Sandra Simonds, Warsaw Bikini (Bloof)
Lytton Smith, The All-Purpose Magical Tent (Nightboat)
An international literary journal from 1984 to 2018, Verse now administers the Tomaž Šalamun Prize.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
submissions update
We've just wrapped up a 450-page issue and have finally cleared the decks.
Verse will open to submissions again this summer.
The submissions process will be different than before.
Verse is now paying contributors, ~ $200 per contributor.
Stay tuned for details.
Verse will open to submissions again this summer.
The submissions process will be different than before.
Verse is now paying contributors, ~ $200 per contributor.
Stay tuned for details.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Recent & Recommended
Bill Berkson, Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House)
Fanny Howe, The Winter Sun (Graywolf)
G.C. Waldrep, Archicembalo (Tupelo)
Fanny Howe, The Winter Sun (Graywolf)
G.C. Waldrep, Archicembalo (Tupelo)
Monday, April 20, 2009
free classroom sets of Verse
UPDATE May 6: We've just sent out over 30 boxes (1000 copies) of Verse and have pretty much depleted our stocks. Thanks to everyone for their interest and for putting the magazine into students' hands.
UPDATE May 2: We're currently sorting through boxes and sending them out. We have more than a dozen requests outstanding, and we'll proceed to fulfilling those as soon as we've caught up. Thanks for your patience.
UPDATE Wednesday: If you requested a classroom set but didn't leave an email address or mailing address, please submit another comment and leave an address. We have 20+ boxes going out, and are looking through the stacks to see what's left. There are another 10 or so requests outstanding, and we hope to accommodate those.
[UPDATE (9pm Monday): We still have a couple of boxes of the issues listed below. When we run out of these issues, we will offer more classroom sets of different issues in the near future. In the meantime, if you are a high school teacher and are not looking for a particular issue, we definitely can send you something. We've been especially delighted by the response from high school teachers around the country, though we're also delighted to send copies to college courses. When you comment, please include an email address or mailing address so we don't have to publish your comment to get in touch with you. ]
We need to clear out some storage space, so we're offering free classroom sets (entire boxes) of Verse to the first 20 instructors (of literature and/or creative writing, at any level, in any setting) who request them. While we cannot guarantee specific issues, we'll try to meet any special requests. Verse will cover shipping costs, too. We just ask that you put the magazine into students' hands, gratis.
Here's a list of what's available:
1) The Sequence Issue II (Rosmarie Waldrop, Gillian Conoley, Laynie Browne, Jenny Boully, Rusty Morrison, David Wojahn, Marianne Boruch, Corinne Lee, Richard Kenney, Kate Fagan, John Matthias, John Kinsella, Guy Bennet, Anthony Hawley, Barbara Hamby, Thorpe Moeckel, Daniel Coudriet, Sean McDonnell, Rusty Morrison interview, Theodore Enslin interview, plus book reviews) [1 box available]
2) The Sequence Issue (Theodore Enslin, Inger Christensen, Standard Schaefer, Susan Wheeler, Kathleen Ossip, Paul Hoover, Mary Jo Bang, Kevin Hart, Michael Burkard, Dawn-Michelle Baude, Leonard Schwartz, Craig Coyle, Maxine Chernoff, Christine Hume, plus Marjorie Perloff essay on Zukofsky, Ashley David essay on Ben Lerner) [1 box available]
