Archive for 'E-Verse'
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 StoryLearn How to Make and Publish Your Own Comics with Pat Aulisio
Philadelphia comic artist Pat Aulisio is teaching a class at Pterodactyl on publishing comics and art zines. Click on the logo below to sign up for the class or learn more. You can also visit his blog here.
In this course students will learn how to write, draw, and self publish their own mini comic. Students [...]
Full StoryPolar Bear Club, Jersey Shore Style!
E-Verse’s own Kara joined the ever growing ranks of the Polar Bear Club. For those not familiar with this elite group, allow me to explain. Fully grown adults, of sound mind and body, deliberately plunge themselves into the ocean in the middle of the winter. Yes, I know, it sounds insane, and I’m told that [...]
Full StoryThanks to the 8000 E-Verse Readers This Month
We’re getting more and more readers here at E-Verse, so this is a big thanks to all of you for stopping by. I’d like to know who the reader in Siberia is . . .
Full Story“Ah, Children of the Night”: Watch out for Scary Jennifer . . .
You all know Jennifer, as in “Jen Awesome,” the E-Verse designer. She looks innocent enough. Well . . . there are at least two things you may not know about her.
She is a fabulous skater. Yes, she belongs to “Team Delaware Adult” (don’t get me started). She’s so good she actually outgrew the Philadelphia teams [...]
Full Story“I’ll Have the Molly Hatchet”: Heavy Metal and Hamburgers, Together at Last (They Were Never That Far Aprt)
Yeah, two beefy guys with a megaphone and a big truck: Enter, Grill ‘Em All!
Full StoryE-Verse is deeply saddened by the death of the poet Rachel Wetzsteon
Rachel was certainly one of the finest poets of my generation, and it was a great honor to appear in the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets with her. I was scheduled to read with her at the Grolier Club earlier this month, but she had the flu and was unable to appear. I only [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert’s Top Two Hundred Songs of the Decade, 2000-2009
Note: I’ll feature each of the top twenty-five of the two hundred in its own post over the next month, you can go ahead and see the full list now!
Ernest Hilbert’s Top Two Hundred Best Songs of the Decade
Two hundred? Strange number, right? Yes, I suppose. Here’s the story. I sat down last night after [...]
Ernest Hilbert Blogs at Red Hen Press Blog Christmas Week
That’s right. I’m bloggging away for my publisher this week, so head on over to their blog and check out my first post on Roberts Hayden and Graves, community radio stations, and lots and lots of snow.
Full StoryPoetry and Whiskey: A Complete Guide!
Two of my favorite things. They go together. Now, thanks to Dennis’ Whiskey Corner, we have a complete list of poems that go well with certain poems. Have a look. Suggest your own!
“Here is a selection of poetry that came to mind while tasting various whiskeys. In some cases they are commentary, it others [...]
Aussie Paul’s Favorite Christmas Song, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas sung by Bing Crosby
Paul says: “That was before I had one and I imagined it to be quite magical until i discovered that it was not as much fun as going to the beach which is what we used to do. My grandfather liked Bing as well.”
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No, Mr. Wilde . . . I Expect You to Die!
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The [...]
Full StoryAn E-Verser sends in “A Cat Poem (after Listening to Ernest Hilbert)”
A young writer named Peako attended my last reading at KGB. I read a suite of cat poems as part of my set, and she decided to write her own sonnet in response:
My Saphire refuses to move until
the spirit strikes her. Peaceful sleep consumes
her days. But suddenly awake, she will
begin to dash across the house, [...]
Check out the new Andrew Goodspeed poem over at LineBreak Magazine
Just click here to head over to read the poem from America’s ex-pat poet of darkness and hear the excellent recording by the very cool Ashley McHugh.
Full StoryMr. Cohen gets a plaque at the Chelsea Hotel!
The entrance facade to the legendary Chelsea Hotel (where I always stay when I’m in NYC) features plaques honoring several of the many famous artists who lived in the vast and venerable bohemian hotel. These include Brendan Behan, Dylan Thomas, James Schuyler, Thomas Wolfe, and Arthur Miller. The latest addition commemorates Leonard Cohen’s 75th birthday [...]
Full Story“Get daaawn with the Philly Saaaund!”: E-Verser Elizabeth Gold Publishing All Over the Place!
The lovely and of course talented writer Elizabeth Gold recently published three pieces you might like to read.
The first is from the very cool online mag The Rumpus. “Soul Pas de Deux” is an excerpt from her memoir, Philly Soul.
Now for even more Philly Soul on emusic.
And here is a Time Out New York review [...]
How Will You Fare in the Coming Zombie Apocalypse?
Take this simple test to see how you’ll do. Be patient with all the typos. Those who created it had their hearts in the right place. Just click here or on the emergency kit below. Thanks to Ann for sending this one in.
Full StoryGentlemen, Ladies, please select your wagers . . . Odds for the 2009 Nobel Price in Literature, courtesy of Ladbrokes
Selection Odds
Amos Oz 3/1
Herta Muller 3/1
Joyce Carol Oates 5/1
Philip Roth 5/1
Thomas Pynchon 7/1
Adonis 9/1
Assia Djebar 9/1
Haruki Murakami 9/1
Mario Vargas Llosa 9/1
Thomas Transtromer 9/1
Claudio Magris 12/1
Don DeLillo 12/1
Ismail Kadare 14/1
Ko Un 14/1
Milan Kundera 14/1
A.B Yehoshua 16/1
Luis Goytisolo 16/1
Antonio [...]
Want to Waste Some Time? Who Doesn’t? Check Out the Brainy, Addictive Games on Sporcle!
Click on the brain below to exercise yours! Thanks to E-Verser Brian for sending this in.
Full Story“Prayer” by Jorie Graham
Over a dock railing, I watch the minnows, thousands, swirl
themselves, each a minuscule muscle, but also, without the
way to create current, making of their unison (turning, re-
infolding,
entering and exiting their own unison in unison) making of themselves a
visual current, one that cannot freight or sway by
minutest fractions the water’s downdrafts and upswirls, the
dockside cycles of [...]
“The Snow Leopard” by Jason Gray
In the Metro Toronto Zoo
He pads on grassy banks behind a fence,
with measured paces slow and tense.
Beyond his cage his thoughts are sharp and white;
he lives a compelled anchorite.
A solid ghost gone blind with all the green,
he waits and waits to be unseen.
-For Paul Strong
“I donned a pair of skin-tight, crotch-assaulting skinny jeans to see how it could change my life.”: Read E-Verser Daniel Nester’s “Seven Long Days in Skinny Jeans”
My thighs are still tingling.
It’s been seven days since the new pair of black skinny jeans arrived in the mail. Seven days of stretchable denim vacuum-sealed around my shins, thighs and the area of my body most sensitive to pressure. Seven days wearing what was once part of the hipster uniform, and is now the [...]
360 Degrees in the E-Verse Hammock!
A few fine days remain to us before the bleak winter, and I intend to spend as many of them as possible in my favorite place, my back-yard hammock. Here are some shots I took while swinging in the breeze (so to speak) reading on Sunday afternoon. Note Tiki torches to ward off the damned [...]
Full StorySome Damned Fine Star Wars Ripoff Posters
The internet is a wonderful thing, filled with free resources like this one: a selection of posters that rip off Star Wars imagery (for a few years there, everything ripped off Star Wars). Click on the “Express Wars 83″ Airborne Express poster below to visit the site.
One gets the feeling that the artist for this [...]
