]
Donna Spruijt-Metz, General Release from the Beginning of the World

2021
Giles Goodland, Civil Twilight
Richard Jarrette, Strange Antlers
Martha Ronk, A Myth of Ariadne [New Measure Poetry Prize Winner selected by Jon Thompson]
Simon Smith, Last Morning
Susan Tichy, North| Rock | Edge

2020
Baba Badji, Ghost Letters
Allison Funk, The Visible Woman
Rick Snyder, Here City
Daniel Tiffany, Cry Baby Mystic
Laura Wetherington, Parallel Resting Places [New Measure Poetry Prize selected by Peter Gizzi]

2019
Monica Berlin, Elsewhere, That Small
Bruce Bond, The Calling
Kelvin Corcoran, Republic of Song
Peter Kline, Mirrorforms
Eric Pankey, Alias
Tracy Zeman, Empire [New Measure Poetry Prize selected by Jon Thompson]

2018
Elizabeth Jacobson, Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air [New Measure Poetry Prize selected by Marianne Boruch]
Joshua McKinney, Small Sillion
F. Daniel Rzicznek, Settlers

​2017
Bruce Bond, Dear Reader
Josh Booton, The Miraculous Courageous [New Measure Poetry Prize selected by Jon Thompson]
Elizabeth Robinson, Rumor
Simon Smith, Day In, Day Out
Felicia Zamora, & in Open, Marvel

2016
Hannah Craig, This History that Just Happened [New Measure Poetry Prize Winner, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa]
Shim Bo-Seon, Fifteen Seconds without Sorrow (translated by Chung Eun Hwo and Brother Anthony of Taizé] 
Derek Gomadzki, Pilgrimage
Ethel Rackin, Go On
Nicolas Pesques, Overyellow (translated by Cole Swensen)
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2015
Matthew Cooperman, Spool [Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize]
Jennifer Atkinson, The Thinking Eye
Carolyn Guinzio, Spine
Guillevic, Summoned (translated by Monique Chefdor and Stella Harvey)
Valerio Magrelli, Condominium of the Body (translated by Clarissa Botsford)

2014
Monica Berlin and Beth Marzoni, No Shape Bends the River So Long [New Measure Poetry Prize Winner, selected by Carolyn Forche]
Allison Funk, Wonder Rooms
L.S. Klatt, Sunshine Wound
Jesus Losada, The Magnetic Brackets, translated by Luis Ingelmo and Michael Smith
Sarah Sousa, Split the Crow

2013
Eric Pankey, Dismantling the Angel [New Measure Poetry Prize Winner, selected by Jon Thompson]
Guillevic, Requis, translated by Monique Chefdor and Stella Harvey
Siobhan Scarry, Pilgrimly

2012
Jennifer Atkinson, Canticle of the Night Path [New Measure Poetry Prize Winner, selected by Susan Stewart]
Christopher Kondrich, Contrapuntal
Aidan Semmens, The Book of Isaac
Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Erros

2011 
James Capozzi, Country Album [ New Measure Poetry Prize Winner,selected  by Jon Thompson] 
Jeongrye Choi, Instances. Translated by Brenda Hillman, Wayne de Fremery, and Jeongrye Choi
Georges Godeau, We’ll See. Translated by Kathleen McGookey 
Brittany Perham, The Curiosities
Christopher Sindt, The Bodies  
 
2010
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, An Unchanging Blue, translated by Mark Terrill
Emily Carr, 13 Ways of Happily [New Measure Poetry Prize winner, selected by Cole Swensen]
Ashur Etwebi, Poems from Above the Hills, translated by Brenda Hillman and Diallah Haidar
Lisa Fishman, Current
2009
Daniel Rzicznek’s Divination Machine. Endorsed by Djelloul Marbrook  & H.L. Hix
Ger Killeen’s Blood Orbits.
Molly Bendall’s Under the Quick. Endorsed by Dan Beachy-Quick.

2008
Carolyn  Guinzio’s Quarry. Endorsed by Ann Lauterbach, David Shapiro &Tony Tost. 
Jennie Neighbors’ Between the Twilight and the  Sky. Endorsed by Ann Lauterbach & Robin Blaser.
Boyer Rickel’s remanence. Endorsed by Rae Armantrout, Timothy Liu & Jane Miller.
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub’s What Stillness Illuminated. Endorsed by Peter Covino & Jeff Mann.
Miguel  Hernandez’s Prison Poems, translated by Michael  Smith.

2007
Cindy Savett’s Child in the Road. Endorsed by Jean Valentine & Molly Peacock.
Morgan Lucas Schuldt’s Verge. Endorsed by Carolyn Forche, Lisa Jarnot, Karen Volkman & Barbara Cully.
Dawn Michelle Baude’s The Flying House. Endorsed by Alice Notley and Jennifer Moxley.

2006
Nicolas Pesques’s Physis (translated by Cole Swensen)
Adam Clay’s The Wash. Endorsed by Maurice Manning, Joyelle McSweeney & Michael  Heffernan.
Daniel Tiffany’s Puppet Wardrobe. Endorsed by Gilian Conoley, Susan Wheeler, Andrew Maxwell & Brenda Shaughnessy.
Thomas Lisk’s These Beautiful Limits. Endorsed by Barbra Hamby, Aaron McCollough & Elizabeth Ash Velez.

2005
Peter Riley’s A Map of Faring
Attilio Bertolucci’s Winter Journey  (translated by Nicholas Benson)
Ger Killeen’s Signs Following

II Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics

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I'm the founding editor of Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics.

 Free Verse was an international electronic journal that focused on the finest free verse being written in its day. Launched in 2001, Free Verse was one the most highly-regarded, online poetry journals in the English-speaking world, known for publishing innovative, intelligent poetry, special supplements of poetry in translation, interviews, reviews and roundtables. For the first 24 issues, the journal was a bi-annual. In 2014 it was converted into an annual.

In 2021, after twenty years at the helm, I transferred the journal to the Creative Writing Program at the University of Kent edited by David Herd, Nancy Gaffield, Dorothy Lehane and Simon Smith. At present, the journal is suspended, pending support elsewhere.

III Illuminations: A Series on American Poetics
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Bearing in mind the great legacy of innovation in American poetics in the twentieth century and beyond, Illuminations focuses on the poetics and poetic practices of the contemporary moment in the USA. The series is particularly keen to promote a set of reflective works that include, but go beyond, traditional academic prose, so we take Walter Benjamin's rich, poetic essays published under the title of Illuminations as a signpost for the work we most value. Collectively, the titles published in this series aim to help various audiences engage in a dialogue that will reimagine the field of contemporary American poetics.

To date, titles in the series include:

Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History by Kevin Brown (2024)
The Encounter: A Handbook of Poetic Practice, edited by Jon Thompson (2022)
Things are Completely Simple: Poetry and Translation by Brian Henry (2021)
The Poet's Tomb, by Martin Corliss-Smith (2020)
Vestiges, Notes, Responses, Essays 1988-2018 by Eric Pankey

Sudden Eden: Essays by Donald Revell (2019)
Prose Poetry and the City by Donna Stoneciper (2018)