Merry Christmas, Everyone
I'll bet this family is going to have a very merry Christmas. … Read More
“Lines on the Winter Solstice” 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… Read More
“Santa Claus” by Howard Nemerov
When David Yezzi recommended "The Town Dump" by Howard Nemerov as Wednesday's poem, he sparked off two more posts. I came up with the top five junkyard poems on my trolley ride… Read More
“The Town Dump” by Howard Nemerov
Regarding his fame, Nemerov told Jake Thompson of the Chicago Tribune, "You do the best you can and really don't worry about immortality all that much, especially as you have to be… Read More
Cruising for a Bruising? How about Angling for a Strangling? Or Aiming for a Laming? Ben Downing Sets Out to See How Many Ways We Can Say It
Ben Downing writes: Christopher Hitchens mentions in Hitch-22 that he and his friends once amused themselves by coming up with synonyms for "cruising for a bruising" (the four he names are "angling… Read More
“The Garden” by Andrew Marvell
"Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell’s ward, satirist, and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most significant poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his… Read More
“Baradiel Loading Gunpowder into His Harquebus” by Odi Gonzales
From Odi Gonzales’s collection La Escuela de Cusco [The School of Cusco], (Santiago de Surco, Peru: Ediciones el Santo Oficio-Gráficos, 2005), translated by Lynn Levin was first published in. … Read More
“The Ball Poem” by John Berryman
John Berryman was born John Smith in McAlester, Oklahoma, in 1914. He received an undergraduate degree from Columbia College in 1936 and attended Cambridge University on a fellowship. He taught at Wayne… Read More
David Yezzi Discusses the Importance of “Small Magazines” at Victory Collaborative
David Yezzi says a few words about the importance and durability of quality literary magazines. … Read More
“On Reading Crowds and Power” by Geoffrey Hill
Geoffrey Hill was born in Worcestershire, England in 1932. From a working-class family, Hill attended Oxford where his work was first published by the poet Donald Hall. These poems later collected in… Read More
“Don’t start trotting out complex arguments about the cultural influence of baby boomers or the role of legendary bands in a ‘narrowcast’ culture—you’re disliking a band, not writing a trend article for Wired”: How to Hate the Beatles, a Step by Step Guide by Nitsuh Abebe
It might surprise you, but plenty of people don't like the Beatles. Hell, some people can't stand Shakespeare. To be fair, though, nothing is more boring than a Beatles factoid fanatic (except… Read More
“Jellied Eels: Ready to Eat”: Really? E-Verser Sends in the Grossest Packaged Foods Ever
Head over to the Huffington Post to see some of the grossest packaged foods you can imagine. Not safe for those with weak stomachs.… Read More
“Splitting Ice” by Kay Ryan
Kay Ryan's latest book is The Best of It: New and Selected Poems. She recently completed two terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States.… Read More
E-Verse Climbs to 29,000 Readers this Month . . . Can 30,000 Be Far Away?
29,000 unique (in every sense of the word) readers so far this month. Let's see if we can't break 30,000 before Christmas!… Read More
“The Last Supper” by Odi Gonzales
From Odi Gonzales’s collection La Escuela de Cusco [The School of Cusco], (Santiago de Surco, Peru: Ediciones el Santo Oficio-Gráficos, 2005), translated by Lynn Levin was first published in. … Read More
“Harry Pooter?”: Damn You Autocorrect!
Technology should serve the body, not control the mind, or so William Burroughs once intoned in a Nike commercial. Lots of things intended to help us actually get in our way, like… Read More
“In this house we obey the laws of Thermodynamics!”: Like the Simpsons? Would You Like to Live in Their House? Now You Can!
Imagine living in the house where Homer throttles Bart, Lisa blows a sad song on her sax, and Marge tries to hold it all together. Now you can, if you've got a… Read More
“History” by Ernest Hilbert
We can talk of eras and epochs, But life smudges over easy margins, Blows down fences, confuses neat frontiers. We may witness sunsets and check our clocks, But authentic change is slow,… Read More
“A Legend about Cats” by Ernest Hilbert
From the new issue of the Asheville Poetry Review. … Read More
“Genealogies” by Ernest Hilbert
1. Geneologies by Ernest Hilbert 2. Genealogies by Ernest Hilbert I envy those who trace their families back And back, to covered wagons, Bunker Hill, The Mayflower, and Bayeux Tapestry. Some can… Read More
“The Pessimist Prepares for What May Well Be His Last Winter”
1. The Pessimist Prepares for What May be His Last Winter by Ernest Hilbert I have been released into harsh Autumn And witness ash of cruel light on skylines. Dusk draws in… Read More
“The Driver of the Car Is Unconscious” by Timothy Donnelly
Timothy Donnelly's Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit was published by Grove Press in 2003. The Cloud Corporation was published by Wave Books in 2010. He is poetry editor for… Read More
SNL’s Take on Black Friday: Very Funny!
Mega Mart is promoting some Black Friday deals unlike anything you've ever seen.… Read More
“Church Street” by Ernest Hilbert
1. Church Street by Ernest Hilbert For Daniel Nester My friends quietly dropped out of high school. It seemed each week we had parties for some guy Going into jail or getting… Read More
Have a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving
From all of us at E-Verse. And remember: Even if your Thanksgiving doesn't look like this one (whose does?), be thankful for what you've got. … Read More
Man Makes Ridiculously Complicated Chart To Find Out Who Owns His Mortgage
Thanks to the Huffington Post for this one. … Read More
“Leningrad” by Ernest Hilbert
From the new issue of the Asheville Poetry Review. … Read More