Visit Mad-Scientist Jason Nelson’s Inter-Dimensional, Multi-Planar Machine Poems
by Ernie on 12/03/10 at 9:31 am
Born from the computerless land of farmers and spring thunderstorms, Jason Nelson somehow stumbled into creating awkward and wondrous digital poems and interactive stories of odd lives. Currently he researches Net Art and Electronic Literature at Griffith University in the Gold Coast’s contradictory lands. Aside from coaxing code and creatures into breaking, playing, and morphing [...]
Full Story“Autumn Remonstration” by Amy Lemmon
Couple-hungry, full-grown but still in your teens,
off limits and thus irresistible,
you tweak my demon urge. Rusty at first,
then all too lubricated, my sexed brain
banters with itself, is finally convinced
it is not you I want to fuck to quivering.
Myself? My own desire?
Lust, lust, love’s my snare, the lure of the mind,
the wit of you, your words [...]
Ernest Hilbert, with Caleb Barber and novelist Dave King, at the Bowery Poetry Club
Hey, stop by the Bowery Poetry Club on Wednesday, March 31st, for an evening of new American writers.
Click here for the Academy of American Poets listing.
Ernest Hilbert with poet Caleb Barber and Dave King, author of the best-selling The Ha-Ha, soon to be a major motion picture starring Josh Brolin.
March 31, 2010, 6 PM
Bowery Poetry [...]
Top Five Ways “Dutch” is Used as an Adjective About Things that Have Nothing to do with the Netherlands
5. Dutch auction: An auction in which the auctioneer starts at a high auction price and proceeds to cut the price until someone is found to buy at that price.
4. Dutch oven: Refers to a thick-walled cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid, which is a common item found in many places throughout the world. Probably [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert and Jericho Brown at Frequency North
Thursday, March 18th, 2010, 7:30PM
College of St. Rose and Frequency North Present:
An evening of poetry with Ernest Hilbert and Jericho Brown
Events and Athletics Center, Second Floor
420 Western Ave. Albany, NY 12203
“Your Body Made Heavy with Gin” by Jericho Brown
I can relax. I smell liquor on your breath.
Soon your arms will be too heavy to lift,
And [...]
Very Funny and E-Verse Recommended: David Vanadia Talks about Body Hair and Manhood at AIGA Shift
David Vanadia Presentation AIGA Shift Event from AIGA Portland on Vimeo.
David Vanadia is a professional storyteller. I met him when we both attended the Art Institute together as video art majors (we both dropped out; I studied literature and he traveled the world actually telling stories). I have many fond memories of the outrageous (and [...]
E-Verser Jesse Rossa at the Oscars: Just Follow George Takei’s Thumb
Hey, Jesse, can you get some of the E-Verse staff in for next year’s Oscars?
And for good measure, here is the pumpkin version of Jesse, carved by one of his fans.
Full Story“Dread” by J.M. Synge
Beside a chapel I’d a room looked down,
Where all the women from the farms and town,
On Holy-days, and Sundays used to pass
To marriages, and Christenings and to Mass.
Then I sat lonely watching score and score,
Till I turned jealous of the Lord next door . . .
Now by this window, where there’s none can see,
The Lord [...]
Ernest Hilbert Reads “Two Portraits” from Aim Your Arrows at the Sun
Love Among the Ruins, or LATR, is a small press named after the unfinished Evelyn Waugh novel and based in New York City. It was founded in Summer 2009 by editors Daniel Lin and Margaret Monaghan.
Click here for more information or to purchase Aim Your Arrows at the Sun by Ernest Hilbert.
“Two Portraits” by Ernest [...]
“Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27″ by Charles Olson
I come back to the geography of it,
the land falling off to the left
where my father shot his scabby golf
and the rest of us played baseball
into the summer darkness until no flies
could be seen and we came home
to our various piazzas where the women
buzzed
To the left the land fell to the city,
to the right, it [...]
Ernest Hilbert’s Top Two Hundred Best Songs of the Decade, Number 9
“Heads Will Roll” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
How does one solve the problem of modern rock? Where to go? It can’t get any quieter. Any more whispering and moaning and we’ll lock these people in their rooms. It can’t keep sifting the rusty box of punk and hard rock forever. So what do Karen O [...]
