“I’m Not Neurasthenic About the Lights”: An Evening of Poetry with Robert Lowell: Classic Black and White Television Broadcast
"Robert Lowell was one of the three or four greatest American poets of the twentieth century . . . his real peers are the classics of American literature: Melville and Whitman, Eliot… Read More
“The Deserted Village” by Oliver Goldsmith
"Reading Oliver Goldsmith's poem of 1770, The Deserted Village, today is dizzying. Goldsmith paints a picture of ruin resulting from the accumulation of wealth in a few hands: desolation and dispossession or… Read More
“Daylilies” by Teresa Leo
Teresa Leo is the author of two books of poetry, Bloom in Reverse (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014) and The Halo Rule (Elixir Press, 2008), winner of the Elixir Press Editors’ Prize.… Read More
“X” by Christine Yurick
Christine Yurick’s poems have appeared in Barbaric Yawp, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Autumn Sky, and are forthcoming in American Arts Quarterly and Angle. She is the founding editor of Think Journal and is… Read More
Jack Kerouac Reads from On the Road on The Steve Allen Show in 1959
“So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that… Read More
“Actors” by Terese Coe
Terese Coe’s poems and translations have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Poetry Review, The TLS, The Cincinnati Review, New American Writing, Poetry, Ploughshares, Agenda, Tar River Poetry, Smartish Pace, New Walk Magazine,… Read More
“At the Fish Market” by Zachary Bos
Boston poet and critic Zachary Bos has appeared in Basilica Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Black Herald, Free Verse, Fulcrum, Literary Imagination, Moria, Psychic Meatloaf, Sanctuary, Spare Change News, the bleed, The Christian… Read More
“Seasons in the Sun” by Terry Jacks
Since we're pelted yet again with icy rain on the east coast, I think Terry Jack's "Seasons in the Sun" is in order. As a boy, I loved this song and was… Read More
“Mother Worries” by Shane Allison
Shane Allison's poems and stories have appeared in juked, Mississippi Review, New Delta Review, Oyster Boy Review, Velvet Mafia, Suspect Thoughts, Plum Ruby Review, Saints and Sinners, and Wild and Willing.… Read More
“After a Scientific Theory of Love” by Elizabeth Scanlon
Elizabeth Scanlon is an editor of The American Poetry Review. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, including Boston Review, Colorado Review, and Ploughshares, and in the anthologies Starting Today: Poems… Read More
Sarah Arvio and Ernest Hilbert at Penn Book Center
Join us for a tranquil winter Saturday afternoon of new poetry with Sarah Arvio, author of Night Thoughts (Knopf, 2013) and Ernest Hilbert, author of All of You on the Good Earth… Read More
“The Truth” by Dr. Dog
"As self-reinventions go, it doesn’t get much more extensive than Dr. Dog’s route on this year’s B-Room. For their seventh full-length, the band took to Clifton Heights to build up a new… Read More
Two Poems by Sarah Arvio
Sarah Arvio’s latest book is Night Thoughts: 70 Dream Poems & Notes from an Analysis, a hybrid work made up of poetry, essay, and memoir, published by Alfred A. Knopf. Her earlier… Read More
“Dear Lorine:” A.E. Clark
A.E. Clark received her B.A. from Beloit College and her M.F.A in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her poems and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in… Read More
“Exterminator” 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
“The God Fit” by Anne Carson, from “The Truth About God”
Anne Carson is a professor of Classics as well as a poet, essayist and translator. “In the small world of people who keep up with contemporary poetry,” wrote Daphne Merkin in the… Read More
“The Men in Blue” by Luke Stromberg
Luke Stromberg's work has appeared in several literary journals and has also been featured on multiple occasions in The Philadelphia Inquirer. He lives in Upper Darby, PA and works as an adjunct… Read More
“Romanticize Me” by Pissed Jeans
"Age and four full-lengths haven't mellowed Pissed Jeans; they can still unleash a blare that will exfoliate your cochlea. Formed in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Pissed Jeans released Shallow, their first album, in 2005.… Read More
“I Look for Love in Loss” by G.M. Palmer
G.M. Palmer lives with his wife and daughters in North Florida. His poetry and criticism can be found at E-Verse Radio, The Critical Flame, Contemporary Poetry Review, Anti-, Fried Chicken and Coffee,… Read More
“Samuel Pepys” by Geoffrey Nutter
Geoffrey Nutter was born in Sacramento, and attended San Francisco State University and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He is the author of The Rose of January (Wave Books, 2013), Christopher Sunset (Wave… Read More
“Daytrips and Daydreams” by Warren Longmire
Warren Longmire is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of the Excelano Project Spoken Word Collective. When not building games and tuning websites, he can be found preforming at… Read More
“Merry Fucking Sestina” by Leonard Gontarek
Philadelphia poet Leonard Gontarek’s poetry collections include Déjà Vu Diner (2006) and St. Genevieve Watching Over Paris (1984). His poems have also been featured in Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual… Read More
“Telescope,” a Sci-Fi Short Directed by Collin Davis and Matt Litwiller
"The year is 2183. Earth is dead. With all evidence of organic life lost, a cosmic archaeologist travels faster than light into deep space to capture images of the once vibrant planet. When… Read More
“Et in Arcadia Ego” by James Matthew Wilson
James Matthew Wilson is the author of Four Verse Letters (Steubenville UP, 2010), a chapbook of poems, and Timothy Steele: A Critical Introduction (Story Line Press, 2012). His poems, essays, and… Read More
“RECORD/PLAY,” A Short Film by Jesse Atlas
"War, fate, and a broken Walkman transcend space and time in this sci-fi love story."… Read More
Incredible Sestinas Anthology Tour Kick-Off Reading in Philadelphia
Tonight, Wednesday January 15th, we kick off The Incredible Sestinas Anthology national tour with a bang right here in the cradle of liberty. Come one, come all, and bring a sestina to… Read More
“The Exposed Nest” by Robert Frost
"Frost was the first American who could be honestly reckoned a master-poet by world standards." - Robert Graves… Read More
“Status Update”: A Short Film Directed by Daniel Reisinger
Starring Adam Dunn, Kellie Clarke, Chum Ehelopela. Written by Dantie Van Der Merwe, David Fraser, Adam Dunn and Dan Reisinger.… Read More
“The Golden Shovel” by Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1971. Lighthead, his most recent poetry collection, won the 2010 National Book Award. His third collection, Wind in a Box (Pengiuin 2006), was… Read More