“Martini” by Ernest Hilbert (with Audio!)
After reading Barnaby Conrad's book The Martini: An Illustrated History of an American Classic, and eagerly imbibing many myself over the years, I was inspired to write a poem about the one… Read More
“Stars” by A. E. Housman
"Housman only published two volumes of poetry during his life: A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922). The majority of the poems in A Shropshire Lad, his cycle of 63 poems,… Read More
“Sounding Line” by Lisa Williams
"Poems of arresting intelligence, precision, and beauty. . . . Lisa Williams takes us into eerily imagined worlds—the interior of a jellyfish, and the interior of a glacier. . . . This… Read More
James Fenton Reads
James Fenton reads "Out of the East, "Blood and Lead" and "The Milk Fish Gatherers", at 92Y on December 12, 2011. … Read More
“Fearful Symmetry” by Mark Todd
In his checkered past, Mark Todd lived consecutive lives as a mortician, a mountaineer, and a musher. These days, he's a professor, poet, and stage performer. Author of two collections of poetry… Read More
“Blue Poison Dart Frog” by Jon Stone
Jon Stone was born in Derby, and currently lives in London, where he works as a transcript editor (or scopist, as the job is known in the US). He has been commended… Read More
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson
"My business is to love . . . My Business is to Sing.”… Read More
Cynthia Would Like to Introduce You to Edison’s “Boxing Cats”
Apparently even the earliest of film makers had an interest in "America's funniest home video" type escapades!… Read More
“Homage to the British Museum” by William Empson
"The heart of standing is you cannot fly." - William Empson… Read More
The Legendary KGB Monday Poetry Series is Back
The legendary KGB Monday night series is back with an excellent lineup. … Read More
“The Arsenal at Springfield” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!… Read More
“Sinners Welcome” by Mary Karr
Mary Karr is a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She has won Pushcart Prizes for both verse and essays, and is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University. Her previous two memoirs,… Read More
“Catnip: Egress to Oblivion? [Classroom Drug Educational Film]” by Jason Willis
Does your cat have a drug problem? … Read More
“To Shoot Guns and Drink Hard Liquor”: Conan O’Brien Hangs Out with Hunter S. Thompson
Thanks to E-Verser Brian for sending this in. Made our weekend. … Read More
“Just a Smack at Auden” by William Empson
"Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men." - William Empson… Read More
From “Lutèce, te amo” by Ahren Warner
Ahren Warner won an Eric Gregory Award in 2010, and an Arts Foundation Award in 2012. His first collection, Confer, was published by Bloodaxe in 2011; it was a Poetry Book Society… Read More
Call me Migaloo . . .
"Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with Europa; not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely swam. No wonder there had… Read More
“Past One O’Clock” by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated by Max Hayward and George Reavey
"This poem was found among Mayakovsky’s papers after his suicide on April 14, 1930. He had used the middle section, with slight changes, as an epilogue to his suicide note."… Read More
“Accidentally Like a Martyr” by Warren Zevon
A classic by Zevon, often overlooked in favor of other hits. Live at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic NJ. Oct 1, 1982.… Read More
E-Verse Equinox Presents an Evening of Poetry with Michael Dickman, Catie Rosemurgy, Thomas Devaney, and Jehanne Dubrow, Hosted by Ernest Hilbert
The E-Verse Equinox Reading Series features poets from Philadelphia and around the country. Past readers include Matthew Zapruder, Timothy Donnelly, Afaa Michael Weaver, David Yezzi, Elizabeth Gold, Bojan Louis, and Daniel Nester.… Read More
“Living Together” by James Matthew Wilson
James Matthew Wilson is the author of Four Verse Letters (2010) and Timothy Steele: A Critical Introduction (2012), as well as some two hundred poems, essays, and reviews. An award-winning scholar of… Read More
Cynthia Says the South Will Rise Again (at Least the Dinosaur Kingdom Park in Natural Bridge, VA)
T. Rex vs. Ulysses S. Grant!… Read More
“Citation” by Joshua Mehigan
Influenced by the poetry of Philip Larkin, Jorge Luis Borges, and Edgar Bowers, Mehigan writes intelligent, morally complex lyric poems shaped by a nuanced attention to rhyme and meter. Critic Adam Kirsch… Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Introduction to Four Jules Verne Novels, Issued in the Canterbury Classics Series
Verne’s first novel imagined men floating almost helplessly across a largely unmapped Africa in search of the still-undiscovered sources of the Nile. By the time Around the World in Eighty Days was… Read More
“Like Blonde Girls Pray to Jesus” by Quincy Lehr
Quincy Lehr's most recent collection is Obscure Classics of English Progressive Rock. … Read More
“Effigies” by John Mole
A poem inspired by Philip Larkin's "An Arundel Tomb," from this week's Times Literary Supplement. … Read More
The Baron Lives! New Paintings by Brian Knauer in Brooklyn, Sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum
Check out some art in Brooklyn this weekend. … Read More
“Work Song” by Nate Cannonball Adderley (1962)
Cannonball In Europe! was recorded live on August 5, 1962 at the International Jazz Festival in Comblain-La-Tour, a small town in Belgium. … Read More
“Tidepooling with Julian” by Dylan Willoughby
Dylan Willoughby's recent publications are a limited-edition chapbook, Dusk at St. Mark's, from Chester Creek Press, and poems in Agenda (UK) and Green Mountains Review. He is the past recipient of… Read More