“At the round earth’s imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)” by John Donne
John Donne was born in 1572 in London, England. He is known as the founder of the Metaphysical Poets, a term created by Samuel Johnson, an eighteenth-century English essayist, poet, and philosopher.… Read More
“New Criticism Literary Theory Book Title or Self-Aggrandizing Male Genital Nickname?” by Daniel Nester
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“Anna, Emma” by Deborah Warren
Deborah Warren's poems have appeared, or will appear, in America, The Atlanta Review, Commonweal, Cumberland Poetry Review, Edge City Review, The Formalist, Orbis, The Paris Review, Sparrow, and other journals. … Read More
Sixty Sonnets Cameo at Santa Monica Book Fair
An E-Verse reader sent in this picture of Sixty Sonnets, which seems to have sneaked into the Santa Monica Book Fair to be seen with all the real books . . .… Read More
“Vanishing Twin” by Catherine Tufariello
Catherine Tufariello's work has appeared in The Hudson Review, Poetry and Yale Italian Poetry (translations). She lives in Indiana, where she and her husband teach at Valparaiso University, with their daughter.… Read More
Revival of the “Local” Crocodile Cults
My favorite object in the British Museum is one you’ve likely strolled past dozens or even hundreds of times without giving it the slightest notice. When one is confronted with colossal Sassanid… Read More
“Poem before Sunrise” by Peter Campion
Peter Campion, Assistant Professor, received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, and his M.A. from Boston University. He's the author of two collections of poems, Other People (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and… Read More
“Fight or Flight” by Ernest Hilbert
For a retired boxer Trekking city streets, I am mercury Tilting in glints down a vertical grid. I am as much an Iliadic As a cool Odyssean entity. I force my course,… Read More
E-Verse Tops 16,000 Readers for the Month!
Well, that's a nice leap. When we last reported our numbers, back in June, we had just broken the 14,000 reader mark (that's individual readers, regardless of how many times each visited… Read More
“The map room” by Joshua Clover
Joshua Clover (b. 30 December 1962 in Berkeley, California) is a poet, critic, journalist and author. He has appeared in three editions of Best American Poetry, is a two-time winner of the… Read More
“Gold Rush (On Disposing of an Old Sofa)” by Ernest Hilbert
What natural or man-made wonders will we Prospect in those crevasses and gullies, Boulders blotted blue as soggy lilacs With lichen and cloud shadow? It’s all free: So dive a palm down… Read More
“Spleen” by Pimone Triplett
Pimone Triplett. Pimone Triplett is the author of The Price of Light (2005) and Ruining the Picture (1998). She has been the recipient of the Levis Poetry Prize and the Hazel Hall… Read More
Breaking up a cyst using “Bible Bumps” with Atlas Shrugged (This Will Make More Sense in a Moment)
The glamorous Manhattanite bibliophile Cynthia developed a small bible bump at the recent Baltimore Antiques Show. She came to our booth to complain of it, and a solution was proposed. Because I… Read More
“Proverbs of Hell” From “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” by William Blake
Unlike that of Milton or Dante, Blake's conception of Hell begins not as a place of punishment, but as a source of unrepressed, somewhat Dionysian energy, opposed to the authoritarian and regulated… Read More
Sixty Sonnets Sticker Sighted in Bathroom Stall at Baltimore Antiques Show!
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“Poetry Is a Destructive Force” by Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens is a rare example of a poet whose main output came at a fairly advanced age. His first major publication (four poems from a sequence entitled "Phases" in the November… Read More
More Fun with Double Rainbows
While I was out in New Mexico recently, E-Verse producer Paul posted this funny viral video, and several variants, in which awed hikers gush enthusiastically at the sight of the ever elusive… Read More
“Epitaphs” by Ernest Hilbert
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“His Shield” by Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore came to the attention of poets as diverse as Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, H.D., T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound beginning with her first publication in 1915. From… Read More
“New research led by Dr Daniel Mitchell at the University of Warwick’s Warwick Medical School has found a novel relationship between high glucose and the immune system in humans”: Longtime E-Verser Dan Mitchell Praised in Several Newspapers
Doctors have long known that diabetics are prone to getting infections, but they couldn’t say with any certainty why these patients are so vulnerable to microbial invaders. Now British researchers think they… Read More
“Poem (The day gets slowly started)” by James Schuyler
Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Schuyler was a central member of the New York School. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and spent his teen years in East Aurora, New York,… Read More
“She Discovers an Unsent E-Mail to an Ex-Boyfriend” by Ernest Hilbert
1. She Discovers an Unsent E-Mail to an Ex-Boyfriend by Ernest Hilbert online pharmacy buy estrace no insurance with best prices today in the USA I’m sorry I left you that day… Read More
“Untitled Poem [Unslide the door]” by Joshua Beckman
Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and earned his BA from Hampshire College, where he studied poetry and the art of the book. He is the author of five books… Read More
“There were ghosts in the eyes / Of all the boys you sent away / They haunt this dusty beach road / In the skeleton frames of burned out chevrolets”: Heading Down the Shore to Sea Isle City!
Lynn and I decided to get away for the weekend to Sea Isle City, so here is the most classic of classic Jersey shore songs to get you through the weekend. The… Read More
“Sepsis” by C. Dale Young
C. Dale Young was born in 1969 and grew up in south Florida. He is the author of three collections of poetry: The Day Underneath the Day (Northwestern University Press 2001),… Read More
“Reality TV” by Ernest Hilbert
1. Reality TV by Ernest Hilbert Gossip often centers on TV shows Viewers have in common. This is not strange. What else can be so equal and shared? Discussions of real estate,… Read More
“When You Ride ALONE You Ride With Hitler” and Other World War Two Propaganda Posters
Dark Roasted Blend says "During World War Two, propaganda posters became something of an art form and some examples are very well known even today. It’s been claimed that truth is often… Read More
“Under the Shadow” by Joanie Mackowski
Joanie Mackowski is a poet, teacher, and sometime juggler. Her second book of poems, View from a Temporary Window, will be released by the Pitt Poetry Series in January 2010. Her first… Read More
“Guide to the Modern Man (Beach Issue!)” by Ernest Hilbert
Despite valiant headlines to such effect, What the hell could GQ, Stuff, or Esquire Know of big topics like “The Modern Man”? Do they know, really, that he needs respect, Real-life models… Read More