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Cee Lo Sings His Runaway Hit “F*&K YOU!” (Not Safe for Children, OK, People?)

Thomas DeCarlo Callaway (born May 30, 1974), better known by his stage name Cee-Lo Green, is an American hip hop, funk, soul, and R&B musician. He is a singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer, best known as a member of Goodie Mob and more recently Gnarls Barkley, and has also recorded two critically acclaimed solo LPs. He’s also known for his strong Southern accent and smooth harmonizing vocals. Among Cee-Lo’s solo hits are the singles “Closet Freak” (2002) and “I’ll Be Around” (2003), produced by and featuring Timbaland. He also performed backing vocals on multi-platinum selling R&B girl band TLC’s 1995 #1 single “Waterfalls”.

Top Five Songs about Interracial Romance

Share5. “My Humps” by the Black Eyed Peas 4. “White Boys/Black Boys” from the musical Hair 3. “Brown Sugar” by the Rolling Stones 2. “China Girl” by David Bowie 1. “Vanilla Ice Cream” by Stephen Lynch

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“To My Friends” by Joseph Harrison

Joseph Harrison was born in Richmond, Virginia, grew up in Virginia and Alabama, and studied at Yale and Johns Hopkins. His first book of poems, Someone Else’s Name, was published by the Waywiser Press in the United Kingdom in 2003, and by Zoo Press in the U.S. in 2004. It was named as one of five recommended poetry books for 2004 by the Washington Post, and was a finalist for the 2005 Poets’ Prize. In 2005 he received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His second book of poems, Identity Theft, was published by Waywiser (in the U.S. and the U.K.) in 2008.

Top Five List of Top Ten Lists

ShareHere at E-Verse, we get a little obsessed with lists. Our Top Fives are a staple and certainly more efficient than the top tens or twenty lists. Who has so much time these days to read a top twenty? TIme and Newsweek have been big on lists over the past few years and it looks [...]

Sometimes Double Rainbows are Really, Really Exciting

ShareHere at E-Verse, we get excited over all sorts of things. A good book will obviously send us into a tizzy. Double Rainbows though, probably haven’t yielded a great deal of wild euphoria that we should be showing towards them. If you haven’t seen anything about the Yosemitebear Meme it all stemmed from one video [...]

“Poem Begun on the Autumn Equinox” by Ernest Hilbert

“The Otherwise Sedentary Novelist Finds his Fantasy Turns Out All Wrong” by Ernest Hilbert

ShareHer ass was just as hard as Formica. Her knuckles in his side were like rock drills. This wasn’t turning out to be much fun. Still, he’d come so far. There’s nothing like a No-frills kick, but these were not even “thrills” In the conventional sense of the term. “When you try kickboxing down at [...]

“Memories of West Street and Lepke” by Robert Lowell

ShareOnly teaching on Tuesdays, book-worming in pajamas fresh from the washer each morning, I hog a whole house on Boston’s “hardly passionate Marlborough Street,” where even the man scavenging filth in the back alley trash cans, has two children, a beach wagon, a helpmate, and is “a young Republican.” I have a nine months’ daughter, [...]

Top Five Roles in which Julianne Moore Plays a Troubled Mid-20th-Century Housewife

Typecasting? Maybe it’s to soon to tell. Maybe she simply excels at that sort of role, a smoldering woman in the supposedly stifling Eisenhower years.

“Empty Houses”: Ernest Hilbert Remember Rachel Wetzsteon

ShareThe web magazine Able Muse recently posted a number of eloquent and moving tributes to the late poet Rachel Wetzsteon. You may read remembrances by Gregory Dowling, David Mason, A.E. Stallings, Rachel Hadas, David Yezzi, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Lorna Knowles Blake, and Robert E. Clark by clicking here. “Empty Houses”: Ernest Hilbert Remember Rachel Wetzsteon [...]

“Terminal” by John Foy

John Foy’s first book of poems is Techne’s Clearinghouse (Zoo Press).

Invasion USA: Top Five Movies/TV Shows Depicting the US Being Invaded by Other Countries or by Aliens

Share5. War of the Worlds: The radio program, as narrated by Orson Wells and based on H.G. Wells’ novel, was the original invasion USA event, since many thought he was narrating actual events, rather than a fictional account. But Spielberg’s 2005 adaptation does a good job of showing the terror of an invading force in [...]

“Mirage” by Ernest Hilbert

Calculated to reflect the sixty minutes in an hour of heightened imaginative contemplation, the poems in Ernest Hilbert’s first book, Sixty Sonnets, contain memories of violence, historical episodes, humorous reflections, quiet despair, violent discord, public outrage, and private nightmares. A cast of fugitive characters share their desperate lives—failed novelists, forgotten literary critics, cruel husbands, puzzled historians, armed robbers, jobless alcoholics, exasperated girlfriends, high school dropouts, drowned children, and defeated boxers. These characters populate love poems (“My love, we know how species run extinct”), satires (“The way of the human variety, / Not even happy just being happy”), elegies (The cold edge of the world closed on you, kissed / You shut”), and songs of sorrow (“Seasons start slowly. They end that way too”). The original rhyme scheme devised for this sequence—ABCABCDEFDEFGG—allows the author to dust off of the Italian “little song” and Americanize the Elizabethan love poem for the twenty-first century. Speaking at times in propria persona (“We’ll head out, you and me, have a pint”), at times in the voice of both male and female characters (“I’m sorry I left you that day at MoMA”), at times across historical gulfs (“Caesar and Charlemagne, Curie, Capone”), Sixty Sonnets marshals both trivia and tragedy to tell stories of modern America, at last achieving a hard-won sense of careful optimism, observing “the last, noble pull of old ways restored, / Valued and unwanted, admired and ignored.”

