Archive for 'E-Verse Universe'
Paris Review Interview Live with Legendary Poet James Fenton
Winner of both the Queen’s Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, Fenton has given readers some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that marked his debut, Terminal Moraine, to the dramatic and political monologues of The Memory of War and Children in Exile, through to the unforgettable love poems of Out of Danger.
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Bethany’s Top Five Things I Learned from Reading the Book Hitlerland
The recently published Hitlerland is about what Americans who met Hitler and/or lived in Germany in the 1920s and 30s thought of Hitler. It contains their original eye-witness testimony of the growth of the Nazi party and rise of Hitler. It’s very interesting, and surprising that so much of what happened seems to have been right there for all to see even in the earliest days of the 1920s.
Full Story“Lover of Mine” by Beach House
Some dream pop for Monday morning. And check out their new album, Bloom.
Full Story“Assassinating Satires”: Ernest Hilbert Introduces Quincy Lehr
“Gifted with truly biting wit, Quincy R. Lehr is equal parts Beau Brummel and Jacques Brel, Lord Byron and John Dryden, Bob Dylan and Lenny Bruce. He is an Augustan satirist, of both the Roman and British varieties, with the dash and thrust of a Turkish corsair out for blood. Lehr’s verse amuses, stirs, and wounds all at once. His addictive stanzas—ironic, sophisticated, precise and profoundly moral, always venomous but buoyed by wisdom—serve as splendid and welcome antidotes to the suffocating naivety, sameness, and self-indulgence of so much American poetry. With a Luciferian glint in his eyes, he pierces everyday pieties and commonplace pompousness with a well-honed blade!” – Ernest Hilbert
Full Story“The Horses” by Ted Hughes
“Hughes is a vigorous poet – nothing languid about him, and the muscle of his language lifts the ordinary or overlooked experience, turns it about, holds it up to the light, carries it for us, then gently puts it down where we won’t forget it.” – Jeanette Winterson
Full StoryThe Trustworthiness of Beards, an Infographic
I believe mine falls in the area between very trustworthy and mildly trustworthy. How about yours?
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“How Can I Sue Satan?” Cynthia Explains Why We Love Reference Librarians
We all know how amazing reference librarians are. Their ability to point us in the right direction on a myriad of things is nothing short of miraculous. However, they do get their fair share of odd questions. A quick search of librarian message boards are quite interesting in the range of bizarreness. “How can I sue Satan?” “Where can I plug in my hairdryer?” And this gem asked of the Smithsonian reference librarian, “Where do you keep the flying saucers you’ve captured?”
Full Story“Sixteen Saltines” by Jack White
The first single from Jack White’s first solo album. Check it out.
Full StoryTop Five Men Rumored to Cheat on Their Wives But Who Managed to Avoid Scandal Until They Impregnated Someone
You know they’re doing it. You just know. You don’t know why or how you know, but you know. You don’t have any evidence. It’s all fun and games until someone gets pregnant.
Full StorySix Poems by G.M. Palmer
“G.M. Palmer uses authentic and striking language to summon ancient Hellenic gods and heroes, achieving nothing less than an astonishing reanimation of their passions, jealousies, and wars. Palmer’s poems, hard and elegant, are ideally suited to his task. This is a splendid debut by a poet of considerable promise.” — Ernest Hilbert
Full Story*KICKING IN THE AQUARIUM* by Paul Siegell
“. . . countless wildly inventive descriptions of peak emotional states. Siegell’s sense of awe just keeps on coming.” – RATTLE
Full Story“I’m Gonna Wash That Moon Right Out Of My Hair” by Laura Spagnoli
Laura Spagnoli is the author of the chapbook My Dazzledent Days (ixnay press, 2012). Her poems have appeared in various places, including Jupiter 88, ONandOnScreen, and The Apiary, and her story “A Cut Above” was published in the collection Philadelphia Noir. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches French at Temple University.
Full StoryKaboom! Top Five Movies in which Violence is Done to the Statue of Liberty
Why, why, why?
Full Story“The Rest of the Story” by Quincy Lehr
“Gifted with truly biting wit, Quincy R. Lehr is equal parts Beau Brummel and Jacques Brel, Lord Byron and John Dryden, Bob Dylan and Lenny Bruce. He is an Augustan satirist, of both the Roman and British varieties, with the dash and thrust of a Turkish corsair out for blood. Lehr’s verse amuses, stirs, and wounds all at once. His addictive stanzas—ironic, sophisticated, precise and profoundly moral, always venomous but buoyed by wisdom—serve as splendid and welcome antidotes to the suffocating naivety, sameness, and self-indulgence of so much American poetry. With a Luciferian glint in his eyes, he pierces everyday pieties and commonplace pompousness with a well-honed blade!” – Ernest Hilbert
Full StoryBethany’s Top Five “Doctors to the Stars” (and One “Dentist to the Stars”)
“. . . to the stars” is an epithet that many aspire to append to a job description. We at E-Verse aim to be educational, so I want to inform you that it’s incredibly easy to become a Doctor To The Stars. All you need to do is to be incredibly liberal with your prescription pad. Stars will pay big money to docs willing to prescribe some fun. Here are the most successful of the bunch.
