“City on a Hill” by Ernest Hilbert
Ernest Hilbert’s newest collection, All of You on the Good Earth (2013), continues to explore the bizarre worlds of 21st-century America first glimpsed in his debut, Sixty Sonnets, which X.J. Kennedy hailed… Read More
“Bright Star” by John Keats
When Keats died at the age of 25, he had been seriously writing poetry for barely six years, from 1814 until the summer of 1820, and publishing for four. It is believed… Read More
“Simple Instructions” by Ernest Hilbert
Hilbert has written poems of superb lyricism. It’s hard to think of another poet with such range, and indeed with such brilliant delivery. Beauty, trash, exaltation, and humor are contained in his… Read More
“The Owl” by Edward Thomas
Philip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878–9 April 1917) was an Anglo-Welsh writer of prose and poetry. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his… Read More
“Nights of 1998” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of Praxilla
From the forthcoming collection All of You on the Good Earth (2013). … Read More
“I Look Into My Glass” by Thomas Hardy
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York: Harper, 1898.… Read More
“Silver Roses” by Rachel Wetzsteon
Rachel Wetzsteon (1967-2009) is the author of three previous poetry collections, including Home & Away, The Other Stars, and Sakura Park, as well as a critical study of W. H. Auden. … Read More
“FIRE! FIRE! DROP THE GUN!”: Some Hilarious Toy Knockoffs
Product piracy is big business around the world. We see Prada bags and Cartier watches for $10 on the street corner. Imitation is everywhere. Why pay for Fruit Loops when you… Read More
“My Symbolic Suggestion” by Daniel Nester
Daniel Nester is a journalist, essayist, poet, editor, and teacher. His latest book is How to Be Inappropriate, a collection of humorous nonfiction (Soft Skull, 2010). Nester’s first two books, God Save… Read More
“I’m Goin’ Down / To Sin City!”: Stop By Bauman Rare Books in Las Vegas If You Find Yourself in Sin City
Bauman Rare Books in The Shoppes at the Palazzo. … Read More
“Fireworks” by Chelsea Rathburn
Chelsea Rathburn earned an MFA from the University of Arkansas and is a native of Miami, Florida. Her first full-length collection, The Shifting Line, won the 2005 Richard Wilbur Award and was… Read More
“Home Security” by Ernest Hilbert
From the forthcoming book All of You on the Good Earth, original appearance in Michael Schiavo's magazine The Equalizer. … Read More
“A Small Good News” by Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson's honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, and the 1990 Connecticut Arts Award. From… Read More
“Crow Hill” by Ted Hughes
In 2008 The London Times ranked Hughes fourth on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". On 22 March 2010, it was announced that Hughes would be commemorated with… Read More
“And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name” by John Ashbery
Check out Jay Parini's Top Ten American Poems. Ashbery squeaks in at number 10 with this favorite. … Read More
“Slip Sliding Away”: The Future of Continents
We all know that plate tectonics cause the world's continents to move very slowly and reshape themselves. What was once a single mega-continent, Pangea, has since broken into the seven continents we… Read More
“Pull My Finger”: Mr. Donald Hall Meets the President
I interviewed Mr. Donald Hall recently. The results will be published in the American Poetry Review this year. We also began a very fine correspondence. I'm very pleased to learn he was… Read More
E-Verse Nets 36,000 Readers in February!
We're getting there! The goal is 50,000 readers by year's end. Please share E-Verse with friends, family, and enemies. … Read More
“A night of drink, / A night of hate, / A night as dark, / As last nights [sic] date”: Sheen and Heard in the Poetry World
Some of you may recall E-Verse's top five poetry collections by celebrities. Let us not forget that Mr. Sheen, so beloved of popular news media (even as revolutions break out across the… Read More
“In Memory of Jane Fraser” by Geoffrey Hill
"Is Hill the greatest living English poet? Many critics (including Harold Bloom) have said as much, since the 1970s, when a few dense books inspired transatlantic admiration. After four decades with just… Read More
“Landfill” by Morri Creech
Morri Creech's second book, Field Knowledge (Waywiser), won the first annual Anthony Hecht prize.… Read More
“Beating a Dead Horse” by Dick Allen
Dick Allen's new volume of poems, Present Vanishing, has won the 2009 Connecticut Book Award for Poetry.… Read More
“What Isn’t Mine” by Jill Alexander Essbaum
“Why the pairing of sexual and religious expression seems wrong to our post-modern American ears, I think, is because we’re all (no matter what we believe or don’t) direct inheritors of a… Read More
OK, so Narnia is East of Oz?: Dan Meth’s Fantasy Map
So, leave the Shire, go straight past Mordor, then turn right at Whoville. That will put you smack in the middle of Terabithia. Right? Ok, so keep south and you'll eventually hit… Read More
“Garden” by Rae Armantrout
“You can hold the various elements of my poems in your mind at one time, but those elements may be hissing and spitting at one another.” Rae Armantrout. … Read More
“If Resumes Included Stuff We Were Actually Proud Of”
Thanks to CollegeHumor.com for this one.… Read More
“Cohoes Falls” by Stephen Sturgeon
Trees of the Twentieth Century is Stephen Sturgeon's first collection of poetry. He is the editor of Fulcrum: an Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics. … Read More
“Nothing But Death” by Pablo Neruda, translated by Robert Bly
"the heart moving through a tunnel, / in it darkness, darkness, darkness . . ."… Read More