Well, It’s a Start: The E-Verse Free Book Program Begins Small
After much planning, the first books in the E-Verse Free Book Program have landed on the shelf at Ants Pants cafe. These meager offerings will grow in time, and the peculiar range… Read More
“An Archive of Confessions, A Genealogy of Confessions” by Joshua Clover
Joshua Clover is the author of two books of poems, The Totality for Kids (University of California Press, 2006), and Madonna anno domini (1997), which was chosen by Jorie Graham to receive… Read More
“Felix Randal” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Apart from a few uncharacteristic poems scattered in periodicals, Hopkins was not published during his own lifetime. His good friend Robert Bridges (1844-1930), whom he met at Oxford and who became Poet… Read More
“THUD!” by Quincy Lehr
Where’ve our tortured artists gone, Catullus or Syd Barrett? Chasing after the latest grant and following the carrot.… Read More
“Amoretti LXVII: Like as a Huntsman” by Edmund Spenser
"Be bolde, Be bolde, and everywhere, Be bold." - Edmund Spenser… Read More
“Silviculture” by Cecily Parks
Cecily Parks’s first book of poems, Field Folly Snow (University of Georgia Press 2008), was a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Glasgow/Shenandoah Prize for Emerging Writers. Her… Read More
Like Kitty Porn? Then Try Cute Overload!
Ridiculous, we know, but if you have some time to spare, Cute Overload is a website devoted to images that press the "awwwwww" button in us all.… Read More
“A Radio With Guts” by Charles Bukowski
"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink." - Charles Bukowski, inspirational saying on Ernest Hilbert's desk… Read More
“Museum” by Glyn Maxwell
"Maxwell is hardly a flashy poet. (His early work was wicked in an Audenesque way, without Auden’s demonic language or perverse views.) If you read too fast, you miss his subtlety, his… Read More
“Calais” by Glyn Maxwell
"Glyn Maxwell's originality lies in his astounding ability to orchestrate asides, parenthetical quips, side-of-the-mouth ruminations into a formal verse with a bravura not dared before." - Derek Walcott… Read More
“Ghazal” by Mimi Khalvati
Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran and has lived most of her life in England. She trained at Drama Centre London and has worked as an actor and director in the… Read More
“Strawberries” by Edwin Morgan
"I don’t think the future of poetry is all that black. I think it will be possible to write long poems again. The space age will perhaps bring a kind of epic… Read More
“You Should Have Seen the Cover they Wanted to Do!”: Some Simply Awful Heavy Metal Album Covers
It’s hard to believe, but there was an era, long ago, in which CDs, cassette tapes, and even vinyl albums were purchased and carried around. These primitive objects had to be covered… Read More
“Occupational Hazard” by Sophie Hannah
"Sophie Hannah is among the best at comprehending, in rhyming verse, the indignity of having a body and the nobility of having a heart." - Jeremy Noel Todd, Guardian… Read More
“And Indians” by Glyn Maxwell
"Poetry is words in space, representing words in time." - Glyn Maxwell… Read More
“Valentine” by Carol Ann Duffy
"Poetry and prayer are very similar." - Carol Ann Duffy… Read More
“Mrs Lazarus” by Carol Ann Duffy
"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning." - Carol Ann Duffy… Read More
Hilbert Heads Across the Pond
I'm heading out for London (antiquarian book fairs, auctions, work . . .), Oxford (a reading, spending the night at St. John's college), Leamington Spa (day off), and the Scottish highlands (where… Read More
“The Air” by Don Paterson
"A poem is just a little machine for remembering itself." — Don Paterson… Read More
“Closing” by Deborah Warren
Deborah Warren was born in Boston, MA in 1946. Her poetry collections are: The Size of Happiness (2003, Waywiser Press, London), runner-up for the 2000 T. S. Eliot Prize; Zero Meridian, which… Read More
One man’s junk . . . Check Out Artist Zac Freeman’s Portraits Created from the Debris You Accumulate in Your Couches and Drawers
Thanks to Cynthia for sending this in.… Read More
“Bath” by Rachel Hadas
Rachel Hadas is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently The River of Forgetfulness (2006), a collection of poems, and Classics (2007) a selection of prose.… Read More
“The Dead” by Don Paterson
"A poetic form is essentially a codified pattern of silence. We have a little silence at the end of a line, a bigger one at the end of a stanza, and a… Read More
Christopher Bernard’s New Film “Woof!” to Premier in San Francisco
Saturday, JUNE 11th AMNESIA bar 853 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA 94110 Early Show! 6pm-9pm with Musical Guest: LAUREN KLIEN… Read More
“Sportsmanship” by Ernest Hilbert, in the New Issue of 32 Poems
"32 Poems has generated a lot of buzz in the literary community, and for once, the buzz was deserved; this modest journal contained a dazzling array of poetry . . . I… Read More
“The Persian Version” by Robert Graves
"If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money." - Robert Graves… Read More
“When I Heard the Learned Astronomer” by Walt Whitman
An example of a free verse poem that resolves to the simplicity of iambic pentameter for the final line when the speaker gazes up in natural wonder at the night sky. … Read More
“The Exile’s Return” by Robert Lowell
“The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.” - Robert Lowell… Read More
“Chansons Innocentes: I” by by e.e. cummings
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." - e. e. cummings… Read More
“Mental Cases” by Wilfred Owen
"The very content of Owen's poems was, and still is, pertinent to the feelings of young men facing death and the terrors of war." — The New York Times Book Review… Read More