“You Play Dean and I’ll Play Sal”: Jack Kerouac Writes to Marlon Brando Urging Him to Make a Movie of On the Road
Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in. … Read More
“At the Edge of the Parking Lot” by Chris Bullard
"Christopher Bullard's poems deal with the Big Themes: aging, mortality, death, loss of height and loss of hair. But don't despair: these poems will leave you with a bigger dose of mordancy… Read More
“Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money” by P. T. Barnum, 1880
Although he denied having ever said it, the famous (and, one suspects, quite honest), quote "There's a sucker born every minute" is attributed to Barnum, one of the great American entertainment businessmen.… Read More
“Bedroom Eyes” by Dum Dum Girls
Write about what you know. That's what they say. But that's a lot easier said than done when what you know is very, very difficult to bear. That was the challenge Dum… Read More
“A Year in New York” by Andrew Clancy
"Living in New York I'd grab my Canon 7D, or S95, and shoot footage of what was going on around me. It seemed like a never ending project and you could stay… Read More
You’re Still Wearing Pants on the Subway? Come On! Join the No Pants Subway Ride 2012
Welcome Cynthia, E-Verse's latest member. Cynthia keeps sane by doing crazy things. Her new column, Boulibaisse, like the original peasant soup, is made up of all things geek, absurd, oddly entertaining, and… Read More
“Disappearing Act” by Eleanor Ross Taylor
Of her work, Adrienne Rich has said, “speak of the underground life of women, the Southern white Protestant woman in particular, the woman-writer, the woman in the family, coping, hoarding, preserving, observing,… Read More
“Range” by Ernest Hilbert
Edinburgh’s oldest literary journal and released three times a year, The Edinburgh Review has been transforming the critical landscape since 1802. Issue 133 features poetry by Paul Muldoon, Ernest Hilbert, Jen Hadfield,… Read More
“Barton Hollow” by The Civil Wars
"In some ways, music doesn't get much more modest or minimalist than it is in the hands of The Civil Wars, a duo comprised of California-to-Nashville transplant Joy Williams and her Alabaman… Read More
A Reading of The Correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell at the 92nd Street Y
In her first letter to Robert Lowell, dated May 12, 1947, Elizabeth Bishop wrote, "I was supposed to read, too, up at the YMHA Saturday evening but couldn't make it, and I… Read More
“High Heel” by Erica Dawson, in the Best of the Barefoot Muse
An anthology of the best poems that appeared in the online journal, The Barefoot Muse, 2005-2010, selected and arranged by Anna M. Evans, including poems by Mike Alexander Tiel Aisha Ansari Peter… Read More
“The Words That Maketh Murder” by P.J. Harvey
"What if I take my problem to the United Nations?"… Read More
Happy New Year from Everyone at E-Verse!
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne! For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne. We'll take a… Read More
“Cryptid” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of The Edinburgh Review
Edinburgh’s oldest literary journal and released three times a year, The Edinburgh Review has been transforming the critical landscape since 1802. Issue 133 features poetry by Paul Muldoon, Ernest Hilbert, Jen Hadfield,… Read More
“That’s Why I Talk Money Like a Pool Sharp. It’s All Survival; Forgive Me”: Charles Bukowski Learns the Literary Hustle After Quitting His Job
Thanks to E-Verser Brian for sending this one in. … Read More
Books Read or Reread in 2011
Another year gone already? Strange. I never seem to spend as much time reading as I'd like. I imagine others share my dismay when I realize that yet another twelve months have… Read More
“&: A Serial Poem” by Daryl Hine
"For his control of learning and wit I can think of few poets alive who can approach him. There are very few poets as good as Daryl Hine and almost none like… Read More
“The Galilean Moons” by Kathleen Jamie
Kathleen Jamie (b. 1962) spent much of her early poetic career answering the question posed by the disapproving elders in her famous poem 'The Queen of Sheba': "whae do you think y'ur?".… Read More
“Romance” by Wild Flag
Most of the comments on YouTube are "hey, it's that chick from that show on TV!"… Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Reading at St. Paul’s Chapel on Boxing Day
I had the rather humbling honor of reading three of my poems at St. Paul's Chapel at 200 Broadway, nicknamed the 9/11 Chapel, with the Trinity Bach orchestra and choir, under the… Read More
“Schnaps Das War Sein Letztes Wort” by Onkel Tom Angelripper
Merry German metal Christmas!… Read More
“The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman” (1487) by Emily Dickinson
"Mr Higginson, Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?" - Emily Dickenson… Read More
“Hedgehog” by Paul Muldoon
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts… Read More
“Chelsea Hotel” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of The Edinburgh Review
Edinburgh’s oldest literary journal and released three times a year, The Edinburgh Review has been transforming the critical landscape since 1802. Issue 133 features poetry by Paul Muldoon, Ernest Hilbert, Jen Hadfield,… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads at St. Paul’s 9/11 Chapel in Manhattan with Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra conducted by Julian Wachner
On Boxing Day, December 26th, at 1PM, I will read from Auden’s “Christmas Oratorio” as well as from my own poems alongside performances of Bach cantatas by The Trinity Choir and Baroque… Read More
“Please” by Allan Peterson
"Peterson has a remarkable way of connecting diverse aspects of being. He touches on the subtle images he sees by exploring a vision beyond the momentary. His titles alone hint at the… Read More