3) The Prose Issue II (Rene Char, Helene Cixous, Diane Williams, Elke Erb, Clayton Eshleman, Craig Dworkin, Matthew Cooperman, John Kinsella, Michael Heller, Douglas Messerli, Petter Lindgren, Kevin Prufer, Noah E Gordon, Karla Kelsey, Rita Rich, Joshua Harmon, Susan Maxwell, Joy Katz, Peter Boyle, Michael Dietz, Paul Maliszewski, Fred Muratori, Gregory Brooker, Kevin Craft, Michelle Noteboom, Paul Killebrew, Carol Quinn, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, David Roderick, Michael Fagenblat essay on Jean-Luc Marion, Brad Flis essay on Tessa Rumsey, Timothy Donnelly essay on Don Paterson, Michael Theune essay on Yusef Komunyakaa, Chris McDermott essay on George Oppen, Reginald Shepherd interview, Kevin Hart interview, Don Paterson interview, Dara Wier interview, Charles North interview, Gustaf Sobin interview, Ed Dorn interview, plus book reviews) [1 box available]
4) Vol 23, #s1-3:
CONTENTS
Ethan Paquin / Hampton
Beth Anderson / five poems
Landis Everson / four poems
Pam Brown / five poems
Chris Pusateri / on Ted Berrigan’s Collected Poems
Erica Kaufman / on Joshua Beckman’s Shake
Thomas Fink / on Shanna Compton’s Down Spooky
John Findura / on Jennifer L. Knox’s A Gringo Like Me
Victoria Boynton / TV Lover
Maxine Chernoff / He Picked up his Pen in her Defense
Peter Rose / two poems
Heather Christle / three poems
G.C. Waldrep / What Lived in our Mouths
Jeffery Bahr / two poems
Jonathan Thirkfield / The Mourners (44:44)
Hadara Bar-Nadav / two poems
Carrie Etter / on Ted Mathys’ Forge
Ezekiel Black / on Corinne Lee’s Pyx
Katherine Hollander / on Timothy Liu’s For Dust Thou Art
Timothy Liu / Umbilical
Crystal Curry / Tu Quoque
Jenny Boully / Loy Krathong
Julie Carr / three poems
Ray DiPalma / three poems
Priscilla Becker / two poems
Judith Bishop / Interval
Mary Crow / Meantime: Blizzards
Paul McCormick / A Few Ways Forests Can Change Over Time
Erika Howsare / islands
Henry Hart / on George Witte’s The Apparitioners
Joshua Corey / on Gustaf Sobin’s The Places as Preludes
Chris McDermott / on Alice Fulton’s Cascade Experiment
Dawn-Michelle Baude / Luberon Dialogue, Field #3
Samuel Amadon / The Meadows
John Gallaher / four poems
Chad Sweeney / eight poems
Sarah Riggs / Cretan Monologues
Peter Markus / We Make Mud
Chris Green / Fertility Woes
Michael Earl Craig / The Accomplished Hand
Craig Sherborne / Stablehand
Gordon Meade / two poems
Jennifer Mackenzie / Real Time
Simeon Berry / Screed, 2D
Seth Abramson / Come in, Radio Ceylon
Michael Hansen / Sonnet for a Picture
Chris Wallace-Crabbe / It’s Like Reading Smoke
Lytton Smith / Scarecrow Work
Mike White / two poems
Schirin Nowrousian / concrete
Brandon Shimoda / on Sawako Nakayasu’s nothing fictional but . . .
Thomas Fink / on John Yau’s Ing Grish
Cathy Park Hong / two poems
Jessica Olin / two poems
Sarah Mangold / Life as the Emperor
Bruce Covey / three poems
James Shea / three poems
Catie Rosemurgy / three poems
Christopher Salerno / two poems
Sandra Miller / Girls.
Emma Bolden / Epistle IV
Ed Davis / three poems
Stan Mir / two poems
Jerry Harp / The Creature Remembers
Joshua Corey / on John Kinsella’s The New Arcadia
Richard Scheiwe / on Thomas Heise’s Horror Vacui
Paula Koneazny / on Ethan Paquin’s The Violence
Morgan Lucas Schuldt / from Inamorata
Brian Teare / Dead House Sonnet
Emily Wilson / two poems
Sarah Goldstein / three poems
Chris Tonelli / three poems
Kevin McFadden / I.e.
Barbara Hamby / A Birdman to You, Baby
Natasha Kochicheril Moni / In the end it is always the books,
Lesley Jenike / two poems
Roy Seeger / The Beginnings of Human Expression
Peter Ramos / two poems
Jesse Lichtenstein / three poems
Lucy Ives / on Muriel Rukeyser’s Collected Poems
Ethan Paquin / on Thomas Merton’s In the Dark Before Dawn
[1 box available]
To request a classroom set, submit a comment below (it won't be published, but we'll record the request) or email Brian.
UPDATE May 2: We're currently sorting through boxes and sending them out. We have more than a dozen requests outstanding, and we'll proceed to fulfilling those as soon as we've caught up. Thanks for your patience.
