“Repossession” by Rebecca Goss
Rebecca Goss‘s first collection The Anatomy of Structures was published by Flambard Press in 2010. Her second collection, Her Birth, is due with Carcanet/Northern House in August 2013.… Read More
The Fowl and the Laser Bat? Twelve Tones? Come On!
Stravinsky is still protected by copyright? OK, let's do some fresh 12-tone music for the "Owl and the Pussycat" by Lear. Or . . . no, have to come up with something… Read More
“The Appeal of Antiques” by Allan Peterson
"Peterson is one of our most valuable poet-thinkers and thinker-poets, a writer who can show us how much is within our grasp and much is beyond it." - LA Review of… Read More
A Vesper for Mr. Bond? A Mint Julep for Daisy Buchanan? How about a Moloko Plus for Alex, our favorite futuristic thug from A Clockwork Orange? Big Chart of Cocktails from Films and Books
We've made some Vespers here at the rare books firm. Now we have some others to try. Check out this chart, and enjoy. … Read More
“Rhapsody” by Angie Estes
"Her timing and her ever-inhibited instinct for poetic shape are the triumphs of a first-rate musical intelligence. Angie Estes is Fred Astaire and Ginger too: backwards in high heels, forward on roller… Read More
“I Don’t Know Why They Call this Stuff Hamburger Helper. It Does Just Fine by Itself, Huh?”: Everyone (in the US) Have a Great Fourth of July Weekend, from All of Us at E-Verse!
And don't blow your fingers off with fireworks!… Read More
Three Upcoming Readings for Ernest Hilbert in Three Cities and a List of Past Readings for Reference
Stop by one of these if you are in Philadelphia, New York City, or . . . Crested Butte, Colorado, home of "extreme" sports.… Read More
“A Farewell to Arms” by George Peele
His helmet now shall make a hive for bees . . .… Read More
Pew Research Center Says People Under 30 Still Read Books!
Just as libraries are rushing to rid themselves of physical books as fast as possible, a new report shows that they might want to slow down. People who read on tablets still… Read More
Wait, What Kind of Fruit? Guarana? Bacuri? Let’s Go Beyond Banana with this Helpful Chart of Fruits
I try to eat about eight pounds of fresh fruit each week, particularly in the summer when it's available and reasonably priced. However, I realize from this chart that I've been swimming… Read More
Larkin on the Walk of Stars: A Dispatch from Coventry
British E-Verser Dr. Dan visited Coventry this past weekend and sends in a picture of poet Philip Larkin's star on the walk of fame there.… Read More
“Notes for the Conquest” by Devon Bixler
Devon Bixler was raised in Blacksburg, Virginia and educated at NYU. He lives with his wife in Los Angeles, where he's pursuing a career as a high school History teacher.… Read More
“Ending with a Diphthong, Ending with a High Front Vowel”: Annoying Scholarly Phonetic Descriptions of Annoying Sounds Annoyed Teenagers Make
Uvular fricatives. Unrounded vowels. Glottal stops. As an English major, I studied linguistics and spent many hours learning my way around affricates, fricatives, and, of course, dipthongs, which sounded vaguely dirty and… Read More
It’s Getting Hotter and Hotter Out There: E-Verse Wants You to Use Good Sunscreens
Thanks to E-Verse Andrew for sending in this list of sunscreens approved by the Environmental Working Group. Click on the logo below to see the list. Don't burn yourselves! It's not the… Read More
“The Hand” by Mary Ruefle
"Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its spiritual force, intelligence, stylistic virtuosity, and adventurousness." - Tony Hoagland… Read More
Books Contain 50% More Interesting Words Than Television Shows and Other Reasons Why Reading and Writing Really Screw With Your Brain
This visual account of brain activity associated with reading and writing is quite worthwhile and revealing. Poets, novelists, essayists: pay particular attention to the part about cliches. Studies show that cliches do… Read More
Seriously, Guys. “It’s Not About the Nail” by Jason Headly
"Don't try to fix it. I just need you to listen." … Read More
“Talking to Patrizia” by Kenneth Koch
"Charles Simic wrote in The New York Review of Books that, for Koch, poetry 'has to be constantly saved from itself. The idea is to do something with language that has never… Read More
“Time Being” by Adam Fitzgerald
"When the new poet turns up the heat, he gives us just the necessary outrages which make us understand what we never knew we could say." - Richard Howard… Read More
“The Victor Dog” by James Merrill
"I'd like to think the scientists need us, but do they? Did Newton need Blake?" - James Merrill … Read More
“He Was Absolutely Insistent There Was No God, No Future Life, No Hope for the Planet”: Powerful and Utterly Depressing Short Documentary about Philip Larkin
With telling interviews with A.N. Wilson, Martin Amis, and others who knew Larkin. … Read More
“Descansos Negras” by Rick Mullin
Rick Mullin is the author of Soutine (2012), Huncke (2010) and Aquinas Flinched (2008). He works as an editor for the American Chemical Society.… Read More
“The Mutes” by Denise Levertov
Those groans men use passing a woman on the street or on the steps of the subway to tell her she is a female and their flesh knows it, are they a… Read More
E-Verse Heavy Metal Air Dancer!
You know those air dancers, the big plastic tube men that flap around and dance in front of car dealerships and discount furniture warehouses? Well, Lynn and I found ourselves passing one on… Read More
“Dead Boy” by John Crowe Ransom
"Ransom's poetic world is mostly the South, not the South as it actually was when cotton and slavery were crowned heads, not the empirical South that the sociologists study today, but a… Read More
“KV Crimes” by Kurt Vile
Kurt's a shoegazer. He hides behind his hair. He's painfully modest and self-effacing. He's not so much disaffected as simply shy, I think. Plus, he's a Philly guy. You don't walk around… Read More
“The March Wind” by Ben Mazer
Ben Mazer's new collection of poems is New Poems (Pen & Anvil Press, 2013). He is also the author of Poems (Pen & Anvil Press, 2010) and other collections. He is the… Read More
“Strip Mine” by Rebecca Foust
"Foust brings to life an immense range of experience and feeling. This poet's emotional intelligence correlates, too, with her formal skill, that unique talent for phrase and rhythm with which she makes… Read More
“This Is Sally Hatchet” by Father John Misty
Lynn and I caught the Father John Misty show at Union Transfer last Saturday night. It was an excellent show, and I was a bit surprised. Like most people, I've been listening… Read More
“For Prehistoric Man, Life Itself was the Biggest Gamble”: Exceedingly Rare and Wonderfully Dated In-Room Instructional Video Guide to Casino Games, Hosted by Orson Welles
In this in-room how-to guide to table games for Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, circa 1978, Welles decides that, rather than be reduced by his circumstances, he will elevate the circumstances. Perhaps in… Read More