Ernest Hilbert at Poets House to Celebrate The Dark Horse’s 20th Anniversary
Hey, New Yorkers, join us at Poets House to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the legendary literary magazine The Dark Horse, hosted by editor and poet Gerry Cambridge. The New York event… Read More
“The Gelding” by Ernest Hilbert (with Audio)
"Tough-minded and precise, Ernest Hilbert’s lyrics, like his old mirror left out at the curb, turn an unflinching gaze on pieces of inner and outer landscapes we often push to the periphery.… Read More
Two Poems from Anne Boleyn’s Sleeve by Juliana Gray
"Juliana Gray is a beautiful and keen poet. My word, a gifted vision, almost egoless and yet fullhearted." - Barry Hannah … Read More
“Just Because I Love You” by BC Camplight
From the new album How to Die in the North. … Read More
“I Literally Can’t Even Right Now”: Daniel Nester on the Vogue for Vaguebooking on Facebook
E-Verser Daniel Nester, noted essayist, poet, and personality, has published an article on the new phenomenon of vaguebooking over at Buzzfeed.… Read More
“Bad Newz” by Stephen Burt
Breezily contemporary in feel, yet deeply lyrical in quality and effect. . . . Belmont is an outstanding collection at once thoughtful and witty, meditative but rapid-fire, a domestically rooted yet lyrically… Read More
“Little League” Kevin Durkin
Kevin Durkin attended schools in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Germany before earning his degree in English literature from Princeton University. He has taught English in Singapore, Kitakyushu (Japan), New York City, and… Read More
Ernest Hilbert with Brian Heston and Therese Halcheid
A Sunday Evening of Poetry with Ernest Hilbert, Brian Heston, and Therese Halchied Sunday, May 24, 7:30PM Tattooed Mom… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads with Anna Evans in Princeton
An Evening of New Poetry with Ernest Hilbert and Anna Evans Free and open to the public Monday, May 11th, 7:30PM Princeton Public Library 65 Witherspoon St Princeton, New Jersey 08542 (609)… Read More
“The Third Rail” by Brian Heston
Brian Patrick Heston grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His poems have won awards from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, and the Lanier Library Association. His first… Read More
“Black Woman” by Erica Dawson
"Reading Erica Dawson's poems reminds me of the time a former race car driver took me on a crazy tour along the southern French coast's narrowest roads. It felt dangerous and exhilarating.… Read More
“Divine Intervention” by James Feichthaler
James Feichthaler is the co-founder of the poetry group "Dead Bards of Philadelphia," who meet every month at The Spiral Bookcase in the Manayunk section of the city to share their works.… Read More
“After Alaska” by Therése Halscheid
Therése Halscheid’s new book of poems is Frozen Latitudes (Press 53). Other collections include Uncommon Geography, Without Home, Powertalk, and a Greatest Hits chapbook award. Her poems and essays have appeared in… Read More
“Purgatory” by Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin was born in Philadelphia. She received her BA and MA from Radcliffe College. She has published numerous books of poetry, including And Short the Season: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2014);… Read More
“Dominion of the Parthians” by Ernest Hilbert
Ernest Hilbert received his doctorate in English Literature from Oxford University, where he edited the Oxford Quarterly and studied with Jon Stallworthy—biographer of Wilfred Owen and Louis MacNeice and editor of the… Read More
“Taking Chances” by Sharon Van Etten
SVE contacted me a few months back to see if I'd like to come up with some ideas for "Taking Chances," her first single off the new record. When I first heard… Read More
“Coast Redwood” by Amy Glynn
Amy Glynn Greacen is the author of A Modern Herbal (Measure Press, 2014). Her work also appears in Best American Poetry (2010, 2012), New England Review, Poetry Northwest, Southwest Review, The New… Read More
“Bric-a-Brac” by Dorothy Parker
Happy National Poetry Month, everyone. Every month is poetry month here at E-Verse, just so you know. … Read More
“Homeland” by Mercury Radio Theater, from the Static Sessions
Mercury Radio Theater, Punk Rock Exotica from Philly!… Read More
“The Dead House” by J. T. Barbarese
J.T. Barbarese has published five books of poems, his most recent, Sweet Spot (Northwestern University Press, 2012). His poems and translations have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Boulevard, Poetry, The New Yorker… Read More
Ring in the Spring with E-Verse Equinox, Featuring Frank Sherlock, Elizabeth Scanlon, and Rick Mullin
Featuring Frank Sherlock, author of Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated, Rick Mullin, author of Sonnets from the Voyage of the Beagle, and Elizabeth Scanlon, author of Odd Regard, hosted by Ernest… Read More
“Day in the Park” by Ernest Hilbert in the Best of the Asheville Poetry Review, 1994-2014 (with Audio!)
So nice to appear in such fine company, Borges and Boland, Niedecker and Oppen, Neruda and Patricia Smith, Gary Snyder and Alicia E Stallings, Billy Collins and Maryann Corbett, Michael Harper and… Read More
Check Out The Subtle Thread by John Tavano, Alfred Nicol, and Ann Harter
The Subtle Thread, a CD of nine original songs written by classical/flamenco guitarist John Tavano (music) and poet Alfred Nicol (lyrics), is finally available online (at CD Baby, iTunes, etc.). … Read More
“Hype” by A.R. Ammons
“Filled with sharp irony and passionate insight, the more than 100 poems in the collection span the career of one of the deans of contemporary poetry. . . . Ammons makes you… Read More
“No Doctor’s Today, Thank You” by Ogden Nash
Nash’s first published poems began to appear in the New Yorker around 1930. His first collection of poems, Hard Lines, was published in 1931. The book was a tremendous success; it went… Read More
“The White Ship” by Geoffrey Hill
Geoffrey Hill, the son of a police constable, was born in Worcestershire in 1932. He was educated at Bromsgrove County High School and at Keble College, Oxford. After teaching for more than… Read More
“Three Lucies” by Jason Zuzga
For the anatomical sensations he observes, in the tenderness of his sentences, in his insatiate curiosity, his experience of surrealism, we might consider Jason Zuzga the Oliver Sacks of poetry. His… Read More
Excerpt from It’s Time by Frank Sherlock
Frank Sherlock is the Poet Laureate of the City of Philadelphia, and was a Pew Fellow in the Arts for 2013. His books include Over Here; The City Real and Imagined; and… Read More
Music Alive Trailer for Stella Sung’s New Ballet “Fate of Place”
As may of you probably know, I've been working on a new opera with composer Stella Sung, commissioned by New Music USA and the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance, to premiere in May… Read More
“Inside Paul Muldoon” by Rick Mullin
Rick Mullin is a journalist and painter whose three latest books of poetry have been published by Dos Madres Press, Loveland, OH: the book-length poem Soutine, on the painter Chaïm … Read More