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

 Free Verse is an annual, international electronic journal that focuses on the finest free verse being written today. Launched in 2001, Free Verse is 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. It is currently being edited by David Herd, Nancy Gaffield, Dorothy Lehane and Simon Smith: see the journal here.