“The Arsenal at Springfield” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!… Read More
“Sinners Welcome” by Mary Karr
Mary Karr is a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She has won Pushcart Prizes for both verse and essays, and is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University. Her previous two memoirs,… Read More
“Catnip: Egress to Oblivion? [Classroom Drug Educational Film]” by Jason Willis
Does your cat have a drug problem? … Read More
“To Shoot Guns and Drink Hard Liquor”: Conan O’Brien Hangs Out with Hunter S. Thompson
Thanks to E-Verser Brian for sending this in. Made our weekend. … Read More
“Just a Smack at Auden” by William Empson
"Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men." - William Empson… Read More
From “Lutèce, te amo” by Ahren Warner
Ahren Warner won an Eric Gregory Award in 2010, and an Arts Foundation Award in 2012. His first collection, Confer, was published by Bloodaxe in 2011; it was a Poetry Book Society… Read More
Call me Migaloo . . .
"Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with Europa; not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely swam. No wonder there had… Read More
“Past One O’Clock” by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated by Max Hayward and George Reavey
"This poem was found among Mayakovsky’s papers after his suicide on April 14, 1930. He had used the middle section, with slight changes, as an epilogue to his suicide note."… Read More
“Accidentally Like a Martyr” by Warren Zevon
A classic by Zevon, often overlooked in favor of other hits. Live at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic NJ. Oct 1, 1982.… Read More
E-Verse Equinox Presents an Evening of Poetry with Michael Dickman, Catie Rosemurgy, Thomas Devaney, and Jehanne Dubrow, Hosted by Ernest Hilbert
The E-Verse Equinox Reading Series features poets from Philadelphia and around the country. Past readers include Matthew Zapruder, Timothy Donnelly, Afaa Michael Weaver, David Yezzi, Elizabeth Gold, Bojan Louis, and Daniel Nester.… Read More
“Living Together” by James Matthew Wilson
James Matthew Wilson is the author of Four Verse Letters (2010) and Timothy Steele: A Critical Introduction (2012), as well as some two hundred poems, essays, and reviews. An award-winning scholar of… Read More
Cynthia Says the South Will Rise Again (at Least the Dinosaur Kingdom Park in Natural Bridge, VA)
T. Rex vs. Ulysses S. Grant!… Read More
“Citation” by Joshua Mehigan
Influenced by the poetry of Philip Larkin, Jorge Luis Borges, and Edgar Bowers, Mehigan writes intelligent, morally complex lyric poems shaped by a nuanced attention to rhyme and meter. Critic Adam Kirsch… Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Introduction to Four Jules Verne Novels, Issued in the Canterbury Classics Series
Verne’s first novel imagined men floating almost helplessly across a largely unmapped Africa in search of the still-undiscovered sources of the Nile. By the time Around the World in Eighty Days was… Read More
“Like Blonde Girls Pray to Jesus” by Quincy Lehr
Quincy Lehr's most recent collection is Obscure Classics of English Progressive Rock. … Read More
“Effigies” by John Mole
A poem inspired by Philip Larkin's "An Arundel Tomb," from this week's Times Literary Supplement. … Read More
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
“Work Song” by Nate Cannonball Adderley (1962)
Cannonball In Europe! was recorded live on August 5, 1962 at the International Jazz Festival in Comblain-La-Tour, a small town in Belgium. … Read More
“Tidepooling with Julian” by Dylan Willoughby
Dylan Willoughby's recent publications are a limited-edition chapbook, Dusk at St. Mark's, from Chester Creek Press, and poems in Agenda (UK) and Green Mountains Review. He is the past recipient of… Read More
“The Broken Tower” by Hart Crane
"Hart Crane is a legendary figure among American poets. In his personal life he showed little self-esteem, indulging in great and frequent bouts of alcohol abuse. In his art, however, he showed… Read More
“Northeast Corridor” by Rosanna Warren
Rosanna Warren, the author of four collections of poetry, has received awards from the Academy of Arts and Letters and has won the Lamont Poetry Prize. She teaches at Boston University and… Read More
“The Seated Lady” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of B O D Y Magazine
Ernest Hilbert's poem "The Seated Lady" appears in the new issue of B O D Y magazine. Also read poems by Ed Skoog, Louis Armand, and Betsy Brown. … Read More
“Late Summer” by Jennifer Grotz
"Jennifer Grotz is a poet and translator whose first original collection, Cusp (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), won the Bakeless Prize in poetry, as well as the Natalie Ornish Prize from the Texas Institute… 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
“Becalmed” by David Yezzi
David Yezzi is currently at work on the authorized biography of Anthony Hecht for St. Martin's Press in New York. … 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
“O Carib Isle!” by Hart Crane
"In the years since his death, Crane has earned recognition as an ambitious and accomplished—if not entirely successful—poet, one whose goals vastly exceeded his capabilities (and, probably, anyone else's) but whose talent… 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