Xaipe
Here is one of our cats, Xaipe. She’s a little killer. Pure evil. Her mother was pregnant with Xaipe and her siblings when we rescued her and found homes for all kittens (and mom). Her name is a Greek salutation, akin to “rejoice” in English, and it is one of the longest continually-used greetings in [...]
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E-Verse Top 100 Cool Novels #79: Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, 1922
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis, 1922.
It’s rare that a novel or one of its characters enters everyday language. Most people can identify Captain Ahab or Hester Prynne, and their circumstances or personalities may be summoned to make a point about obsession or hypocrisy. But only rarely does a novel get right to the heart of a [...]
Levi Stahl Urges Ernest Hilbert to Write a Noir Novel-in-Verse over at Quarterly Conversation
Mr. Stahl, poetry editor for Quarterly Conversation, writes on their new blog, Constant Conversation:
Even the least money-conscious among us has a fantasy about what he’d do if he came into a windfall of absurd proportions, right? A trip around the world? An apartment in Tokyo? A shelf full of rare first editions?
Me, I think I’d [...]
“Now with open belly rescue feature!”: Top Five Dead Taun Taun-obilia
For those of you who are not Star Wars babies, a word from Wikipedia about TaunTauns:
Tauntauns are 2.5 m (8.2 ft) tall bipeds, indigenous to the ice planet Hoth. Tauntauns are covered with white fur and have downturned horns, four nostrils, and a foul body odor. They subsist off lichen found in hoarfrost as well [...]
“The Dramatic Element” by David Yezzi
David Yezzi’s new essay on the dramatic element in poetry is making some waves, sowing controversy, and raising some hackles, as usual. Here is a bit of it. Click here to read the rest.
The critic David Orr was, I believe, talking about the current state of the lyric when he characterized “the trendiest contemporary style,” [...]
Molly’s Books is Back!
After a two year vacation, Molly’s Books is back in the Italian Market in South Philadelphia, so while you’re stocking up on bison loin and red snapper, stop in and grab a book to read on the way home.
We are open from Wednesday through Friday, from 12 till 6 and Saturday and Sunday from 10 [...]
“Difficult Body” by Mark Wunderlich
A story: There was a cow in the road, struck by a semi—
half-moon of carcass and jutting legs, eyes
already milky with dust and snow, rolled upward
as if tired of this world tilted on its side.
We drove through the pink light of the police cruiser,
her broken flank blowing steam in the air.
Minutes later, a deer sprang [...]
Top Five Movies in Which Tom Cruise Lives a Secret Double Life
We’re not sure what this means, and we’re not prepared to speculate. Still, Mr. Cruise seems to take a lot of roles that require him to play a man leading a double life.
Full Story“Recitativo” by C. Dale Young
As an arrow flies through the air, some
will say it swims because it bends and flexes
from side to side, like a fish does, like a fish swims.
But is that true? True, but not exact.
It isn’t enough to say the arrow swims.
It isn’t enough to say the arrow quivers.
Remember the spine of the arrow is wood.
It [...]
Bethany Brings Us Top Five “More” Appalling Examples of the Sexualization of Little Girls
Ernie hates when I send these to him, but it’s an important issue . . . – B
Full StoryWinners of the Tollund 2010 Poetry Prize Contest
The Tollund Group has announced winners in its first annual poetry translation prize:
We are proud to announce the winners of the Tollund 2010 Poetry Prize Contest. The challenge was to recreate the words of a particular sonnet in the Nordic languages. This contest was different from other poetry translation contests in that it was on [...]
Top Five American Cult Scandals
5. Charles Manson’s Family.
4. Heaven’s Gate: Its 39 members committed suicide during the pass of the comet Hale-Bopp on March 26, 1997, so that their souls could join a spaceship following it.
3. MOVE: A Philadelphia-based religious Afro-centric back-to-nature cult that was a thorn in the side of the Philadelphia police for many years, until the [...]
Full StoryFaulkner, Exley, Chandler? Who’s the Greatest Drunk American Writer? (#1 is a Tie!)
Head over to SofaKingDrunk.com to see the list of top ten greatest drunk American writers of all time.
Here are a few choice remarks on the subject by the contenders:
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.” – Ernest Hemingway
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to [...]
2010 Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
Novelists, biographers, historians, poets, critics, politicians, soldiers, public servants, scientists, and medics will be joined by artists, philosophers, theologians, architects, engineers, botanists, environmentalists and children’s writers.
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