Archive for 'Feature'
Visit Mad-Scientist Jason Nelson’s Inter-Dimensional, Multi-Planar Machine Poems
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 StoryErnest 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 StoryBethany 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 StoryTop 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 StoryUpcoming Readings for Ernest Hilbert
What follows is merely a thumbnail sketch of my readings for the first half of the year. More may be added, and you should certainly double-check the details (time, for instance, and lineup) closer to the dates to be sure of what you’ll be getting yourself into. I hope to see you at one of [...]
Full StoryE-Verse Top 100 Cool Novels #80: A Fan’s Notes, Frederick Exley, 1968
E-Verse Top 100 Cool Novels #80: A Fan’s Notes, Frederick Exley, 1968.
This fictional memoir is as breathless and manic as its author surely was when couch-surfing his way across Eisenhower’s America, steadfastly refusing to grow up, always lurking in the shadow of his beloved local sports-hero father, who died at 40. Fred, Ex, Exley, [...]
Ernest Hilbert’s Poem “While You Were Out” Read by X.J. Kennedy in the New Issue of LineBreak Magazine
Click here to head over to Ashley Anna McHugh’s indispensable online audio poetry magazine LineBreak to hear elder statesman Mr. X.J. Kennedy deliver a reading of my poem “While You Were Out,” from my forthcoming collection All of You on the Good Earth. You may stream directly from the site. This recording will also turn [...]
Full StoryE-Verse Picks Another Top 25 Interesting Wikipedia Pages
For those who enjoyed the first round of “top 25 interesting Wikipedia articles,” we’re back with 25 more ways to stretch your brain and waste time.
25. Animal sexual behavior (“Sexual cannibalism,” for instance)
24. The Cave of Lascaux
23. Alan Greenspan
22. Robert R.
21. Kevin Trudeau
20. Iran-Contra Scandal
19. Dog (seriously! What you didn’t [...]
Top Five Real People Changed to See What They’d Look Like if They Became Na’vi, the Blue People from Avatar
5. Mr. Bean
4. Tom Cruise
3. The Beatles
2. Michael Jackson
1. Palestinian protesters
Full StoryTop Five Novels (or Poems) about People Bent on Revenge
It’s a strong impulse, the will avenge oneself, and it’s driven the plot of many a story. Let’s have a look at the top five books defined by revenge.
Full StoryConversating and Closing, Always! “Submit if You Can’t Quit”
Any of these encounters with fatuous, sub-literate office dwellers sound familiar to you? If so, then share! Head over to “Please Fire Me,” a hilarious blog that logs the daily complaints of disenchanted workers just like you.
Full StoryBethany Brings Us Top Five Media Retail Businesses that are Dying Fast!
We miss music stores! And it’s hard to replace the experience of a bookstore. Whither the media of yesteryear? Yesteryear in this case being 2003 . . . . Check out Bethany’s top five!
Full StoryBethany Gives Us More Top Five Barbies!
5. Catwoman Barbie
4. Athena Barbie
3. Barbra Streisand Barbie!
2. Hot Wizard of Oz Dorothy
1. Computer Engineer Barbie, Yay!
Plus one WTF?
Plus another WTF? It’s Palm Beach Barbie, in case girls want to pretend they’re an elderly woman wearing a caftan on her way to grab an Early Bird special.
Full StoryTop Five Movies that Take Place Mostly in Malls
5. Scenes from a Mall (1991)
(Fun factoid: those are not Bette Midler and Woody Allen’s bodies on the poster. In the days before Photoshop, someone went to the trouble of cutting and pasting those heads onto those bodies. Is being Woody Allen’s body-double a career low or a lifetime low?) [Yeah, one of the worst [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert’s Top Two Hundred Best Songs of the Decade, Number 12
“Squatterz” by Jakk Frost: You can’t buy these albums on iTunes or in stores (the few that still sell albums). I got my copies of his albums from a cab driver who got me home late at night from a party (and I was spiraling around the galaxy at that hour). I had seen the [...]
Full StoryTop Five Words for the Recent Blizzard (Philadelphia Edition)
5. Snow D-Day (as in “snow day”)
4. Snowtastrophe
3. Snowpacalypse
2. Snowffleupagus
1. Snomageddon
Thanks to E-Verser Chris for getting us started on this.
Oh, and thanks to Erica, for sending in this picture from her neighborhood.
You just gotta love Philly. And while we’re on the topic, you also gotta love a “regional cuisine” that consists of “Cheesesteak with Cheeze [...]
Full StoryTop Five Father/Daughter Relationships in Shakespeare
5. Portia and her father, Merchant of Venice: “so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.”
4. Jessica and Shylock, Merchant of Venice: “My daughter! My ducats! My daughter! My ducats!”
3. Perdita and Leontes, A Winter’s Tale: born in prison and doomed to death as an infant by [...]
Full StoryTop Five Relatively Recent Cases of Famous Men Having Illegitimate Children/Second Families
5. Strom Thurmond: After the Senator’s death, it was revealed that the staunch racial segregationist had, at age 22, fathered a child with his family’s black maid, then-16-years-old, Carrie Butler. Thurmond supported his daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, at various times throughout her life, paying her college tuition and occasionally providing her with money, but never [...]
Full StoryBethany’s Top Five Words in English in which the Feminine is the Unmarked Category
“Unmarked category” means the default. So for many words, for a long time, one assumed it was used to refer to a man, unless someone specifically stated it was a woman. This is why one might say “woman doctor.” Otherwise it might be assumed that when one says “doctor,” one means a man. This usage [...]
Full StoryE-Verse is Snowed In!
It’s really picking up now, so we have snow, which was already on a layer of snow, and between a nice shanking of icy rain just to make it that much nicer. But being snowed in for the day isn’t so bad when one has books, and grub, and coffee, and cool cats, and a [...]
Full StoryTop Five Plays or Movies that about Shakespeare but Not Adaptations of his Plays
5. Elizabeth Rex: Queen Elizabeth spends a few hours talking to a man in Shakespeare’s acting troupe who specializes in playing women. In other words:a man who plays women teaches a woman who acts like a man how to be a woman on the eve of the execution of the man she loves (Essex) for [...]
Full StoryTop Five People Killed While Skiing
5. Ulrike Maier: world class Austrian skier, broke her neck in a fall while racing. Age: 26.
4. Doak Walker: Heisman Trophy winner and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Age: 72!
3. Sonny Bono: skied into a tree. Age: 62.
2. Michael L. Kennedy (son of Robert Kennedy): skied into a tree while playing “ski [...]
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