light verse

Villanelle of His Poem’s Penury

after Ernest Dowson

Elsinore Agonistes (or MacLeish Unleashed)

David Alpaugh

David Alpaugh's first collection, Counterpoint, won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press. Journals that have published his poetry include Evergreen Review, The Formalist, Light, Poetry, Raintown Review, Rattle, The HyperTexts, and Zyzzyva. His essays—"The Professionalization of Poetry" and "What's Really Wrong with Poetry Book Contests"—have been widely discussed on and off line.

Podcast: Jim Hayes

Submitted by Alex Pepple on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 20:29.

The Able Muse/Eratosphere podcast series brings you Eratosphere's funnyman, Jim Hayes. And even if you're not in a laughing mood, Jim does 'serious' too. Jim brings us a highly polished, professional quality recording taken from the CD release that goes with his book, The Bad Habbits of Little Boys . . .

Complete details and podcast is available at:

Light Verse Bake-Off: Submission Deadline almost here

Submitted by Alex Pepple on Wed, 08/26/2009 - 10:09.

The submission deadline for the Light Verse Bake-Off for Able Muse / Eratosphere is August 28 — this Friday.

John Whitworth, who is in charge of the event this year, is looking forward to your submissions. Details are available at http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=8416 .