Bethany’s Top Five Mythic Works about the Confederacy

ShareConfederate History Month has been declared! It’s in April. There seems to be a growing trend to celebrate this holiday, and it is becoming more controversial, too. But I say let’s take a look at some of the great and glorious achievements of the Confederacy, and judge for ourselves whether or not it’s a good [...]

“On the Longing of Early Explorers” by Elizabeth Bradfield

ShareI would prefer one hour of conversation with a native of terra australis incognita to one with the most learned man in Europe. —Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, 1740 Before satellites eyed the earth’s whole surface through the peephole of orbit, before we all were tracked by numbers trailing from us like a comet’s tail—O [...]

“My Wife Reads the Paper at Breakfast on the Birthday of the Scottish Poet” by Miller Williams

Miller Williams (born April 8, 1930) is an American contemporary poet, as well as a translator and editor. He has authored over twenty-five books and won several awards for his poetry. His accomplishments have been chronicled in Arkansas Biography. However, he is perhaps best known for reading a poem at President Clinton’s 1997 inauguration.

“With increasing official recognition, her abstractions, pseudo-philosophizing, self-importance, and centerless long lines have completely spun out of control”: Check out Anis Shivani’s “Fifteen Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers”

Are the writers receiving the major awards and official recognition really the best writers today? Or are they overrated mediocrities with little claim to recognition by posterity? The question is harder than ever to answer today, yet it is a worthwhile exercise to attempt (along with identifying underrated writers not favored by bureaucracy).

“White Castle” by Matthew Zapruder

Matthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry: American Linden, The Pajamaist, and Come On All You Ghosts, forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2010. He has received a William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. In Fall 2010 he will be the Holloway Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley. An editor for Wave Books, he lives in San Francisco

“I can see the sun setting fast / and just like they say, nothing good ever lasts”: Iris Dement sings “Our Town”

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“Everything Dies, Baby, that’s a Fact”: Bruce Springsteen Sings “Atlantic City”

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A Jersey Girl!: “Sweet Memory” and more sung by the stunning Melody Gardot

Melody Gardot (born February 2, 1985 in New Jersey) is a Grammy-nominated American singer, writer and musician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, though she considers herself a “citizen of the world.” She has been influenced by such blues and jazz artists as Judy Garland, Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Stan Getz and George Gershwin as well as Latin music artists such as Caetano Veloso.

“Advertisement for the Mountain” by Christina Davis

Christina Davis is the author of Forth A Raven (Alice James Books, 2006) and Raven’s Brew (Firefly, 2008). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Jubilat, The May Anthologies (selected by Ted Hughes), New Republic, Paris Review and other publications. She is the recipient of residencies from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford, she is currently Curator at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University, and the poetry editor of Nightboat Books.

“Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too” by James Hall

ShareAll my pwoblems who knows, maybe evwybody’s pwoblems is due to da fact, due to da awful twuth dat I am SPIDERMAN. I know. I know. All da dumb jokes: No flies on you, ha ha, and da ones about what do I do wit all doze extwa legs in bed. Well, dat’s funny yeah. [...]

Two Epigrams by Martial, translated by William Matthews

Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial) (March 1, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD), was a Latin poet from Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these short, witty poems he cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. He wrote a total of 1,561, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. He is considered to be the creator of the modern epigram.

Top Five People Who Died Just Before Fame Struck (including Two Lar[r]sons)

Share5. Adrienne Shelly: She wrote, directed, and acted in the movie Waitress (2007), which would become her most successful film to date after years of making highly regarded but little-seen indie films. Waitress was her first foray into the limelight. She was murdered several months before its release. 4. Sylvia Plath: She enjoyed minor success [...]

Wear Your Books at “Out of Print T-Shirts”

ShareCheck out the selection of classic book covers available over at www.outofprintclothing.com by clicking on Naked Lunch.

“Suicide of a Moderate Dictator” by Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop was born in 1911 in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was independently wealthy, and from 1935 to 1937 she spent time traveling to France, Spain, North Africa, Ireland, and Italy and then settled in Key West, Florida, for four years. Her poetry is filled with descriptions of her travels and the scenery which surrounded her, as with the Florida poems in her first book of verse, North and South, published in 1946.

Top Five Examples of the Insidious Creep of Blue/orange Art into Our Lives

ShareWait, what are we talking about? OK, in sum: For various reasons, Hollywood has been increasingly using the blue/orange pallet in films. This kind of adjustment is easy now that everything is digital. It’s particularly pronounced in advertisements and movie trailers. You may not have noticed this yet, but once it’s been pointed out to [...]

“Release the . . . Ummmm, the Kraken?”

ShareThanks to E-Verser Charles for sending this one in.