Verge Books

Verge poet Eric Elsthain will be reading with Brandon Kilbourne at 57th Street Books in Chicago on Friday, November 14 at 4PM. semcoop.com/event/afternoo…

Spending August training for this marathon. Mark your calendars. A dozen readers, a dozen presses. September 5. The Whistler.

My translation of Ajax is getting some decent press: washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…

John Tipton's translation of Ajax, Sophocles' tragedy, is brought to the stage by Scena Theatre in Washington, DC: dctheaterarts.org/2025/01/26/sce…

Dan Beachy-Quick reviews Joseph Donahue’s TERRA LUCIDA XIII-XXI in the LA Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-la… via @lareviewofbooks

The Bees - Georgics, Book IV - translated by Joel Calahan Now available vergebooks.com/#/joel-calahan…

Verge poet Patrick Morrissey will be giving a virtual talk for the Friends of Lorine Niedecker on Sunday, November 10, at 5 PM Central. lorineniedecker.org/event/niedecke…

TERRA LUCIDA XIII - XXI by Joseph Donahue Now available vergebooks.com/#/new-page-2/

Ed Roberson reading from MPH at Hungry Brain (@HungryBrainChi) to a full house on January 15. Photo by @heyclown

Now available: Verge Ephemera #4 - “Sue’s True Skull” - broadside with poem by Eric Elshtain and watercolor by Peggy Macnamara. vergebooks.com/#/eric-elshtai…

Termites on the menu today @fieldmuseum. Sitting in the Small Treasures Room, also helping students compose poems about bugs. One wrote: "Bugs give me the heeby-jeebies/because they are creepy-crawlies."

RADIANT TETHER by Aby Kaupang now available from Verge Books vergebooks.com/#/aby-kaupang-…

Robert Adamson would have turned 80 today: a great poet, much loved and much missed.

Amazing day, again with Sue--many visitors came "to meet the poet"! In the meantime, I worked on a poem about Sue's mix of real and fabrication. "The full Sue, part-self/part-made must wear a second skeleton wrought from iron to help them take another stand."

I’m super excited to be reading with Aby Kaupang this Friday, Feb 24, as part of the Fort Collins Book Fest. 7pm @ Snowbank Brewing, Fort Collins. focobookfest.org/session/oh-god…

Dan Beachy-Quick recommends John Tipton's BELIEVERS AND SEVEN SERMONS FROM THE BACCHAE: "Tipton accomplishes what few translations from ancient literature can hope to manage—usher us into the timeless now of utmost human condition." coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/toward…

I’m reading with Leila Wilson & Peter O’Leary in the Cactus Flower series next week.