“Sepsis” by C. Dale Young
C. Dale Young practices medicine full-time, serves as Poetry Editor of the New England Review, and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of The… Read More
Support “Music After”: Marathon Concert Representing Creative Musicians Downtown on September 11th
Music After is a marathon concert, co-produced by composers Eleonor Sandresky and Daniel Felsenfeld, to take place on September 11, 2011 at Joyce SoHo on Mercer Street, commencing at 9:18am and finishing… Read More
“One to a Customer!” Yeah, with Five Different Rums in It, That’s Probably a Good Idea
"On National Rum Day, enjoy the rummiest classic recipe we could find. From our 1941 edition of W.C. Whitfield's drink mixing masterpiece 'Here's How,' a Zombie cocktail that calls for no fewer… Read More
“Confusion . . . Distaste . . . Impatience . . . Inadequacy . . . Ambivalence . . . . Television”: Notes on Poetry
Thanks to Casey for sending this one in. … Read More
Feel Guilty Riding the Bus? Too Much Pollution? Not Enough Exercise? Never Fear! You Can Ride the City Cycle!
The 14 passenger hybrid City Cycle! Thanks to Andrew for sending this in. … Read More
“Leviathan” by W.S. Merwin
"Can you draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?" - Job 41:1, KJV… Read More
“Questions for Leonardo” by Malinda Miller
Malinda C. Miller has served as an editor of Many Mountains Moving, and her poetry has appeared in Improv, Open Windows III, and In the Named World, and Poems from the Poetry… Read More
“Summer Stars” by Carl Sandburg
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” - Carl Sandburg… Read More
“For Once, Then, Something” by Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost… Read More
“A Green Crab’s Shell” by Mark Doty
"Doty's fourth collection, coming after the 1993 National Book Critics' Circle award-winning My Alexandria, is anchored in the lush and pressing world of loss. He begins calmly with sensually descriptive poems that… Read More
“The Transformation of Arachne into a Spider” by Ovid, translated by Sir Samuel Garth, John Dryden, et al, from Book the Sixth of Metamorphoses
"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would… Read More
“Song of the Lotos-Eaters” by Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson
"Our readers will, we think, agree that this is admirable characteristic; and that the singers of this song must have made pretty free with the intoxicating fruit. How they got home you… Read More
“At the Fishhouses” by Elizabeth Bishop
Maybe this will cool us down a bit today . . . … Read More
“Today” by Frank O’Hara
"[Frank O'Hara's] work seems to me to represent the last stage in the adaptation of twentieth-century avant-garde sensibility to poetry about contemporary American experience. In its music and its language and in… Read More
“The Starvefish” by Katy Evans-Bush
"Poems full of life, wit, and vitality." - Linda Grant… Read More
“Say Something that is Insanely Smart But Also Kind of Mean”: What Would Don Draper Do? Courtesy of The Oatmeal
New fun from the brilliant website The Oatmeal. If you're not familiar with this website, please visit right away. Also, buy the book. I have, and it's worth it.… Read More
Well, It’s a Start: The E-Verse Free Book Program Begins Small
After much planning, the first books in the E-Verse Free Book Program have landed on the shelf at Ants Pants cafe. These meager offerings will grow in time, and the peculiar range… Read More
“THUD!” by Quincy Lehr
Where’ve our tortured artists gone, Catullus or Syd Barrett? Chasing after the latest grant and following the carrot.… Read More
Like Kitty Porn? Then Try Cute Overload!
Ridiculous, we know, but if you have some time to spare, Cute Overload is a website devoted to images that press the "awwwwww" button in us all.… Read More
“Strawberries” by Edwin Morgan
"I don’t think the future of poetry is all that black. I think it will be possible to write long poems again. The space age will perhaps bring a kind of epic… Read More
“You Should Have Seen the Cover they Wanted to Do!”: Some Simply Awful Heavy Metal Album Covers
It’s hard to believe, but there was an era, long ago, in which CDs, cassette tapes, and even vinyl albums were purchased and carried around. These primitive objects had to be covered… Read More
“And Indians” by Glyn Maxwell
"Poetry is words in space, representing words in time." - Glyn Maxwell… Read More
Hilbert Heads Across the Pond
I'm heading out for London (antiquarian book fairs, auctions, work . . .), Oxford (a reading, spending the night at St. John's college), Leamington Spa (day off), and the Scottish highlands (where… Read More
One man’s junk . . . Check Out Artist Zac Freeman’s Portraits Created from the Debris You Accumulate in Your Couches and Drawers
Thanks to Cynthia for sending this in.… Read More
Christopher Bernard’s New Film “Woof!” to Premier in San Francisco
Saturday, JUNE 11th AMNESIA bar 853 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA 94110 Early Show! 6pm-9pm with Musical Guest: LAUREN KLIEN… Read More
“See the Galaxy! Join the Empire”: Star Wars Propaganda Posters
Thanks to my brother for sending this in. … Read More
“Nights of 1998” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of Praxilla
From the forthcoming collection All of You on the Good Earth (2013). … Read More
“FIRE! FIRE! DROP THE GUN!”: Some Hilarious Toy Knockoffs
Product piracy is big business around the world. We see Prada bags and Cartier watches for $10 on the street corner. Imitation is everywhere. Why pay for Fruit Loops when you… Read More
E-Verse Nets 36,000 Readers in February!
We're getting there! The goal is 50,000 readers by year's end. Please share E-Verse with friends, family, and enemies. … Read More
“A night of drink, / A night of hate, / A night as dark, / As last nights [sic] date”: Sheen and Heard in the Poetry World
Some of you may recall E-Verse's top five poetry collections by celebrities. Let us not forget that Mr. Sheen, so beloved of popular news media (even as revolutions break out across the… Read More