“On the Corner” by Ernest Hilbert
Edinburgh’s oldest literary journal and released three times a year, The Edinburgh Review has been transforming the critical landscape since 1802. Issue 133 features poetry by Paul Muldoon, Ernest Hilbert, Jen Hadfield,… Read More
“Guns ‘N Roses” by Austin MacRae
Austin MacRae's poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, 32 Poems, Birmingham Poetry Review, Stone Canoe, and The Cortland Review.… Read More
“Song” by Frank O’Hara
O'Hara was at the heart of a vibrant artistic circle that embraced fellow New York School poets John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, as well as experimental painters such… Read More
“Wind Loss” by Chis Bullard
"the Golden Oldies / station played Steve Miller."… Read More
“Get Away” by Yuck
"A well-rounded Nineties indie rock mixtape. Yuck's self-titled debut album has a comforting, familiar sound, but the appeal isn't limited to nostalgia–Blumberg and his bandmates have a talent for penning memorable hooks… Read More
Quincy R. Lehr and Paul Siegell Enter the Studio to Record Tracks for Legendary Misbehavior LP
"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it." - Art Buchwald… Read More
“Paper Memories” by Theo Putzu
Special Mention at VISIONARIA 2010 - Piombino - Italy Special Jury Prize at BOLZANO SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2010 - Bolzano - Italy Special Jury Prize at Festival CinemaZERO 2010 - Trento - Italy Nomination for… Read More
E-Verser Cynthia Reports from the Front Lines of the No Pants Subway Ride
E-Verse correspondent Cynthia sends in some photos from the 2012 No Pants Subway Ride, NYC edition. … Read More
“Flatirons” by David Yezzi
David Yezzi’s books of poetry are Sad Is Eros and The Hidden Model. His libretto for a chamber opera by David Conte, Firebird Motel, received its world premiere in 2003 and was… Read More
“Earth: Time Lapse View from Space, Flyover, NASA, ISS” by Michael König
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at… Read More
“You Play Dean and I’ll Play Sal”: Jack Kerouac Writes to Marlon Brando Urging Him to Make a Movie of On the Road
Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in. … Read More
“At the Edge of the Parking Lot” by Chris Bullard
"Christopher Bullard's poems deal with the Big Themes: aging, mortality, death, loss of height and loss of hair. But don't despair: these poems will leave you with a bigger dose of mordancy… Read More
“Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money” by P. T. Barnum, 1880
Although he denied having ever said it, the famous (and, one suspects, quite honest), quote "There's a sucker born every minute" is attributed to Barnum, one of the great American entertainment businessmen.… Read More
“Bedroom Eyes” by Dum Dum Girls
Write about what you know. That's what they say. But that's a lot easier said than done when what you know is very, very difficult to bear. That was the challenge Dum… Read More
“A Year in New York” by Andrew Clancy
"Living in New York I'd grab my Canon 7D, or S95, and shoot footage of what was going on around me. It seemed like a never ending project and you could stay… Read More
You’re Still Wearing Pants on the Subway? Come On! Join the No Pants Subway Ride 2012
Welcome Cynthia, E-Verse's latest member. Cynthia keeps sane by doing crazy things. Her new column, Boulibaisse, like the original peasant soup, is made up of all things geek, absurd, oddly entertaining, and… Read More
“Disappearing Act” by Eleanor Ross Taylor
Of her work, Adrienne Rich has said, “speak of the underground life of women, the Southern white Protestant woman in particular, the woman-writer, the woman in the family, coping, hoarding, preserving, observing,… Read More
“Range” by Ernest Hilbert
Edinburgh’s oldest literary journal and released three times a year, The Edinburgh Review has been transforming the critical landscape since 1802. Issue 133 features poetry by Paul Muldoon, Ernest Hilbert, Jen Hadfield,… Read More
“Barton Hollow” by The Civil Wars
"In some ways, music doesn't get much more modest or minimalist than it is in the hands of The Civil Wars, a duo comprised of California-to-Nashville transplant Joy Williams and her Alabaman… Read More
A Reading of The Correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell at the 92nd Street Y
In her first letter to Robert Lowell, dated May 12, 1947, Elizabeth Bishop wrote, "I was supposed to read, too, up at the YMHA Saturday evening but couldn't make it, and I… Read More
“High Heel” by Erica Dawson, in the Best of the Barefoot Muse
An anthology of the best poems that appeared in the online journal, The Barefoot Muse, 2005-2010, selected and arranged by Anna M. Evans, including poems by Mike Alexander Tiel Aisha Ansari Peter… Read More
“The Words That Maketh Murder” by P.J. Harvey
"What if I take my problem to the United Nations?"… Read More
Happy New Year from Everyone at E-Verse!
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne! For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne. We'll take a… Read More
“Cryptid” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of The Edinburgh Review
Edinburgh’s oldest literary journal and released three times a year, The Edinburgh Review has been transforming the critical landscape since 1802. Issue 133 features poetry by Paul Muldoon, Ernest Hilbert, Jen Hadfield,… Read More
“That’s Why I Talk Money Like a Pool Sharp. It’s All Survival; Forgive Me”: Charles Bukowski Learns the Literary Hustle After Quitting His Job
Thanks to E-Verser Brian for sending this one in. … Read More
Books Read or Reread in 2011
Another year gone already? Strange. I never seem to spend as much time reading as I'd like. I imagine others share my dismay when I realize that yet another twelve months have… Read More
“&: A Serial Poem” by Daryl Hine
"For his control of learning and wit I can think of few poets alive who can approach him. There are very few poets as good as Daryl Hine and almost none like… Read More