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“Roll Away The Stone” by Mott The Hoople
Baby if you just say you still care
Follow you most anywhere
Roll away the stone, roll away the stone.
“His Shield” by Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore came to the attention of poets as diverse as Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, H.D., T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound beginning with her first publication in 1915. From 1925 until 1929, Moore served as editor of the literary and cultural journal The Dial. This continued her role, similar to that of Pound, as a patron of poetry; much later, she encouraged promising young poets, including Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery and James Merrill.
Full StoryFall Schedule Unveiled for KGB Bar Poetry!
Mark up your calendar! The new KGB season is here.
Full StoryTop Five Biopics that Depict Wrenching Struggles of Women Artists
Ever heard you have to suffer for your art? Well, Deborah gives us some women artists who suffered more than their share.
Full Story“New research led by Dr Daniel Mitchell at the University of Warwick’s Warwick Medical School has found a novel relationship between high glucose and the immune system in humans”: Longtime E-Verser Dan Mitchell Praised in Several Newspapers
Doctors have long known that diabetics are prone to getting infections, but they couldn’t say with any certainty why these patients are so vulnerable to microbial invaders. Now British researchers think they have solved the mystery. They conducted a series of lab experiments that suggest elevated levels of glucose in the bloodstream – a hallmark of diabetes – inhibit the ability of the body’s immune system to detect and fight bacterial and fungal infections.
Full Story“Poem (The day gets slowly started)” by James Schuyler
Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Schuyler was a central member of the New York School. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and spent his teen years in East Aurora, New York, before attending Bethany College in West Virginia. During World War II, Schuyler served on a destroyer in the North Atlantic and remained in the US Navy until 1947. Before moving to New York in 1950, Schuyler lived for two years on the Isle of Ischia in Italy where he worked as a secretary for W.H. Auden.
Full Story“Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” by The Arcade Fire
And if the snow buries my,
my neighborhood.
And if my parents are crying
then I’ll dig a tunnel
from my window to yours,
yeah a tunnel from my window to yours.
You climb out the chimney
and meet me in the middle,
the middle of the town.
And since there’s no one else around,
we let our hair grow long
and forget all we used to know,
then our skin gets thicker
from living out in the snow.
“SUCH ROOT SATISFACTION . . .”: SIGNED LIMITED TÊTE-BÊCHE EDITION OF THE SECOND BOOK BY DAVID YEZZI AND ERNEST HILBERT
SOLD OUT! THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ORDERED A COPY
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“Untitled Poem [Unslide the door]” by Joshua Beckman
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Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and earned his BA from Hampshire College, where he studied poetry and the art of the book. He is the author of five books of poetry: Things Are Happening (1998); Something I Expected To Be Different (2001); Nice Hat. Thanks. (2002), written with Matthew Rohrer; Your Time Has Come (2004), and most recently, Shake (Wave Books, 2006).
Full StoryBethany’s Top Five Important but not Immediately Obvious No-nos on a First Date: Recommendations from a Straight Woman to Straight Men
Well, who doesn’t like some free advice?
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Philip Levine Discusses Robert Lowell and John Berryman
Philip Levine in conversation with Naomi Jaffa at Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in November 2009. In this excerpt from their discussion, Levine talks about being taught first by Robert Lowell and then by John Berryman at the University of Iowa, where his classmates included Donald Justice, W.D. Snodgrass and Henri Coulette. Levine says a lot more about having Berryman and Yvor Winters as mentors in his memoir THE BREAD OF TIME (1994/2002).
Full Story“We are blind to the / Worlds within us, / Waiting to be born”: “Blinded by Fear” by Scandanavian Metal Gods At the Gates
At The Gates were a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, and a major progenitor of the Gothenburg death metal sound. Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007 for a reunion tour. Their final performance was on 21 September 2008 in Athens.
Full Story“Turn on Me” by The Shins
You can fake it for a while,
bite your tongue and smile,
like every mother does an ugly child.
But it starts to leaking out,
like spittle from a cloud,
amassed resentment
pelting ounce and pound.
“There were ghosts in the eyes / Of all the boys you sent away / They haunt this dusty beach road / In the skeleton frames of burned out chevrolets”: Heading Down the Shore to Sea Isle City!
Share Lynn and I decided to get away for the weekend to Sea Isle City, so here is the most classic of classic Jersey shore songs to get you through the weekend. The screen door slams. Mary’s dress sways. Like a vision she dances across the porch As the radio plays. Roy Orbison singing for [...]
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“Sepsis” by C. Dale Young
C. Dale Young was born in 1969 and grew up in south Florida. He is the author of three collections of poetry: The Day Underneath the Day (Northwestern University Press 2001), The Second Person (Four Way Books 2007), and TORN (Four Way Books, forthcoming 2012). He works full-time as a physician, edits poetry for the New England Review, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. He lives in San Francisco.
Full StoryTop Five Philadelphia Apocalypses
Philadelphia has been described as a “stabilized ruin,” which is true and adds to its rough charm. But it also seems to be ground zero for a number of end-of-the-world scenarios. Let’s have a look at a few.
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“Os Buzios” by Ana Moura
Ana Moura (born 1979 in Santarém, Portugal) is a Portuguese fado singer, and the youngest fadista to be nominated for a Dutch Edison Award.
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Bethany’s Top Five Top Five (or More) Lists I Wish I’d Written, But Didn’t!
As prolific as she is, our senior staff writer Bethany still sometimes gets a little green when she sees the lists other (lesser) talents come up with. Here are a few.
Full Story“When You Ride ALONE You Ride With Hitler” and Other World War Two Propaganda Posters
Dark Roasted Blend says “During World War Two, propaganda posters became something of an art form and some examples are very well known even today. It’s been claimed that truth is often the first casualty of war, and it is very interesting to see how the events of the time were depicted in this selection of posters and leaflets from both sides of the conflict.”
Full Story“Under the Shadow” by Joanie Mackowski
Joanie Mackowski is a poet, teacher, and sometime juggler. Her second book of poems, View from a Temporary Window, will be released by the Pitt Poetry Series in January 2010. Her first book, The Zoo, also from the Pitt Poetry Series, won the AWP Award Series in Poetry and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Mackowski has received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Grant and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship. Her poems appear in The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, edited by David Yezzi, in Best American Poetry 2007, edited by Heather McHugh, and in Best American Poetry 2009, edited by David Wagoner; they’ve also recently appeared in Poetry, The American Scholar, The New England Review, The Yale Review, Kenyon Review and on Slate.
Mackowski was born in 1963 and grew up primarily in Connecticut and in coastal Massachusetts. When she was 21 she drove to California and worked as a journalist, a kitchenware salesperson, an itinerant French translator, and as a juggler. She can juggle five balls, but not very often.
She earned her MFA at the University of Washington in Seattle and her PhD at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She teaches with the Creative Writing Program at the University of Cincinnati, and she’s married to Charlie Green.
Full StoryTop Five Recent Romantic Comedies that in which a Couple has Kid Via Sperm Donor/One-night Stand
We’ll bet you never realized what a tried and true formula this is. Check out some of the top examples of Rom Coms where romance blooms from unplanned pregnancies (this is fantasy, after all).
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