Full Story“development” by Ryan Eckes
“What immediately strikes me about OLD NEWS is the commingling of journalistic brevity with everyday vernacular. This combination naturally pulls irony to the surface, which is refreshing in an era when popular culture’s version of irony bombards us. Oftentimes, pop culture leads us to believe that irony isn’t natural and must be produced for us in the form of a sitcom. In turn, this manufactured irony makes it harder to discern true irony when we encounter it. OLD NEWS is journalism—objective and informative—but it is journalism written by someone who knows, whether it is 1923 or 2011, what’s at the core of everyday life.”—Stan Mir
Full StoryThou Shall Not Commit Logical Fallacies
Do you see posts on FaceBook that make you grind your teeth because they’re so simplistic and sanctimonious, leaving out the many and varied complexities of life and politics? How about messages that seem make sense on first blush but when analyzed yield no real content? Or ones that you want to feel are right, wish were right, but just aren’t? Well, a lot of that can be chalked up to fundamental logical fallacies. Here’s a website that details the many paths of stupidity it is possible for one to stroll down, from ad hominem attacks to slippery-slope arguments to the classic appeal to emotion. Check it out by clicking below. Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in.
Full Story“Econo Motel, Ocean City” by Daisy Fried
Daisy Fried is the author of two books of poems, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again (2006) and She Didn’t Mean to Do It (2000), both from University of Pittsburgh Press.
Full StoryYou Want the Definite Article? Here are the Top Five “The” Places
This isn’t just any old thing. It’s THE thing.
Full Story“Cuttings (Later)” by Theodore Roethke
“The greenhouse land of Roethke’s father and uncle provided a setting particularly suitable to the development of these esthetic ends. But the most important reason Roethke chose to write a sequence of poems about this vegetable realm is probably far less complex: as the scene of his childhood, it was a world highly charged with experience and significance. It was, as we have seen, both fertile womb and rigid principle of order imposed upon chaos, both heaven and hell; it was nature and society, mother and father. It was all of life.” – Karl Malkoff
Full Story“Walnut Street” by Ernest Hilbert on Philadelphia Inquirer Website
Ernest Hilbert’s debut collection is Sixty Sonnets (2009). His second collection of poetry, All of You on the Good Earth, will appear in 2013. He lives in Philadelphia.
Full Story“Rome” by Thomas Devaney
Thomas Devaney is poet, teacher, and critic. He is the author of two poetry collections A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum, 2007) and The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee Press, 1999), and a nonfiction book, Letters to Ernesto Neto (Germ Folios, 2005).
Full Story“Gold On The Ceiling” by The Black Keys
“In a time of global austerity, The Black Keys work simply and efficiently, with a minimum of tools and a wealth of ideas, to produce the richest, fattest, coolest music around.”
Full StoryRelative Profundity of the World’s Lakes and Oceans (with Cool Facts about Whales, Chilean Miners, and Sunken Ships)
xkcd.com is a webcomic “of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Check out this very cool poster displaying the relative profundities of the world’s oceans and lakes.
Full StoryTop Five Evil, Capitalist Villains in Recent Films
In December 2011, Fox News set off alarms at the way that the villain, Tex Richman, in the new Muppet movie was teaching kids that capitalism and the oil industry were evil. And who is more opposed to corporate American and profit than Disney, who made the film? Nothing suggests communism more than blockbuster movies!
Full Story“Marilyn Looks Back On Her Dazzledent Days” by Laura Spagnoli
Laura Spagnoli is the author of the chapbook My Dazzledent Days (ixnay press, 2012). Her poems have appeared in various places, including Jupiter 88, ONandOnScreen, and Apiary, and her story “A Cut Above” was published in the collection Philadelphia Noir.
Full Story“Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow” by Robert Duncan
“The meadow is of the poet, but is Other than the poet as well, and in such ambiguity resides the linguistic tension needed for the poem to resolve itself as completed utterance. Turning continually on the dichotomy of inner and outer worlds, the syntax rushes breathlessly forward, shaping the poem into the image of Duncan’s ideal Form, which exists simultaneously in the mind, in the poem, in the exterior world and in a transcendental spiritual reality. The poem, the made place, is the manifestation of the creative will, Duncan’s muse, ‘the Lady,’ ‘the First Beloved,’ who is also the Kabbalistic Shekinah, co-existing with God at the Creation. She inspires the poem even as she brings the poet his dream of children in a ring dancing in the wind-blown field, ‘the place of first permission,’ the scene of initiation into visionary experience. It is here that the poet is permitted to go each time inspiration comes to him, and it is this notion of freedom found in necessity that secures the poem’s lawfulness.” – Norman M. Finklestein
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