Archive for 'E-Verse Universe'
Witness the Death of Mercury Radio Theater (with Promo and Movie Featuring Ernest Hilbert)!
Unfortunately I’ll be in LA this night, but I’ll be up on the big screen over the band! Check out the video.
Full Story“Road Rage” by Nick Khoo
“Dedicated to all those jerks who cut me off on the road. You know who you are . . . Animated in After Effects.”
Full Story“Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” by Fleet Foxes Drummer Joshua Tillman’s New Project Father John Misty Featuring Aubrey Plaza
Aubrey Plaza has perfected the bored, disappointed, disapproving pout on Parks & Rec, but on the new video for Father John Misty we get to see her making every possible face as she flips out at a family funeral. Fun.
Full StoryErnest Hilbert Name-Checked in TLS
Odd to see your name in print when you’re not expecting it.
Full StoryTop Five Goofy Covers of Sir Mix a Lot’s “Baby Got Back”
“My anaconda don’t want none / Unless you’ve got buns, hun.”
Full Story“Among Philistines” by R.S. Gwynn
Poet, scholar, editor, and critic R.S. Gwynn was born in Eden, North Carolina. He received a BA from Davidson College, where he twice won the Vereen Bell Award for Creative Writing, and he earned both an MA and an MFA from the University of Arkansas, where he won the John Gould Fletcher Award for Poetry. Gwynn has also won the Michael Braude Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Full StoryErnest Hilbert’s Introduction to Four Charles Dickens Novels, Issued in the Canterbury Classics Series
Yeah, you might even see me in Sam’s Club.
Full StoryYes You Really Can Take It With You! Part 2, the Extreme Bookcase
Cynthia brings us a bookshelf that doubles . . . as your coffin.
Full StoryYes You Really Can Take It With You, Part 1
Cynthia shows us how we can take our books with us wherever we go (no Kindle jokes!).
Full StoryTop Five (Literal) Masks People have Worn to Conceal Themselves for Political Purposes
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
Full StoryGet Ready to Wwwaaaaaste Some Tiiiiiiiiiime: 25 More of the Most Interesting Wikipedia Pages
Yeah, you thought you were going to get some work done today . . .
Full StoryPoe for kids? You bet!
Kids are never too young to hear rich language. I recently came across a wonderful series of books called “Poetry for Young People.” The series devotes one book to each poet. There is a mini biography of the poet, a small introductory paragraph about each poem, definitions of less common words and variations, as well as [...]
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Top Five Fun Facts about Kim Jong Il
There are many online lists detailing weird things about Kim Jong-Il, but they generally miss lesser known, but equally fascinating facts about the dear leader. I have a strange fascination with North Korea, so when Kim died, I took considerable interest in what went on and combed for lesser-known factoids. Here they are.
Full Story“Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam” by Rob Whitworth
“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.
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