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Poetry

“Crab” by Sharon Olds

By On June 19, 2009

Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford and Columbia universities. Her first book, Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second, The Dead… Read More

Poetry

“A Small Hotel” by Selima Hill

By On June 18, 2009

My nipples tick like little bombs of blood. Someone is walking in the yard outside. I don’t know why Our Lord was crucified. A really good fuck makes me feel like custard… Read More

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“Bird Advice” by Jill Alexander Essbaum

By On June 17, 2009

There you go again, head in hand and wringing out the vandal curl of your hair, the only sparrow Jesus has his eye on. Of course we’ll eat your breadcrumbs. Mostly, you… Read More

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“Helen” by H.D.

By On June 16, 2009

All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face, the lustre of the olives where she stands, and the white hands. All Greece reviles the wan face when she smiles, hating… Read More

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“Ecce Homo” by James Matthew Wilson

By On June 15, 2009

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“The Canto of Ulysses” by Morri Creech

By On June 13, 2009

Primo Levi, in his apartment in Turin, reading The Divine Comedy. February, 1987 Drowsing, head propped above the eighth circle, he feels the present shifting like a keel, takes his bearings by… Read More

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“Business Girls” by John Betjeman

By On June 12, 2009

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“The Business of Love is Cruelty” by Dean Young

By On June 11, 2009

It scares me the genius we have for hurting one another. I’m seven, as tall as my mother kneeling and she’s kneeling and somehow I know exactly how to do it, calmly,… Read More

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“The Feast of Stephen” by Anthony Hecht

By On June 9, 2009

I The coltish horseplay of the locker room, Moist with the steam of the tiled shower stalls, With shameless blends of civet, musk and sweat, Loud with the cap-gun snapping of wet… Read More

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Others Love Domo Too

By On June 8, 2009

Renowned Chicago literary critic and editor Levi Stahl wrote in to say that he too has a Domo he and his wife travel with. His wife took these pictures (below). You can… Read More

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Back from London in Several Pieces

By On June 8, 2009

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Poetry

“Wolves” by Louis MacNeice

By On June 6, 2009

I do not want to be reflective any more Envying and despising unreflective things Finding pathos in dogs and undeveloped handwriting And young girls doing their hair and all the castles of… Read More

Poetry

“Australia 1970” by Judith Wright

By On June 5, 2009

Die, wild country, like the eaglehawk, dangerous till the last breath’s gone, clawing and striking. Die cursing your captor through a raging eye. Die like the tigersnake that hisses such pure hatred… Read More

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Domo Hangs Out at the Chelsea Hotel

By On June 4, 2009

Rock stars, artists, actors, wealthy bohemians, and . . . . Domo! Check out the cool art in the hallways, Domo! Domo, slow down. He can’t wait to get to the room.… Read More

Poetry

“Lilacs” by Peter Campion

By On June 4, 2009

It used to burn, especially in spring: the sense that life was happening elsewhere. Smudged afternoons when lilacs leaked their smell past schoolyard brick, whole plotlines seemed to twist just out of… Read More

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“Men at Forty” by Donald Justice

By On June 1, 2009

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. At rest on a stair landing, They feel it Moving beneath them now like… Read More

Poetry

“The Geranium” by Theodore Roethke

By On May 31, 2009

When I put her out, once, by the garbage pail, She looked so limp and bedraggled, So foolish and trusting, like a sick poodle, Or a wizened aster in late September, I… Read More

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“The Fly” by William Blake

By On May 30, 2009

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“Vocation” by Carol Rumens

By On May 29, 2009

Is it poetry I’m after at those moments when I must clothe your hands in mine or comfort your shoulders —so bare and neglected sometimes when we wake— or press your mouth… Read More

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Domo Visits the Grand Canyon and the SXSW Film Festival

By On May 28, 2009

Domo finally got to see the Grand Canyon with his friends. He wants to see what’s down there, but he’s also worried about that hawk circling overhead. Domo only weighs five ounces!… Read More

E-Verse

“Super Sneaky Squirtin’ Stick”: Wham-O Product Names are Pure Poetry

By On May 26, 2009

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Poetry

“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop

By On May 26, 2009

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster… Read More

Poetry

“The Woman at the Washington Zoo” by Randall Jarrell

By On May 25, 2009

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Feature

Head over to the Best American Poetry this week as Ernest Hilbert “Guest-Blogs!”

By On May 25, 2009

From Best American Poetry blog: Happy Memorial Day. I hope everyone is out doing something that involves barbecuing and hopefully the use of a Wham-O, Inc. “Slip n’ Slide” or perhaps the… Read More

Sixty Sonnets

FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES

By On May 24, 2009

Special thanks to Robert Kaiser for sending this in. The lines are from the Hilbert poem “Meet and Greet.” online pharmacy buy cozaar no prescription pharmacy… Read More

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Have a Great Memorial Day Weekend

By On May 23, 2009

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“The Best of It” by Kay Ryan

By On May 22, 2009

However carved up or pared down we get, we keep on making the best of it as though it doesn’t matter that our acre’s down to a square foot. As though our… Read More

Poetry

“Interior” by Christian Wiman

By On May 21, 2009

Flat light and the white aisles of cotton, sky like an idea of blue. There’s no space like this, wide, fraught with God. The past is not a place but story upon… Read More

E-Verse

E-Verse Tops 5,000 Regular Readers

By On May 20, 2009

E-Verse continues to grow in popularity. Thanks to everyone who stops by each day to check out the blog and the video show. See you soon! . . . wait, oh, Paul… Read More