“Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam” by Rob Whitworth
by Ernie on 25/01/12 at 9:54 am
“Everyone who has visited Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam knows part of the magic (love it or hate it) is in the traffic. Ever since I first set foot in HCMC I have been captivated by the cities energy. Saigon is a city on the move unlike anything I have experienced before which I wanted to capture and share.”
Full Story“Imagining Starry” by Marie Ponsot
“What she has written of her relation to the night sky—’it becomes the infinite / air of imagination that stirs immense / among losses and leaves me less desolate’—could be claimed by her readers as a description of her own work, which pulls us always to forms of thought and attention that surprise and enlarge and cheer us.” – Susan Stewart
Full StoryBethany’s Top Five Appalling Things the State of Arizona has Done Recently
Hey, Arizona, what’s up?
Full StoryMarie Osmond on DaDa Poet Hugo Ball
Thanks to Matthew Zapruder for bringing this to my attention.
Full StoryTop Five Random Facts about Newt Gingrich
Some things you might like to know about the man who may be president.
Full Story“A Modern Herbal: Juglans Nigra” by Amy Glynn Greacen
Amy Glynn Greacen is a poet, novelist, and food writer. She was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and educated at Mount Holyoke college and Lancaster University, England. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The New Criterion, Southern Poetry Review, The Potomac Review and The Best American Poetry 2010. She lives near San Francisco with her family.
Full Story“Si Non Te Veo Feliche Morte” (“If I Don’t Ever See You, Die Happy”)
One of my favorite word sites, savethewords.org, has gone dark just like many of the obscure and archaic words that it tried to save . . .
Full Story“In the Dead Air” by Glyn Maxwell
Glyn Maxwell was born in 1962 in Welwyn Garden City, England. He is the author of several collections of poems, including Out of the Rain (1992), for which he received a Somerset Maugham Award; Rest for the Wicked (1995), which was short-listed for both the Whitbread Poetry Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize; and The Breakage (1998), which was short-listed for both the T.S. Eliot and the Forward Poetry (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) prizes. Maxwell lives in London.
Full Story“An Equation for My Children” by Wilmer Mills
Acclaimed as a careful practitioner of form and meter, Mills received praise for the dramatic monologues of his first book, Light for the Orphans (2002). Influenced by poets such as Robert Frost and Richard Wilbur, Mills evoked an older, pastoral landscape and its denizens with skill and sympathy. His poems were published in various journals, including New Criterion, Poetry, New Republic, Hudson Review, and Shenandoah, among others. With his wife and two children, Mills lived and worked in Sewanee, Tennessee in a house he built himself. He died in 2011.
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“I have been studying how I may compare / This prison where I live unto the world”: David Yezzi Recites Richard II’s Soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Richard II, V.5
David Yezzi, poet, critic, editor, librettist, playwright, and trained Shakespearean actor, takes on one of the great soliloquies and delivers with astounding power.
Full Story“Hawk” by Wendy Videlock
Wendy Videlock lives in Western Colorado. Her book, Nevertheless is available from Able Muse Press.
Full StorySo You Think You Got Game? Try This!
BTW: I used to be just a regular E-Verser like you . . . then I took an arrow to the knee.
Full Story“On the Corner” by Ernest Hilbert
Edinburgh’s oldest literary journal and released three times a year, The Edinburgh Review has been transforming the critical landscape since 1802. Issue 133 features poetry by Paul Muldoon, Ernest Hilbert, Jen Hadfield, David Wheatley and many more!
Full Story“Guns ‘N Roses” by Austin MacRae
Austin MacRae’s poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, 32 Poems, Birmingham Poetry Review, Stone Canoe, and The Cortland Review.
Full StoryTop Five Far-Fetched Infidelity Excuses
When famous folks get caught in “compromising positions,” they often explain that nothing is what it seems to be, or that their actions weren’t really improper for some reason. Here are five notorious ones they’ve tried on us recently. Do they really think we’re that dumb? Wait, don’t answer.
Full Story“Song” by Frank O’Hara
O’Hara was at the heart of a vibrant artistic circle that embraced fellow New York School poets John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, as well as experimental painters such as Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, and Jasper Johns. Their achievements are movingly celebrated in many of his poems, while at the same time he paid loving tribute to popular idols such as James Dean and Lana Turner.
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“Get Away” by Yuck
“A well-rounded Nineties indie rock mixtape. Yuck’s self-titled debut album has a comforting, familiar sound, but the appeal isn’t limited to nostalgia–Blumberg and his bandmates have a talent for penning memorable hooks and gorgeous harmonies on par with the best work of the bands that inspired them.” – Rolling Stone
Full StoryThe Future is Almost Here! Top Five Near-Futures, Hollywood Edition
It’s 2012 (can you believe it?) and the future is upon us! Nineteen Eighty-Four, Space 1999, 2001: A Space Odyssey, its sequel, 2010, the late 20th-century World War III predicted in Star Trek, all are more-or-less distant memories, and none came to pass. But some of the past’s futures are still in the future! Let’s check on them and see if we’re on schedule.
