“Kissing” by Fleur Adcock
Fleur Adcock (b.1934) is a New Zealander by birth but spent part of her childhood in England, returning to live in London in 1963. She worked as a librarian until 1979 before… Read More
“Sea Urchins” by A.E. Stallings
A. E. Stallings has published two books of poetry, Archaic Smile (1999), which won the Richard Wilbur Award, and Hapax (Northwestern University Press, 2006), which won the Poet’s Prize and the American… Read More
“In a Dark Time” by Theodore Roethke
"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light." - Theodore Roethke … Read More
Recording of Ernest Hilbert Reading Three Poems at Swope Music Hall
Click on the image below to hear a high-quality audio recording of Ernest Hilbert reading three poems from Sixty Sonnets at Swope Music Hall, June 2009: "Prophetic Outlook," "Domestic Situation," and "Calavera… Read More
“Sunday Morning” by Michael Robbins
"Mr. Robbins’s heart is not lovely but beating a bit arrhythmically; not dark but lighted by a dangling disco ball; not deep but as shallow and alert as a tidal buoy facing… Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s “Failed Escapes” on The Buzz 2013, Apiary Magazine’s “Bold Mixtape with the Best of Philly Spoken Word and Music Backed Poetry”
Available on compact disc, high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire! Sorry, guys, no vinyl for this project. … Read More
“Placebo” by Erica Dawson
Erica Dawson's first collection of poems, Big-Eyed Afraid (Waywiser, 2007), won the 2006 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Southwest Review, Barrow Street, Blackbird, the 7th… Read More
What is the Function of this Product? “Side Effects,” a Short Film Directed by Lev Pakman and Written by Josh Brown
"An urgent meeting between the boss of a pharmaceutical company and one of his upstart young employees to discuss a troubling rumor about a new drug."… Read More
“Winter Ghazal” by Michael Shewmaker
Michael Shewmaker is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Yale Review, Southwest Review, Sewanee Theological Review, New Criterion, Measure, American Arts Quarterly,… Read More
Do the Clothes Make the Man? “One Man’s Loss,” Written and Directed by Philip Sansom
"A down and out vagabond's luck is dramatically altered when he treads on a piece of glass outside the apartment of an arguing couple."… Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Poem “Moose” in the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer
Ernest Hilbert's poem "Moose," which is part of a book in manuscript with the working title Caligulan, appeared in the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer, November 24th, section C2. … Read More
“Alone Time,” a Short Film by Rod Blackhurst
"A young woman, stressed by her busy and continually crowded New York City existence spontaneously retreats to a solitary lake deep in the Adirondacks."… Read More
“Memento” by Ashley Anna McHugh
Poet and editor Ashley Anna McHugh earned her BA at Ohio State University and pursued graduate work at Boston University and the University of Arkansas. Formally inflected, McHugh’s poetry uses rhyme and… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads from All of You on the Good Earth at the Bowery Poetry Club
On November 3rd, 2013, I read for the Carmine Street Metrics series at the newly redecorated Bowery Arts and Science building, formerly known as the Bowery Poetry Club. That's what we still… Read More
“Poetry is Barbarous” by Jason Guriel
Jason Guriel has a new book, The Pigheaded Soul: Essays and Reviews on Poetry and Culture, due out in November.… Read More
Dashcam Captures Terrifying Landslide in Taiwan
Watch the top of the mountain carefully in the first three seconds. You'll see the massive boulder come loose. Scary stuff. … Read More
Philly Poet Paul Siegell Slams Ticketmaster at the Lakeside Stride Festival
E-Verse's post punk poet paladin slams into the corporate giant in a Grapes-of-Wrath-style rant at the Lakeside Stride Festival in Denver. Go on, Paul! We all feel it. … Read More
“The Survey” by Joshua Beckman
Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and attended Hampshire College. An editor at Wave Books, he is the author of Things Are Happening (1998), winner of the APR/Honickman First Book… Read More
“Horace” 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
Ernest Hilbert Reads “Calavera for a Friend” at KGB Bar in New York City
Calculated to reflect the sixty minutes in an hour of heightened imaginative contemplation, the poems in Ernest Hilbert’s first book, Sixty Sonnets, contain memories of violence, historical episodes, humorous reflections, quiet despair,… Read More
“To Swim” by Kasey Jueds
Kasey Jueds’s poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, Manhattan Review, Salamander, Crab Orchard Review, Women’s Review of Books, and 5AM. She has been awarded residencies at… Read More
“End of Side A” by Adrian Matejka
“Just as we finally get a grip on the volatile Jack Johnson, Adrian Matejka, in his collection of poems, The Big Smoke, gives us a man wrestling with myth. He assays a… Read More
“4AM Cab Ride” by Ernest Hilbert
Ernest Hilbert has written some of the most elegant poems in American literature since the loss of Anthony Hecht. A fascinating blend of the Augustan and romantic (an Augustanism that flirts with… Read More
“Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown”: An Excellent Feature-Length Documentary on the Life and Works of H.P. Lovecraft
LOVECRAFT: FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN is a chronicle of the life, work and mind that created these weird tales as told by many of today's luminaries of dark fantasy including John Carpenter,… Read More
“At Sunrise Assisted Living” by Len Krisak
Len Krisak's most recent books are Afterimage (University of Evansville), The Complete Carmina of Catullus (Carcanet) and Ovid's "Ars Amatoria" and "Amores" (University of Pennsylvania Press).… Read More
Ernest Hilbert in New York, Sunday, November 3rd
I'll be reading for the Carmine Street Metrics series at Bowery Poetry Club with local favorite Rick Mullin, this Sunday, 5:45PM. Stop by, say hi, grab a drink, hear some poems. There… Read More
“At the Grave of Amy Clampitt” by Tom Disch
It is worth noting that this poem was composed and published while Amy Clampitt was still alive and kicking. … Read More
“Carpe Demon” by Lucie Brock-Broido
Lucie Brock-Broido was born in Pittsburgh, was educated at Johns Hopkins and Columbia University, and has taught at Bennington, Princeton, Harvard (where she was a Briggs-Copeland poet), and Columbia. She is the… Read More
Enough with All the Statues of White Men! Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Installation of Meredith Bergman’s Sculpture for the Boston Women’s Memorial
"Please join us for a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the unveiling of my largest sculpture project to date, the Boston Women's Memorial, on Sunday, October 27th from 1-3 pm on… Read More