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“Winter Promises” by Marge Piercy

By On January 16, 2010

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“The Burning Bush” by Jericho Brown

By On January 14, 2010

Lizard’s shade turned torch, what thorns I bore Nomadic shepherds clipped. Still, I’ve stood, a soldier listening for the word, Attack, a prophet praying any ember be spoken Through me in this… Read More

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“To a Locomotive in Winter” by Walt Whitman

By On January 11, 2010

Thee for my recitative! Thee in the driving storm, even as now—the snow—the winter-day declining; Thee in thy panoply, thy measured dual throbbing, and thy beat convulsive; Thy black cylindric body, golden… Read More

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Rachel Wetzsteon reading selections from her sequence “Home and Away” in the Paris Review Audio Series

By On January 8, 2010

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“Promised Land Valley, June ’73” by Alfred Corn

By On January 7, 2010

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“Hotel Lautréamont” by John Ashbery

By On January 6, 2010

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“Rich in Vitamin C” by J.H. Prynne

By On January 5, 2010

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“Sakura Park” by Rachel Wetzsteon

By On January 4, 2010

The park admits the wind, the petals lift and scatter like versions of myself I was on the verge of becoming; and ten years on and ten blocks down I still can’t… Read More

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“Adoration of the Shepherds / A Pastoral Scene” by Odi Gonzales

By On January 3, 2010

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“Auld Lang Syne” by Robert Burns

By On December 31, 2009

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne! Chorus: For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne. We’ll tak… Read More

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“The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens

By On December 30, 2009

One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged… Read More

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E-Verse is deeply saddened by the death of the poet Rachel Wetzsteon

By On December 30, 2009

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… Read More

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“At the Entering of the New Year” by Thomas Hardy

By On December 30, 2009

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“Pirate” by Samuel Menashe

By On December 29, 2009

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“Te Deum” by Charles Reznikoff

By On December 29, 2009

Not because of victories I sing, having none, but for the common sunshine, the breeze, the largess of the spring. Not for victory but for the day’s work done as well as… Read More

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“The Old Year” by John Clare

By On December 28, 2009

The Old Year’s gone away To nothingness and night: We cannot find him all the day Nor hear him in the night: He left no footstep, mark or place In either shade… Read More

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Paul Siegell’s Figure Poem “06.25.00 – PHiSH – ALLTEL PVILION, NC” from the new issue of Rattle magazine

By On December 26, 2009

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“Poem” by Jill Alexander Essbaum

By On December 16, 2009

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Ernest Hilbert Reads His Poem “Cover to Cover”

By On December 9, 2009

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“Hopper” by David Lehman

By On December 9, 2009

The disappearance of a cat is a good omen, He said when she told him that hers was missing A week after moving into her new house. Cats in captivity violate the… Read More

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“On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia” by A.E. Stallings

By On December 4, 2009

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“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden

By On November 30, 2009

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“A Hill” by Anthony Hecht

By On November 26, 2009

In Italy, where this sort of thing can occur, I had a vision once—though you understand It was nothing at all like Dante’s, or the visions of saints, And perhaps not a… Read More

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“Food Lion, Winchester, Tennessee” by Joe Osterhaus

By On November 25, 2009

From here, the line seems not to move at all; back beneath a clock that diamonds the hours with blushing vents of coke. At last, we crawl forward, just as Tess, the… Read More

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“Sweet Romanian Tongue” by James Schuyler

By On November 24, 2009

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“back to the machine gun” by Charles Bukowski

By On November 23, 2009

I awaken about noon and go out to get the mail in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot gingerly walking on the small sharp rocks… Read More

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“Study” by Rick Barot

By On November 20, 2009

It has taken its time to come to it, the tree nearly clean of leaves. With even a querulous wind, something on it flurries into wing. How it must happen: first, the… Read More

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“Ovid in the Third Reich” by Geoffrey Hill

By On November 17, 2009

non peccat, quaecumque potest peccasse negare, solaque famosam culpa professa facit. —(Amores, III, xiv) I love my work and my children. God Is distant, difficult. Things happen. Too near the ancient troughs… Read More

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Heather Green translates excerpts from Tristan Tzara’s “The Cast Iron of the Years” from Where the Wolves Drink (Part One)

By On November 4, 2009

Heather Green currently lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Her chapbook No Omen, is available at Love Among the Ruins Press. I mothers’ tears in the frosted cup at the tips of the figures… Read More

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“Gettysburg” by Herman Melville

By On November 2, 2009

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