Full StoryTop Five Things Disappearing from the Real World Only to Live On Virtually
Not to mention tablets, pads, and notebooks. Watch out, mice! You’re next!
Full StoryQuincy R. Lehr and Paul Siegell Enter the Studio to Record Tracks for Legendary Misbehavior LP
“You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.” – Art Buchwald
Full Story“Paper Memories” by Theo Putzu
Special Mention at VISIONARIA 2010 – Piombino – Italy
Special Jury Prize at BOLZANO SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2010 – Bolzano – Italy
Special Jury Prize at Festival CinemaZERO 2010 – Trento – Italy
Nomination for “BEST EDITING” at GRAND OFF 2010 – Warsaw – Poland
Best Short Film at CORTO CORTO MON AMOUR 2010 – Cinisi – Italy
Best Short Film at CORTI CIRCUITI 2010 – Calderara di Reno – Italy
Special Jury Prize at MIGLIO D’ORO FILM FESTIVAL 2010 – Portici – Italy
Best Short Film at FESTIVAL CORTO XX 2010 – Roma – Italy
Best International Short Film at FESTIVAL PONTINO DEL CORTOMETRAGGIO 2011 – Latina – Italy
Nomination for “BEST DRAMA SHORTFILM” at Festival STOKE YOUR FIRE 2011- Stoke-on-Trent – UK
Special Mention at Festival VISIONI ITALIANE 2011 – Bologna, Italy
Best Editing at FESTIVAL A CORTO DI IDEE 2011 – Ravello, Italy.
Best Short Film at FESTIVAL SCHERMI IRREGOLARI 2011 – Bagno a Ripoli, Italy
Best Actor at SOLOFRA FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – Solofra, Italy
Audience Awards at DISPOSABLE FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – San Francisco, USA
Best Short Film at PARMA VIDEO FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – Parma, Italy
Special Jury Prize at CESATE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – Cesate, Italy
Best Experimental Short Film at FILM VIDEO MONTECATINI 2011 – Montecatini, Italy
Second Prize at FESTIVAL INVENTA UN FILM 2011 – Lenola, Italy
Best cinematography at FESTIVAL INVENTA UN FILM 2011 – Lenola, Italy
Best Editing at FESTIVAL INVENTA UN FILM 2011 – Lenola, Italy
Special Mention at SCREENGRAB NEW MEDIA ARTS AWARD 2011 – Townsville, Australia.
Jury prize at TRANI FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – Trani, Italy.
Special Mention at SCIACCA FILM FEST 2011 – Sciacca, Italy.
Best ShortFilm/New Technologies at UNDERGROUND CISTERNA FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – Cisterna, Italy.
Best Cinematography at UNDERGROUND CISTERNA FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – Cisterna, Italy.
Best Screenplay at UNDERGROUND CISTERNA FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – Cisterna, Italy.
Best Short film at WORDLESS FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – Acquaviva delle Fonti, Italy.
Best Foreign Short Film at CORTOLOVERE 2011 – Lovere, Italy.
Best experimental Short Film at I’VE SEEN FILMS 2011 – Milan, Italy.
Best Short Film at NOVARA FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – Novara, Italy.
Best Short Film at MESTRE FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – Mestre, Italy.
Third prize at FESTIVAL CORTODINO 2011 – Torre Annunziata, Italy.
Best Cinematography at SEMANA DE CINE EXPERIMENTAL DE MADRID 2011 – Madrid, Spain.
Best experimental Short Film at TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – Tirana, Albania.
Online award “experimental” at TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – Tirana, Albania.
Best Short Film at CORTIAMO 2011 – Alcamo, Italy.
E-Verser Cynthia Reports from the Front Lines of the No Pants Subway Ride
E-Verse correspondent Cynthia sends in some photos from the 2012 No Pants Subway Ride, NYC edition.
Full Story“Flatirons” by David Yezzi
David Yezzi’s books of poetry are Sad Is Eros and The Hidden Model. His libretto for a chamber opera by David Conte, Firebird Motel, received its world premiere in 2003 and was released on CD by Arsis in 2007. His poems and criticism have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, The Best American Poetry 2006, and elsewhere. He is executive editor of the New Criterion.
Full Story“Earth: Time Lapse View from Space, Flyover, NASA, ISS” by Michael König
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km.
Full Story“You Play Dean and I’ll Play Sal”: Jack Kerouac Writes to Marlon Brando Urging Him to Make a Movie of On the Road
Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in.
Full Story“At the Edge of the Parking Lot” by Chris Bullard
“Christopher Bullard’s poems deal with the Big Themes: aging, mortality, death, loss of height and loss of hair. But don’t despair: these poems will leave you with a bigger dose of mordancy than you can fit in a shot glass, beauty alongside terror.” – Moira Egan
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