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Poetry

“Coffee and Oranges” by Joel Brouwer

By On September 16, 2009

The music on TV turned gloomy. Sharks, she said, and sure enough. A blunt snout, jumbled cemetery of teeth, and quick black depthless eye thrashed the screen. Coffee and oranges made the… Read More

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“The Waking” by Theodore Roethke

By On September 14, 2009

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“At the Fishhouses” by Elizabeth Bishop

By On September 13, 2009

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Some Damned Fine Star Wars Ripoff Posters

By On September 13, 2009

The internet is a wonderful thing, filled with free resources like this one: a selection of posters that rip off Star Wars imagery (for a few years there, everything ripped off Star… Read More

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“Plethoric Air” by Luke Kennard

By On September 11, 2009

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By On September 10, 2009

We’ve all seen them and wondered: Are these scare quotes? We usually lump them together with unnecessary capitalization (that needs its own blog). Now, someone has taken the time to assemble a… Read More

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By On September 9, 2009

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“September Song” by Geoffrey Hill

By On September 9, 2009

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“At Shark Reef Sanctuary” by Eva Alice Counsell

By On September 8, 2009

Only seagulls surround us balanced on their parameter of hunger, and seals who in their soft-body swim roll onto the rocks to stretch their skin to infinite edges. They lie about like… Read More

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“hello, how are you?” by Charles Bukowski

By On September 7, 2009

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“Portrait of Young Poet as a Wagtail” by John Mccullough

By On September 6, 2009

He prefers a life of battlements, a ledge close to collapse and astounding gusts of spray. Looking up, he meets a crag’s flint-eyed gaze with his own black stare then rests, content. … Read More

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E-Verser Cowboy

By On September 5, 2009

An E-Verser is indeed a cowboy, out in Santa Fe. I regularly argue that there are very few actual cowboys, particularly when compared with the fantastic number of guys who pose as… Read More

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“Squid Versus Assclown” by Sharon Mesmer

By On September 3, 2009

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“February 14” by Kim Addonizio

By On September 2, 2009

" For all their fleshiness, stiletto stylishness, and rock-and-roll swagger, Addonizio's finely crafted and irreverent poems are timeless in their inquiries into love and mortality, rife with mystery and ambivalence, and achingly… Read More

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“Poem for Hannah” by Matthew Zapruder

By On September 1, 2009

The tiny bee on its mission died before it felt a thing. Its body rested for a moment on the railing of my sunny porch in California. Then wind took it away.… Read More

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“Artichoke” by Robin Robertson

By On August 31, 2009

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“[dogs and boys can treat you like trash. and dogs do love trash]” by D.A. Powell

By On August 29, 2009

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“Music Swims Back to Me” by Anne Sexton

By On August 28, 2009

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E-Verse Dumb New Product of the Month: Beer on a Stick

By On August 27, 2009

Why? I mean, really, come on! How is this easier than just holding the glass? Your hand shouldn’t be that warm! And what about mugs? They already have handles on them. And… Read More

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The “Double-Down” “Sandwich” from KFC, Courtesy of My Brother

By On August 27, 2009

My brother is always alert to revolting trends in American eating. He recently sent me ads for a sandwich that was test-marketed by KFC in parts of Nebraska and Rhode Island. In… Read More

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“Death” by Roy Fuller

By On August 27, 2009

How many doors will this man open And stand with his skull against the light And move his reddened eyes like hyphens On the right parchment of his face, Insert his stick… Read More

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Thanks to All 5,000

By On August 26, 2009

E-Verse would like to thank the over 5,000 readers who spent time with us in the month of August, usually a slow month (and it’s not even over yet!). If you feel… Read More

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“Inshallah” by Ben Downing

By On August 24, 2009

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“Some Permanent Things” by James Matthew Wilson

By On August 22, 2009

The retail banker in his cubicle Will speak of his great-aunt, or cherish photos He plucked from her estate sale, with some dull Soporifics so quaint they must be no pose. But… Read More

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“To the Trespasser” by David Barber

By On August 21, 2009

A quiet akin to ruins— another contracted hillside, another split-level fretting the gloaming with its naked beams. The workmen have all gone home. The blueprints are curled in their tubes. The tape… Read More

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Statistical Visualization of Napoleon’s March into Russia (with Thanks to Steven Renau)

By On August 20, 2009

Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, this map by Charles Joseph Minard portrays the losses suffered by Napoleon’s army in the Russian campaign of 1812. Beginning at the Polish-Russian border, the… Read More

Poetry

“Have you got thirty readers?”

By On August 19, 2009

In a 1966 interview with the BBC, John Berryman, who had recently won the Pulitzer Prize for his celebrated poetry cycle 77 Dream Songs, boasted that, in the entire world, he had… Read More

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“Most People Are Djs” by Craig Finn

By On August 19, 2009

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“Aunt Mae” by Alfred Nicol

By On August 18, 2009

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“Sharks’ Teeth” by Kay Ryan

By On August 17, 2009

Everything contains some silence. Noise gets its zest from the small shark’s-tooth- shaped fragments of rest angled in it. An hour of city holds maybe a minute of these remnants of a… Read More