“BUNGA-BUNGA” by Quincy Lehr
A brand new poem from one of our favorite young New York poets. … Read More
“Hottentot Venus” by Cathy Park Hong
"Cathy Park Hong's first book, Translating Mo'um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second collection, Dance Dance Revolution, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published… Read More
“My Blackberry Is Not Working!”: Soooo Dumb it Actually Works
Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in. … Read More
“I Am Very Bothered” by Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage (b. 1963) burst onto the poetry scene with Zoom! in 1989 and quickly established himself as the most high-profile poet in the group dubbed "The New Generation." … Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Introduction to the Maude Translation of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Issued as Part of the Canterbury Classics Series
(ERNEST HILBERT) TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace, translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude. San Diego: Baker and Taylor/Thunder Bay, 2011. Stout octavo, hardcover. $24.95. ISBN-10: 1607103109… Read More
“Memories Of Old Awake”: a Short Film from Cambridge University
Dr Emily Lethbridge of Cambridge University explored centuries-old Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) over the course of a year-long research trip. Lethbridge discovers that the sagas are closely related to the landscapes and… Read More
“At the Archaeological Institute of America Conference” by Ernest Hilbert
All of You on the Good Earth guides the reader through chambers occupied by visionary gravediggers and spaced-out movie stars, frenzied dropouts, sullen pirates, and unrelenting stalkers, noble war correspondents and cornered… Read More
“Tutorial” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of Drunken Boat
"But if the poet’s present seems much more peaceful than the poems’ past, Hilbert is not at all sure that is an advantage. The most savage poems in Welcome to all the… Read More
“Yggdrasil” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Number of Measure
Measure, as a biannual journal, has a mission not only to publish the best new poetry from both established and emerging writers, but also to reprint a small sampling of poems from… Read More
“Hortus” by Fleur Adcock
"Fleur Adcock (b.1934) is a New Zealander by birth but spent part of her childhood in England, returning to live in London in 1963. She worked as a librarian until 1979 before… Read More
“Poem In October” by Dylan Thomas
"Robert Graves summed up all lines of attack when he denounced Thomas as 'a demagogic Welsh masturbator who failed to pay his bills.' Over the years there have been honourable critical exceptions… Read More
“Self-Pity / Paranoia / Bitterness / Bile / Weird Lips . . .” Matt Groening’s Guide to the Modern Creative Artistic Types, as True Today as it Was in 1984
How much have poets changed since 1984?… Read More
“After the Rain” by Anthony Hecht
“It was Hecht's gift to see into the darker recesses of our complex lives and conjure to his command the exact words to describe what he found there. Hecht remained skeptical about… Read More
“Bring Me the Sweat of Gabriela Sabatini” by Clive James
“In a culture growing weak from forgetfulness to be memorable should be the aim.” - Clive James… Read More
“Last One Out” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of Drunken Boat
"To be haunted, for an American poet today, is a rare and enviable condition. Not by personal demons—everyone has those, and when poets write about them they are really haunting themselves. To… Read More
“An Exercise in Love” by Diane di Prima
"Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian." - Allen Ginsberg… Read More
“A Bridge Too Far” a Short Film by James Miller
A1(M) overnight bridge demolition between Darlington & Dishforth.… Read More
Periodic Table of Heavy Metals . . .
Thanks to composer and E-Verser Trevor for sending this one in. Good find.… Read More
Kipling Cross and New Criticism Street: A Poet’s Tube Map
Courtesy of Robert Peake. … Read More
“Corn and Gumballs Quarters Only / Do Not Jiggle Knobs or You Will be Banished . . .”: Found Poem Discovered at the Mouth of Long Cove on Neck Island by Botanist and Naturalist Javier Penalosa
Jan Schreiber submits a found poem forwarded to him by botanist and naturalist Javier Penalosa.… Read More
David Yezzi’s Opera Firebird Motel Performed in Delaware
(Contains mature language and subject matter. Not recommended for younger audiences.)… Read More
“Sunrise with Sea Monsters” by Ernest Hilbert
Coming in 2013: All of You on the Good Earth guides the reader through chambers occupied by visionary gravediggers, spaced-out movie stars and pugnacious comic book characters come to life, frenzied dropouts,… Read More
“Center City” by Ernest Hilbert
The bank that inspired this poem is now an Apple store, for whatever that's worth . . . … Read More
“Balloon Man” by James Matthew Wilson
James Matthew Wilson teaches in the Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at Villanova University and is an editor of Front Porch Republic (frontporchrepublic.com). He has published many essays, poems, and… Read More
“Couple” by Justin Quinn
Justin Quinn was born in Dublin in 1968 and educated at Trinity College. Since 1995 he has taught American literature at the Charles University, Prague. He has published three books of criticism,… Read More