“The Ball Poem” by John Berryman
John Berryman was born John Smith in McAlester, Oklahoma, in 1914. He received an undergraduate degree from Columbia College in 1936 and attended Cambridge University on a fellowship. He taught at Wayne… Read More
David Yezzi Discusses the Importance of “Small Magazines” at Victory Collaborative
David Yezzi says a few words about the importance and durability of quality literary magazines. … Read More
“On Reading Crowds and Power” by Geoffrey Hill
Geoffrey Hill was born in Worcestershire, England in 1932. From a working-class family, Hill attended Oxford where his work was first published by the poet Donald Hall. These poems later collected in… Read More
“Don’t start trotting out complex arguments about the cultural influence of baby boomers or the role of legendary bands in a ‘narrowcast’ culture—you’re disliking a band, not writing a trend article for Wired”: How to Hate the Beatles, a Step by Step Guide by Nitsuh Abebe
It might surprise you, but plenty of people don't like the Beatles. Hell, some people can't stand Shakespeare. To be fair, though, nothing is more boring than a Beatles factoid fanatic (except… Read More
“Jellied Eels: Ready to Eat”: Really? E-Verser Sends in the Grossest Packaged Foods Ever
Head over to the Huffington Post to see some of the grossest packaged foods you can imagine. Not safe for those with weak stomachs.… Read More
“Splitting Ice” by Kay Ryan
Kay Ryan's latest book is The Best of It: New and Selected Poems. She recently completed two terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States.… Read More
E-Verse Climbs to 29,000 Readers this Month . . . Can 30,000 Be Far Away?
29,000 unique (in every sense of the word) readers so far this month. Let's see if we can't break 30,000 before Christmas!… Read More
“The Last Supper” by Odi Gonzales
From Odi Gonzales’s collection La Escuela de Cusco [The School of Cusco], (Santiago de Surco, Peru: Ediciones el Santo Oficio-Gráficos, 2005), translated by Lynn Levin was first published in. … Read More
“Harry Pooter?”: Damn You Autocorrect!
Technology should serve the body, not control the mind, or so William Burroughs once intoned in a Nike commercial. Lots of things intended to help us actually get in our way, like… Read More
“In this house we obey the laws of Thermodynamics!”: Like the Simpsons? Would You Like to Live in Their House? Now You Can!
Imagine living in the house where Homer throttles Bart, Lisa blows a sad song on her sax, and Marge tries to hold it all together. Now you can, if you've got a… Read More
“History” by Ernest Hilbert
We can talk of eras and epochs, But life smudges over easy margins, Blows down fences, confuses neat frontiers. We may witness sunsets and check our clocks, But authentic change is slow,… Read More
“A Legend about Cats” by Ernest Hilbert
From the new issue of the Asheville Poetry Review. … Read More
“Genealogies” by Ernest Hilbert
1. Geneologies by Ernest Hilbert 2. Genealogies by Ernest Hilbert I envy those who trace their families back And back, to covered wagons, Bunker Hill, The Mayflower, and Bayeux Tapestry. Some can… Read More
“The Pessimist Prepares for What May Well Be His Last Winter”
1. The Pessimist Prepares for What May be His Last Winter by Ernest Hilbert I have been released into harsh Autumn And witness ash of cruel light on skylines. Dusk draws in… Read More
“The Driver of the Car Is Unconscious” by Timothy Donnelly
Timothy Donnelly's Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit was published by Grove Press in 2003. The Cloud Corporation was published by Wave Books in 2010. He is poetry editor for… Read More
SNL’s Take on Black Friday: Very Funny!
Mega Mart is promoting some Black Friday deals unlike anything you've ever seen.… Read More
“Church Street” by Ernest Hilbert
1. Church Street by Ernest Hilbert For Daniel Nester My friends quietly dropped out of high school. It seemed each week we had parties for some guy Going into jail or getting… Read More
Have a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving
From all of us at E-Verse. And remember: Even if your Thanksgiving doesn't look like this one (whose does?), be thankful for what you've got. … Read More
Man Makes Ridiculously Complicated Chart To Find Out Who Owns His Mortgage
Thanks to the Huffington Post for this one. … Read More
“Leningrad” by Ernest Hilbert
From the new issue of the Asheville Poetry Review. … Read More
“Man Carrying Thing” by Wallace Stevens
Harold Bloom called Wallace Stevens "the best and most representative American poet of our time." Here is one reason why. … Read More
“Lighthead’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1971. He received a B.A. from Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina, and an M.F.A. from the University of Pittsburgh writing program. He is… Read More
“The Flautist of North Station” by Bill Coyle
Mr. Coyle's first collection of poems spans the divide between the minutely considered trappings of an often hard-bitten and desolate world and the larger, more elusive questions of belief. Shifting easily through… Read More
“Death and Minstrelsy” by Ben Mazer
Ben Mazer is the author of Poems (The Pen & Anvil Press, 2010) and January 2008 (Dark Sky Books, 2010). He is the editor of Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Harvard… Read More
“A Few Drinks and We’re All Poets” by Ernest Hilbert
We’ll head out, you and me, have a pint, or Maybe three, a cool thin ale, like sunlight, Or a lager, toke the dregs of the day. We’ll catch up, slide down,… Read More
Booker, Gwenievere, Kiki, Shakespeare, and Rembrandt! Let’s have a Look at a Rundown of the Top Bookstore Cats in the US
We at E-Verse believe it's not really bookstore without a bookstore cat. After pub cats, bookstore cats are some of our favorite public felines. Let's have a look at a few famous… Read More
“Rich in Vitamin C” by J.H. Prynne
Jeremy Halvard Prynne (born June 24, 1936 ) is a British poet closely associated with the British Poetry Revival. Prynne's early influences include Charles Olson and Donald Davie. His first book, Force… Read More
Lots of Quotes, Lots and Lots of Quotes
Entertaining and provocative quotes were an essential part of E-Verse Radio for the first seven or eight years, when it existed solely as an electronic mail newsletter. Our new format gives us… Read More