The Baron Lives! New Paintings by Brian Knauer in Brooklyn, Sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum
Check out some art in Brooklyn this weekend. … Read More
“No Less Makings of the Sun”: Bill Murray Gets Serious for a Few Minutes and Reads Wallace Stevens
“Actor Bill Murray reads two poems by Wallace Stevens at Bubby’s Brooklyn, as part of Poets House’s 17th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge, Monday June 11, 2012.” For more information,… Read More
“. . . Left Me Feeling Disoriented and Uneasy, Like a Tethered Goat”: Superb Animated Pastiche of Hunter S. Thompson’s Prose Style
Thanks to E-Verser Brian for bringing this to our attention. … Read More
“Upon Julia’s Breasts” by David Yezzi
For Julia Child's birthday, a little ditty by David Yezzi, after Herrick. … Read More
David Sylvester’s Book Traveling at the Speed of Life
Cross-continental superhero cyclist David Sylvester, author of the newly-published memoir Traveling at the Speed of Life, joins E-Verse to discuss his epic journeys and offer his hilarious Top Five Movie Bicycles. … Read More
“Harmonia Sacra” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of B O D Y Magazine
Ernest Hilbert's poem "Harmonia Sacra" appears in the new issue of B O D Y magazine. Also read poems by Ed Skoog, Louis Armand, and Betsy Brown. … Read More
“This Be The Verse” by Philip Larkin
“Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.” - Philip Larkin… Read More
“We Were Somewhere around Barstow on the Edge of the Desert When the Drugs Began to Take Hold”: Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood, Full Film
"America, just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries… Read More
Cynthia Proclaims New Research “Shocking, I Tell You, Just Shocking”
The Georgia Institute of Technology is working on some new research about a renewable source of power caused by rubbing different materials together . . . and you thought static electricity was… Read More
“Under Sirius” by W.H. Auden
"Dog Days" (Latin: diēs caniculārēs) are the hottest, most sultry days of summer. In the Northern Hemisphere, the dog days of summer are most commonly experienced in the months of July and… Read More
“Gross Domestic Product Will Burn Your Glamor” by Pussy Riot
Pretty brave to butt heads with Putin. That's pretty punk, if not simply daft. You have heard about their trial in the news. Well, here they are, Pussy Riot!… Read More
“Ape and Coffee” by Russell Edson
Reclusive by nature, Edson has still managed to publish eleven books of prose poems and one novel, The Song of Percival Peacock (available from Coffee House Press). … Read More
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Ever wonder how movie ratings are assigned? Smoking? F*&k? How many times? Adult situations? Here's a guide. … Read More
“The Touring Shakespeare Company’s Visit is Eagerly Awaited in Grozny in 1953” by Tim Turnbull
Tim Turnbull's poetry is published by Donut Press, his latest collection being Caligula on Ice and Other Poems. He also creates entertainments for the stage; the most recent of these was Tim… Read More
Elderly Animals: Photographs by Isa Leshko
"Many of the animals who were photographed for this project were reared on factory farms before they were placed into sanctuaries. Others were beloved pets who were well cared for since an… Read More
“CASH FOR GOLD” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of the Boston Review, with Audio!
Ernest Hilbert is author of Sixty Sonnets and poems in Swallow Anthology of New American Poets and Poetry: A Pocket Anthology.… Read More
“The Cost” by Anthony Hecht
Anthony Hecht is an aristocrat among poets. It’s not that his work stands apart from others’, but that his poems hold themselves to a high standard, and in their purposes and sympathies… Read More
“Sugar Sand Stitched Lip” by Heyward Howkins
After getting his start playing guitar in Philadelphia's The Trouble with Sweeney, Heyward recently embarked on a solo career. Heyward is currently recording a debut release with a full band and innovative… Read More
Cynthia Draws Our Attention to the Very Entertaining “The History of English in 10 Minutes” Courtesy of the Open University
This is E-Verse endorsed. Very fun. … Read More
Garrett McNamara Rides a 90-Foot Wave . . . What Have You Done Today?
"Garrett McNamara just broke the world record for largest wave surfed by successfully navigating this 90-foot wall of watery death in Nazaré, Portugal. The previous record—77 feet—was set by Mike Parsons in… Read More
“No Opera Plot Can Be Sensible, for People Do Not Sing When They are Feeling Sensible”: Poetry and Music Course in Colorado with Ernest Hilbert
In ABC of Reading, Ezra Pound proposed that “poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.” How do musical elements of poetry affect us as readers and listeners? How does one… Read More
“Death To Van Gogh’s Ear” by Allen Ginsberg
"Nobody publishes a word that is not the cowardly robot ravings of a depraved mentality." - Allen Ginsberg… Read More
“Disastrous!” Geoffrey Hill Talks about Poets Who Rewrite their Own Poems, Courtesy of Tower Poetry
"Yeats is the only poet who can be applauded on some, but certainly not all, of his rewritings." - Geoffrey Hill… Read More
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Mosquito
Mosquitoes are the bane of any hammock-lover's life, particularly here in Philadelphia. I war against them with sprays, and machines that give off scents, and LED-lights with suction vacuums, and, of course,… Read More
“The Lost Kings Uphold My Side” by Ernest Hilbert (with Audio!)
Ernest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets (2009). A spoken word album recorded with rock band and orchestra, Elegies & Laments, will appear on vinyl and for digital download in the… Read More
“Another Elegy” by Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an MFA from… Read More
“The Gardener” by The Tallest Man on Earth
Kristian Mattson AKA The Tallest Man on Earth performs his song The Gardener in the Swedish sunset. … Read More
Poet Quincy Lehr’s Band Black Statues Live at Arlene’s Grocery in NYC
Check out Black Statues, the band with America's third most dangerous poet on bass. … Read More
“Minotaur” by Joanna Pearson
Joanna Pearson's first collection of poetry, Oldest Mortal Myth (Story Line Press, 2012), won the 2012 Donald Justice Poetry Prize.… Read More