UPDATE Wednesday: If you requested a classroom set but didn't leave an email address or mailing address, please submit another comment and leave an address. We have 20+ boxes going out, and are looking through the stacks to see what's left. There are another 10 or so requests outstanding, and we hope to accommodate those.
[UPDATE (9pm Monday): We still have a couple of boxes of the issues listed below. When we run out of these issues, we will offer more classroom sets of different issues in the near future. In the meantime, if you are a high school teacher and are not looking for a particular issue, we definitely can send you something. We've been especially delighted by the response from high school teachers around the country, though we're also delighted to send copies to college courses. When you comment, please include an email address or mailing address so we don't have to publish your comment to get in touch with you. ]
We need to clear out some storage space, so we're offering free classroom sets (entire boxes) of Verse to the first 20 instructors (of literature and/or creative writing, at any level, in any setting) who request them. While we cannot guarantee specific issues, we'll try to meet any special requests. Verse will cover shipping costs, too. We just ask that you put the magazine into students' hands, gratis.
Here's a list of what's available:
1) The Sequence Issue II (Rosmarie Waldrop, Gillian Conoley, Laynie Browne, Jenny Boully, Rusty Morrison, David Wojahn, Marianne Boruch, Corinne Lee, Richard Kenney, Kate Fagan, John Matthias, John Kinsella, Guy Bennet, Anthony Hawley, Barbara Hamby, Thorpe Moeckel, Daniel Coudriet, Sean McDonnell, Rusty Morrison interview, Theodore Enslin interview, plus book reviews) [1 box available]
2) The Sequence Issue (Theodore Enslin, Inger Christensen, Standard Schaefer, Susan Wheeler, Kathleen Ossip, Paul Hoover, Mary Jo Bang, Kevin Hart, Michael Burkard, Dawn-Michelle Baude, Leonard Schwartz, Craig Coyle, Maxine Chernoff, Christine Hume, plus Marjorie Perloff essay on Zukofsky, Ashley David essay on Ben Lerner) [1 box available]
3) The Prose Issue II (Rene Char, Helene Cixous, Diane Williams, Elke Erb, Clayton Eshleman, Craig Dworkin, Matthew Cooperman, John Kinsella, Michael Heller, Douglas Messerli, Petter Lindgren, Kevin Prufer, Noah E Gordon, Karla Kelsey, Rita Rich, Joshua Harmon, Susan Maxwell, Joy Katz, Peter Boyle, Michael Dietz, Paul Maliszewski, Fred Muratori, Gregory Brooker, Kevin Craft, Michelle Noteboom, Paul Killebrew, Carol Quinn, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, David Roderick, Michael Fagenblat essay on Jean-Luc Marion, Brad Flis essay on Tessa Rumsey, Timothy Donnelly essay on Don Paterson, Michael Theune essay on Yusef Komunyakaa, Chris McDermott essay on George Oppen, Reginald Shepherd interview, Kevin Hart interview, Don Paterson interview, Dara Wier interview, Charles North interview, Gustaf Sobin interview, Ed Dorn interview, plus book reviews) [1 box available]
4) Vol 23, #s1-3:
CONTENTS
Ethan Paquin / Hampton
Beth Anderson / five poems
Landis Everson / four poems
Pam Brown / five poems
Chris Pusateri / on Ted Berrigan’s Collected Poems
Erica Kaufman / on Joshua Beckman’s Shake
Thomas Fink / on Shanna Compton’s Down Spooky
John Findura / on Jennifer L. Knox’s A Gringo Like Me
Victoria Boynton / TV Lover
Maxine Chernoff / He Picked up his Pen in her Defense
Peter Rose / two poems
Heather Christle / three poems
G.C. Waldrep / What Lived in our Mouths
Jeffery Bahr / two poems
Jonathan Thirkfield / The Mourners (44:44)
Hadara Bar-Nadav / two poems
Carrie Etter / on Ted Mathys’ Forge
Ezekiel Black / on Corinne Lee’s Pyx
Katherine Hollander / on Timothy Liu’s For Dust Thou Art
Timothy Liu / Umbilical
Crystal Curry / Tu Quoque
Jenny Boully / Loy Krathong
Julie Carr / three poems
Ray DiPalma / three poems
Priscilla Becker / two poems
Judith Bishop / Interval
Mary Crow / Meantime: Blizzards
Paul McCormick / A Few Ways Forests Can Change Over Time
Erika Howsare / islands
Henry Hart / on George Witte’s The Apparitioners
Joshua Corey / on Gustaf Sobin’s The Places as Preludes
Chris McDermott / on Alice Fulton’s Cascade Experiment
Dawn-Michelle Baude / Luberon Dialogue, Field #3
Samuel Amadon / The Meadows
John Gallaher / four poems
Chad Sweeney / eight poems
Sarah Riggs / Cretan Monologues
Peter Markus / We Make Mud
Chris Green / Fertility Woes
Michael Earl Craig / The Accomplished Hand
Craig Sherborne / Stablehand
Gordon Meade / two poems
Jennifer Mackenzie / Real Time
Simeon Berry / Screed, 2D
Seth Abramson / Come in, Radio Ceylon
Michael Hansen / Sonnet for a Picture
Chris Wallace-Crabbe / It’s Like Reading Smoke
Lytton Smith / Scarecrow Work
Mike White / two poems
Schirin Nowrousian / concrete
Brandon Shimoda / on Sawako Nakayasu’s nothing fictional but . . .
