“Tea” by by Jehanne Dubrow
Jehanne Dubrow is the author of three poetry collections, including most recently Stateside (2010). In autumn 2012, Northwestern University Press will publish her fourth book of poems, Red Army Red. Her first… Read More
“Pro Femina” by Carolyn Kizer
Kizer’s experience as a women and poet in the male-dominated world of 1950s America has shaped her work in countless ways. As Melanie Rehak in the New York Times put it, Kizer… Read More
“CASH FOR GOLD” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of the Boston Review, with Audio!
Ernest Hilbert is author of Sixty Sonnets and poems in Swallow Anthology of New American Poets and Poetry: A Pocket Anthology.… Read More
“The Cost” by Anthony Hecht
Anthony Hecht is an aristocrat among poets. It’s not that his work stands apart from others’, but that his poems hold themselves to a high standard, and in their purposes and sympathies… Read More
“Sugar Sand Stitched Lip” by Heyward Howkins
After getting his start playing guitar in Philadelphia's The Trouble with Sweeney, Heyward recently embarked on a solo career. Heyward is currently recording a debut release with a full band and innovative… Read More
from “Ancillariums” by Kevin Varrone
Kevin Varrone’s latest book, passyunk lost, and a companion chapbook, The Philadelphia Improvements, were recently published by Ugly Duckling Presse. His previous collection, id est, was published in 2008 by Instance Press.… Read More
“Sources of the Nile” by Tiel Aisha Ansari
Tiel Aisha Ansari is a Sufi data analyst living in the Pacific Northwest. … Read More
Cynthia Draws Our Attention to the Very Entertaining “The History of English in 10 Minutes” Courtesy of the Open University
This is E-Verse endorsed. Very fun. … Read More
“Winter in Gold River” by Catie Rosemurgy
Rosemurgy’s poetry is influenced by music—including the work of contemporary artists PJ Harvey and Liz Phair—and landscape, especially that of her native Upper Peninsula. In a 2010 interview with Susie DeFord for… Read More
“The Land of Counterpane” by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The author of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is known all over the world as a master storyteller, yet his achievements as a poet have been strangely neglected. This… Read More
“Black Angus, Winter” by Scott Edward Anderson
Scott Edward Anderson has been a Concordia Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts, and received both the Nebraska Review Award and the Aldrich Emerging Poets Award. His poetry has appeared… Read More
“The Unsubscriber” by Bill Knott
What doesn't Knott subscribe to? Believing only what you see and hear. Simplistic answers. The cult of the automobile. Praise of war. A nimble metaphysical poet given to surrealism, elegant yin-yang perceptions,… Read More
“Good Vibrations” by The Beach Boys
Wilson's publicist Derek Taylor described "Good Vibrations" as a "pocket symphony." It featured instruments unusual for a psychedelic rock/pop song, including prominent use of the cello and an electro-theremin. It is number… Read More
Garrett McNamara Rides a 90-Foot Wave . . . What Have You Done Today?
"Garrett McNamara just broke the world record for largest wave surfed by successfully navigating this 90-foot wall of watery death in Nazaré, Portugal. The previous record—77 feet—was set by Mike Parsons in… Read More
“Dizzy” by David Yezzi
David Yezzi is writing a biography of Anthony Hecht for St. Martin's Press. … Read More
“Fancy” by Jehanne Dubrow
Jehanne Dubrow is the author of three poetry collections, including most recently Stateside (2010). In autumn 2012, Northwestern University Press will publish her fourth book of poems, Red Army Red. Her first… Read More
“The Octopus” by James Merrill
"James Merrill's readers know that he was an exceptional poet in voice, vision, range, and fluency. The winner of many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and two… Read More
“No Opera Plot Can Be Sensible, for People Do Not Sing When They are Feeling Sensible”: Poetry and Music Course in Colorado with Ernest Hilbert
In ABC of Reading, Ezra Pound proposed that “poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.” How do musical elements of poetry affect us as readers and listeners? How does one… Read More
“Little Cars”: An Animated Action Short by Lilian Hardouineau
Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in. … Read More
“Death To Van Gogh’s Ear” by Allen Ginsberg
"Nobody publishes a word that is not the cowardly robot ravings of a depraved mentality." - Allen Ginsberg… Read More
All 786 Known Planets to Scale
See how the planets in our solar system stack up against others that astronomers have discovered. … Read More
“Steel of Pennsylvania” by Kevin O’Shea
Kevin O'Shea is a poet living in New Jersey.… Read More
“Disastrous!” Geoffrey Hill Talks about Poets Who Rewrite their Own Poems, Courtesy of Tower Poetry
"Yeats is the only poet who can be applauded on some, but certainly not all, of his rewritings." - Geoffrey Hill… Read More
“Mad Maud’s Four Dreams” by Melissa Green
Responsibility and delight are the tone of the true poet, a joy in the craft that supercedes its themes, however afflicted, and on every page of this book Melissa Green's reverential elations… Read More
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Mosquito
Mosquitoes are the bane of any hammock-lover's life, particularly here in Philadelphia. I war against them with sprays, and machines that give off scents, and LED-lights with suction vacuums, and, of course,… Read More
“Falling” by James Dickey
"Falling," an astonishing poetic feat that dramatizes the accidental fall of an airline stewardess from a plane to her death in a corn field. "The greatest thing that ever came to Kansas"… Read More
“Gold Digger” by Kanye West, featuring Jamie Foxx
You will see him on TV, any given Sunday / Win the Superbowl and drive off in a Hyundai… Read More
“Love is Like Oxygen” by The Sweet
You get too much you get too high / not enough and you're gonna die… Read More
“The Lost Kings Uphold My Side” by Ernest Hilbert (with Audio!)
Ernest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets (2009). A spoken word album recorded with rock band and orchestra, Elegies & Laments, will appear on vinyl and for digital download in the… Read More