Ernest Hilbert and Beth Greenberg in the Valley
Here's a nice little article about New York-based opera director Beth Greenberg at the Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado and her work with me, including her visit to my graduate course… Read More
“The Grocery Bouquet” by Isabella Gardner
Born in Newton, Massachusetts, poet and actress Isabella Gardner was the cousin of poet Robert Lowell and the great-niece of art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner. Educated at the Foxcroft School in Virginia,… Read More
“Going to Bed” by Eric Thomas Norris
Eric Norris is the author of 3 books: Terence, Nocturnal Omissions—with Gavin Geoffrey Dillard, and Cock Sucking (On Mars). He is a founding editor of the online poetry journal Kin (wearekin.org). Eric… Read More
“Summer” by John Clare
Come we to the summer, to the summer we will come, For the woods are full of bluebells and the hedges full of bloom, And the crow is on the oak a-building… Read More
“cruel, cruel summer” by D.A. Powell
"Born in Albany, Georgia, D.A. Powell received an MA at Sonoma State University and an MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His first three collections of poetry, Tea, (1998), Lunch (2000), and… Read More
“Pilgrim’s Progress” by David Barber
David Barber is the author of two collections of poems published by Northwestern University Press: Wonder Cabinet (2006) and The Spirit Level (1995), the winner of the Terrence Des Pres Prize. He… Read More
“Seen From Space” April Lindner
April Lindner is the author of two poetry collections, This Bed Our Bodies Shaped (Able Muse) and Skin, winner of the Walt MacDonald First Book Prize from Texas Tech University Press. … Read More
“Sugar Dada” by J. Allyn Rosser
J. Allyn Rosser teaches at Ohio University and is the author of Foiled Again. She teaches at Ohio University, where she edits New Ohio Review.… Read More
“Psalm” by Joshua Mehigan
"Joshua Mehigan’s Accepting the Disaster is the rare new book of poetry that is entirely alive, entirely aloft. No allowances have to be made for these darkly lucid, sad, and humane poems;… Read More
“Carrion Birds Wheeling Overhead”: New E-Verse Drink for the Summer: Introducing, the Black Sabbath
On my recent trek through Scotland I found myself seated in the back room of a small pub in the northeastern village of Huntly, in Aberdeenshire. I learned of the latest drink… Read More
“Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi” by Garrett Hongo
Garrett Hongo was born in Volcano, Hawai‘i, lived as a child in Kahuku on O‘ahu, and grew up thereafter in Los Angeles. He is the author of two previous collections of poetry,… Read More
“Summer” by Lucien Stryk
A translator and influential practitioner of Zen poetics, Lucien Stryk was born in Kolo, Poland, in 1924. He moved to Chicago with his family in 1927 and studied at Indiana University; the… Read More
“Barrier Island” by J.S. Renau
J. S. Renau is a native of Charleston, S.C. For 15 years, Mr. Renau lived in New York and worked as a marketing consultant and speechwriter. In 2012, he relocated to rural… Read More
“Sonnet XXXVI” by Ted Berrigan
“The Sonnets are an enduring benchmark in mid-20th-century American poetics. Intimate, endlessly inventive, they make an extraordinary manifest of that time and all its habits of person and place. They are without… Read More
“Going Upstairs to Bed” by Stephen Berg
Stephen Berg was the founder of The American Poetry Review and the author of many collections of poetry and translations, including Halo, Rimbaud: Versions and Inventions, The Elegy on Hats, and 58… Read More
“Summer Holiday” by Wild Nothing
Wild Nothing performs "Summer Holiday" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded 3/11/11.… Read More
“My Life as One of King Charles II’s Mistresses” by Anna Evans
"Historical poetry often makes me shudder, being either narrowly polemical or a means of piggybacking on someone else's life when one's own creativity is wanting. Anna M. Evans's Sisters and Courtesans, in… Read More
Nate Kostar with Justin “J-Boogie” Hatchter
Last Friday I had the pleasure to read at the Philadelphia's storied Sketch Club, the oldest continually operating arts club in the country, for Kelly McQuain and Dawn Manning's PoetDelphia series. After my… Read More
“The Turtle” by Nathaniel Kostar
Nathaniel Kostar is a graduate of Rutgers University and currently pursuing his MFA at The University of New Orleans Low-Residency program. He will read with Ernest Hilbert tonight at the Sketch Club… Read More
“Alien Nation of Affections (or, The Whoa That is in Marriage)” by Don Share
Don Share became the editor of Poetry in 2013. His books of poetry are Wishbone (2012), Squandermania (2007), and Union (2013, 2002). He is the co-editor of The Open Door: 100 Poems,… Read More
Celebrate Bloomsday from Your Desk with New Dublin Press’s Recording of Joyce’s Masterpiece, Ulysses
Today is June 16th, the day Joyce's famous character Leopold Bloom wanders the streets of Dublin, encountering all manner of trouble and triumph as the modern mock heroic variation on Homer's Odysseus.… Read More
“Strung” by Ernest Hilbert (With Audio)
Ernest Hilbert is the author of two collections of poetry, Sixty Sonnets and All of You on the Good Earth, as well as a spoken word album recorded with rock band and… Read More
Excerpt from the Epic, Book-Length Poem Heimat by Quincy R. Lehr
Quincy R. Lehr is the author of several collections, as well as the imminently forthcoming Heimat. He is the associate editor of The Raintown Review, and he lives in Brooklyn, where he… Read More
Listen to Some Students Read Ernest Hilbert’s “Domestic Situation” for the National Poetry Out Loud Competition
Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest was created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, administered in partnership with the State Arts Agencies of all 50 states, the… Read More
“Night Moth” by George Witte
George Witte's poems have appeared in numerous journals and reprinted in the Best American Poets 2007 and other anthologies. He received the Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry magazine and a fellowship from… Read More
Two Poems from Birds on the Kiswar Tree by Odi Gonzales
BIRDS ON THE KISWAR TREE by Peruvian Andean poet Odi Gonzales presents poems that sing in the voices of native birds and speak through the devout, but subversive, Quechua artists of Peru’s… Read More
“How it Ends” by Rick Mullin
Rick Mullin's poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Arts Quarterly, The Raintown Review, Unsplendid, Méasŭre, The Flea, and Ep;phany. He is the author of Aquinas Flinched (Exot Books,… Read More
“Ornamental Waters” by Kit Wright
Poet and children's author Kit Wright was born in 1944 and educated at Oxford University.… Read More
“Swing Shift Blues” by Alan Dugan
"A plain stodgy no-nonsense American prose, like that of your nearest bartender." - X.J. Kennedy… Read More