Ernest Hilbert at Large
My publisher has always been attentive to developments, such as they are, in my writing career, such as it is, and kindly shares that information publicly in a most professional manner. Here… Read More
“Café Future” by David Yezzi
David Yezzi’s poetry collections include Azores (2008) and The Hidden Model (2003), and his criticism and poetry have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and Best… Read More
“Introduction” by John Ashbery
“Since the death of Wallace Stevens in 1955, we have been in the Age of Ashbery.” - Harold Bloom… Read More
“Coin” the Video Game, No, Animated Movie of a Video Game!
Thanks to Andrew for sending this cool animated short our way. … Read More
“1st September 1939” by Joseph Brodsky, Translated by Glyn Maxwell
"The day was called September the First."… Read More
“Delirium in Vera Cruz” by Malcolm Lowry
"Although his literary reputation rests primarily on his novels, Malcolm Lowry (1909-57) considered himself to be a poet, and he composed an extensive poetic canon. No reliable edition of Lowry's poetry currently… Read More
“Atephilia” by Jessica Piazza
Jessica Piazza is the author of two poetry collections: Interrobang (Red Hen Press, 2013) and the chapbook This is not a sky (Black Lawrence Press, 2014). She is a co-founder of Bat… Read More
“Rule Book” by Suzanne Parker
Suzanne Parker is a winner of the Kinereth Gensler Book Award from Alice James Books for her poetry collection, Viral which has been nominated as a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award… Read More
Three Sonnets by Ben Mazer
Ben Mazer's most recent collection of poems is New Poems (Pen & Anvil). He is the Editor of the Battersea Review.… Read More
“Entertainment Destination” by Ernest Hilbert
The Raintown Review is a perfect-bound, semi-annual journal. We have published the works of established and up-and-coming writers such as Dick Allen, Jared Carter, Patrick Chapman, Jehanne Dubrow, Annie Finch, Kevin Higgins,… Read More
“You’ve Just Got To Face the Ugly Realities Of It”: Ernest Hilbert Interviewed by Ken Michaels on NPR-Affiliate WDIY 80.1
Last April, radio personality Ken Michaels interviewed me for his arts program "Musings" on NPR-Affiliate WDIY 80.1FM Allentown/Bethlehem. We talked about All of You on the Good Earth, influences, inspirations, music, and… Read More
“Clown” by Chelsey Minnis
Chelsey Minnis was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in Denver, Colorado. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Iowa Writer's workshop. She is the author of Zirconia… Read More
“Influence”: A New Film about Autism from Michael and Meredith Bergman
"The last time I directed a movie was in 2006, two years before our son Dan pierced his autism by learning to communicate by spelling. Our world was unimaginably different then. This… Read More
“I Disapprove. A Writer is a Maker not a Man of Action”: A Documentary About the Life, Loves, and Ideas of W. H. Auden
We get to see Auden on a television talk show. Worth a watch. Produced and Directed by Susanna White.… Read More
Nhu Vuong Reads Ernest Hilbert’s “Domestic Situation” for Poetry Out Loud
Check out a video of one of the Poetry Out Loud contestants performing Ernest Hilbert's poem "Domestic Situation."… Read More
Mercury Radio Theater’s “I Don’t Owe You No More” on the Static Sessions
Mercury Radio Theater is Philadelphia's conceptual rockabilly/punk monster/sci fi with a zydeco twist band (or, in their more concise appellation, "Punk Rock Exotica"). With three LPs to date, the band is known… Read More
Right, so Beth Gibbons from Portishead Sings Black Sabbath’s Eponymous Track “Black Sabbath” Backed by British Metal Band Gonga
So, you should check it out. She nails it. … Read More
Elegies & Laments in the Raintown Review
The editors of Raintown Review have kindly granted me permission to reproduce online a review of my album Elegies & Laments, recorded for Pub Can Records with the band Legendary Misbehavior, featuring… Read More
“Save Earth” by Ernest Hilbert
The Raintown Review is a perfect-bound, semi-annual journal. We have published the works of established and up-and-coming writers such as Dick Allen, Jared Carter, Patrick Chapman, Jehanne Dubrow, Annie Finch, Kevin Higgins,… Read More
“Theophobia” by Jessica Piazza
Jessica Piazza is the author of two poetry collections: Interrobang (Red Hen Press, 2013) and the chapbook This is not a sky (Black Lawrence Press, 2014). She is a co-founder of Bat… Read More
“Colmcille on Exile” by Paul Muldoon
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts… Read More
“Morning Song of Senlin” by Conrad Aiken
"Few poets can have made greater efforts or faced more reasonably deprivation of recognition. [Aiken's] truly prodigious output met with curiously intermittent appreciation, periods of long neglect being taken with unflagging endurance… Read More
“The Snowman” 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
“It Would Have Meant Death, Or At Least a Flogging”: Watch the Rehearsals and Preparations for the Premiere of Stella Sung’s Opera Red Silk Thread: An Epic Tale of Marco Polo after a Libretto by Ernest Hilbert
This series of short videos includes brief interviews with composer Stella Sung and director Beth Greenberg, along with the singers, choreographer, dancers, costume designer, digital effects team, and members of the chorus.… Read More
Hair. Not the Musical. Your Hair. And Some Facts You Ought to Know, Such As . . .
"In Renaissance Venice, women dyed their hair blonde using horse urine."… Read More
“Coda” by Basil Bunting
Though his major poems were not written until late in life, and despite the sporadic composition of his poetry, Basil Bunting wrote some of the most enduring verse of the twentieth century.… Read More
“I Can Picture Hilbert in a Drunken Brawl with Christopher Marlowe. I Mean this as a Compliment”: All of You on the Good Earth Reviewed in The New Criterion
The April poetry issue of The New Criterion is now available: Bruce Bawer discusses Marianne Moore's life and art, William Logan considers Emily Dickinson's envelope poems, and David Yezzi addresses the musicality… Read More
If You Text While You Drive, Stop. Just Stop It. Now. Werner Herzog Agrees.
"There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving—or texting at all—but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence… Read More
“The Novelist” by W.H. Auden
They can amaze us like a thunderstorm . . .… Read More
“JUNKYARD” a Short Animated Film by Hisko Hulsing
"A man is robbed and stabbed on a metro train. As he lays dying, a friendship from his youth flashes before his eyes."… Read More