“Pirate’s Life” by We Cut Corners
As simple as it looks. The entire video is hand-drawn, frame by frame, with markers on paper.… Read More
“Days of 1987” by Christopher Bakken
Christopher Bakken’s second book of poetry, Goat Funeral (Sheep Meadow, 2006) was awarded the Helen C. Smith Memorial Prize by the Texas Institute of Letters for the best book of poetry published… Read More
Eating The Hottest Pepper in the World, The Bhut Jolokia (Naga Ghost Chili)
Do not try this at home, E-Versers!… Read More
“Landscapes: Volume Two” by Dustin Farrell
"Landscapes: Volume 2 is the second of a three part series (probably). Every frame of this video is a raw still from a Canon 5D2 DSLR and processed with Adobe software. In… Read More
“Death by Aesthetics” by Mona Van Duyn
"Characterized by candor and compassion, Van Duyn's poetry depicts the pleasures and drudgeries of middle-class American life, an approach that at its best becomes an exploration of the spiritual and psychological dimensions… Read More
“S*&t!”: Periodic Table of Swearing
Clay produced the interactive Periodic Table of Swearing for Modern Toss. It was built in our Hoxton Street studio during our summer holidays. It's constructed from over 100 buttons, CNC'ed and laser… Read More
“My Blackberry Is Not Working!”: Soooo Dumb it Actually Works
Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in. … Read More
“I Am Very Bothered” by Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage (b. 1963) burst onto the poetry scene with Zoom! in 1989 and quickly established himself as the most high-profile poet in the group dubbed "The New Generation." … Read More
“The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews” by Amy Clampitt
"The recipient in 1982 of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 1984 of an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, [Clampitt] was made a MacArthur Prize Fellow in 1992. She purchased a small house… Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Introduction to the Maude Translation of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Issued as Part of the Canterbury Classics Series
(ERNEST HILBERT) TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace, translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude. San Diego: Baker and Taylor/Thunder Bay, 2011. Stout octavo, hardcover. $24.95. ISBN-10: 1607103109… Read More
“2011: A Space Adventure”: A Short Film by Simon Mesnard
"A cosmonaut was sent to repair an old satellite. He just finished his mission when..." … Read More
“I Did This to My Vocabulary” by Michael Robbins
Michael Robbins’s first book of poems, Alien vs. Predator, will be published by Penguin in 2012. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, London Review of Books, and elsewhere. … Read More
Wanna Live Forever? Become A Noun!
Wanna Live Forever? Become A Noun from NPR on Vimeo.… Read More
“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost
"He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding." - John F. Kennedy … Read More
“Memories Of Old Awake”: a Short Film from Cambridge University
Dr Emily Lethbridge of Cambridge University explored centuries-old Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) over the course of a year-long research trip. Lethbridge discovers that the sagas are closely related to the landscapes and… Read More
Traveling Band . . .
Speed metal! That band is going places! Oh, make up your own, but these guys are funny. … Read More
“At the Archaeological Institute of America Conference” by Ernest Hilbert
All of You on the Good Earth guides the reader through chambers occupied by visionary gravediggers and spaced-out movie stars, frenzied dropouts, sullen pirates, and unrelenting stalkers, noble war correspondents and cornered… Read More
“Tutorial” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of Drunken Boat
"But if the poet’s present seems much more peaceful than the poems’ past, Hilbert is not at all sure that is an advantage. The most savage poems in Welcome to all the… Read More
“Yggdrasil” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Number of Measure
Measure, as a biannual journal, has a mission not only to publish the best new poetry from both established and emerging writers, but also to reprint a small sampling of poems from… Read More
“Page 23” a Short Film by Jeroen Houben
"Amazingly beautiful, yet hoplessly impractical"… Read More
“Hortus” by Fleur Adcock
"Fleur Adcock (b.1934) is a New Zealander by birth but spent part of her childhood in England, returning to live in London in 1963. She worked as a librarian until 1979 before… Read More
“Ah, ah, ah . . .”: The Horrific Plight of Count von Count
TThe Count, a sinister Romanian emigre who currently lives on Sesame Street in Brooklyn, New York, suffers from an obsession with counting, known in medical circles as arithmomania. Those who are cursed… Read More
“Poem In October” by Dylan Thomas
"Robert Graves summed up all lines of attack when he denounced Thomas as 'a demagogic Welsh masturbator who failed to pay his bills.' Over the years there have been honourable critical exceptions… Read More
“Self-Pity / Paranoia / Bitterness / Bile / Weird Lips . . .” Matt Groening’s Guide to the Modern Creative Artistic Types, as True Today as it Was in 1984
How much have poets changed since 1984?… Read More
Two by Quincy Lehr
Quincy R. Lehr was raised in Norman, Oklahoma and presently lives in Brooklyn, having returned to the U.S. after two years in Ireland. His work has appeared in print and online venues… Read More
“After the Rain” by Anthony Hecht
“It was Hecht's gift to see into the darker recesses of our complex lives and conjure to his command the exact words to describe what he found there. Hecht remained skeptical about… Read More
“Bring Me the Sweat of Gabriela Sabatini” by Clive James
“In a culture growing weak from forgetfulness to be memorable should be the aim.” - Clive James… Read More
“The King of Legoland,” a Short Film by Dunun
Music by Hunting Charlie's Band(e) Samuel Vielliard. Video by Micaël Reynaud.… Read More