“’Good Taste Is the Excuse I’ve Always Given’” by Ernest Hilbert
All of You on the Good Earth by Ernest Hilbert (scheduled release in 2013) guides the reader through chambers occupied by visionary gravediggers and spaced-out movie stars, frenzied dropouts, sullen pirates, and… Read More
“Existential Horror Santa” and Other Scary Santas
It's surprising that kids aren't more scared of a fat old hermit who enters their houses once a year in the dead of night, and these guys aren't helping! Welcome to Scary… Read More
6th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival
The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is calling for entries for the 6th competition to find the best poetry films! Entries should be short films based on poems. Prizes in the competition will… Read More
“Eight Types of Christopher”: Eight Clerihews by Neil Garr
Neil Garr is an obscure but important author of Clerihews about gentlemen named Christopher. No, that is not a picture of him. That's Christopher Logue, RIP. … Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Poem “Internet K-Hole” in At Length Magazine’s “Telephone” Project
At Length is a venue for ambitious, in-depth writing, music, photography, and art that are open to possibilities shorter forms preclude. As a print-friendly online magazine, we create ways for readers, listeners,… Read More
“A Hundred Bolts of Satin” by Kay Ryan
“Each poem twists around and back upon its argument like a river retracing its path; they are didactic in spirit, but a bedrock wit supports them.” - Meghan O’Rourke … Read More
“Lot’s Wife” by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Max Hayward and Stanley Kunitz
"No one in my large family wrote poetry. But the first Russian woman poet, Anna Bunina, was the aunt of my grandfather Erasm Ivanovich Stogov. The Stogovs were modest landowners in the… Read More
“How to Be a Sensitive Poet” by Matt Groening
A simple guide to becoming a poet . . . … Read More
James Fenton and Durs Grünbein at the 92nd Street Y
James Fenton will be introduced by Richard Howard. Durs Grünbein will be introduced by Michael Eskin, who will also be reading English translations of Grünbein’s work.… Read More
Two Advent Poems 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 reviews,… Read More
“Hymn to Aphrodite” by Sappho, translated by William Hyde Appleton
Come then now, dear goddess, and release me . . .… Read More
“ROSA” by Jesús Orellana
"ROSA is an epic sci-fi short film that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where all natural life has disappeared."… Read More
E-Verser Cynthia Sends in Her Seasonal Picks
"Here are my kick-off picks for Christmas, Hannukah, and Kwanza!"… Read More
How Many Bookshelves Does a Man Need to Be Happy?
You will never really have enough. … Read More
It’s Official: This is the Worst Music Video of All Time
The blog Dangerous Minds asks "could Alternate Reality’s 'The King That Never Was' be the worst song and music video of 2011? You tell me. The video starts out with the aesthetic… Read More
“The Dead” by Mina Loy
"Loy has been labelled a Futurist, Dadaist, Surrealist, feminist, conceptualist, modernist, and post-modernist. Experimenting with media in her artwork, she moved from oil to ink by World War I, then lighting fixtures… Read More
“Mobius,” a Short Film by Vincent Laforet
A short film about a photojournalist who stumbles upon a cartel execution and supernatural events in the the "Zone of Silence" in Mexico. Starring David Lyons, Luis Moncada, Edward Mora, and Marco… Read More
“Evening Solace” by Charlotte Brontë
"Averse to personal publicity, we veiled our own names under those of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell; the ambiguous choice being dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names… Read More
“A.D. Blood” by Edgar Lee Masters, from Spoon River Anthology
"Of course what made Spoon River Anthology immediately popular was the shock of recognition. Here for the first time in America was the whole of a society which people recognized - not… Read More
from “Jacques Lipchitz” by Paul Siegell
Created entirely in Microsoft Word, Jacques Lipchitz is a book-length visual poem built upon typographical recreations of the sculptor's biography and works. Known as one of the twentieth century's major artists, Jacques… Read More
“Framed”: A Neat Little Twilight-Zonish Film Shot Entirely on an Iphone 4S by Mael Sevestre
Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in. … Read More
“Glorious First” by Ernest Hilbert in American Arts Quarterly
American Arts Quarterly is available free of charge to artists, scholars and related professionals. … Read More
What America’s Got Talent Should Be Like: Warning, Much Pain Self-Inflicted by Participants
Ouch! These guys are tough as nails. And they know nails!… Read More
“Dusting” by Marilyn Nelson
“She is moral, loving, visionary … Reading her work is as much a lesson in history and in human nature as it is a lesson in poetry.” - Joyce S. Brown… Read More
“Thanks” by W. S. Merwin
"In his elusive pallors, Merwin sometimes comes near a flawless balance of cadence and meaning." - Helen Vendler… Read More
The Coolest Thing Involving Birds that You Will See Today: “Murmuration” a Short Film by Sophie Windsor Clive
This is a must for bird lovers as well as students of gas and cloud theory and those with an interest in hive minds or collective consciousness. … Read More
“A Pot Poured Out” by Samuel Menashe
"Although his poems appeared with some regularity in journals like Partisan Review and The New Yorker, he wrote and lived as a bohemian, and throughout his career encountered difficulties in finding a… Read More