Thomas Fink / on John Yau’s Ing Grish
Cathy Park Hong / two poems
Jessica Olin / two poems
Sarah Mangold / Life as the Emperor
Bruce Covey / three poems
James Shea / three poems
Catie Rosemurgy / three poems
Christopher Salerno / two poems
Sandra Miller / Girls.
Emma Bolden / Epistle IV
Ed Davis / three poems
Stan Mir / two poems
Jerry Harp / The Creature Remembers
Joshua Corey / on John Kinsella’s The New Arcadia
Richard Scheiwe / on Thomas Heise’s Horror Vacui
Paula Koneazny / on Ethan Paquin’s The Violence
Morgan Lucas Schuldt / from Inamorata
Brian Teare / Dead House Sonnet
Emily Wilson / two poems
Sarah Goldstein / three poems
Chris Tonelli / three poems
Kevin McFadden / I.e.
Barbara Hamby / A Birdman to You, Baby
Natasha Kochicheril Moni / In the end it is always the books,
Lesley Jenike / two poems
Roy Seeger / The Beginnings of Human Expression
Peter Ramos / two poems
Jesse Lichtenstein / three poems
Lucy Ives / on Muriel Rukeyser’s Collected Poems
Ethan Paquin / on Thomas Merton’s In the Dark Before Dawn
[1 box available]
To request a classroom set, submit a comment below (it won't be published, but we'll record the request) or email Brian.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Recent & Recommended
Jennifer Firestone, Holiday (Shearsman)
L.S. Klatt, Interloper (Massachusetts)
Laura Sims, Stranger (Fence)
L.S. Klatt, Interloper (Massachusetts)
Laura Sims, Stranger (Fence)
Friday, April 10, 2009
Laura Sims & L.S. Klatt reading


Thursday, April 16
7pm
University of Richmond
Jepson Hall, 120
Laura Sims is the author of two books: Practice, Restraint and the brand new Stranger, both from Fence Books.
L.S. Klatt's first book, Interloper, won the Juniper Prize and was just published by the Univ of Massachusetts Press.
Book signing and Q&A after the reading.
Free and open to the public.
For directions: http://www.richmond.edu/visit/directions/
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Recent & Recommended
Kyle Buckley, The Laundromat Essay (Coach House)
Sarah Gambito, Delivered (Persea)
Michael Gizzi, New Depths of Deadpan (Burning Deck)
K.A. Hays, Dear Apocalypse (Carnegie Mellon)
Michael Palmer, Active Boundaries (New Directions)
Sarah Gambito, Delivered (Persea)
Michael Gizzi, New Depths of Deadpan (Burning Deck)
K.A. Hays, Dear Apocalypse (Carnegie Mellon)
Michael Palmer, Active Boundaries (New Directions)
Friday, April 03, 2009
Recent & Recommended
Norma Cole, Natural Light (Libellum)
Keith Waldrop, Transcendental Studies (California)
Keith Waldrop, Transcendental Studies (California)
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