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Ernest Hilbert

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Total Number of People Who Have Visited E-Verse Since Its First Blog Post on October 7th, 2008?

By On April 20, 2013

Total number of visitors to this site since October 7th, 2008? What? No. … Read More

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“It is Refreshing to Read Poetry that Doesn’t Have to Bullshit about What It Is”: Joshua Mensch Reviews Ernest Hilbert’s All of You on the Good Earth at B O D Y

By On April 20, 2013

"There is an essential kindness in Hilbert’s poems, a humanity of perspective that treats even its most abject subjects with humor and empathy, regardless of their foibles. But what makes Hilbert’s poetry… Read More

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The Red Silk Thread, an Opera by Stella Sung and Ernest Hilbert, at the University of Michigan Opera Studio Program

By On April 19, 2013

Here are some photographs from the workshop performances of my new opera with composer Stella Sung.… Read More

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“This Place Was A Shelter” from Necktie Films

By On April 18, 2013

Filmmaker Judith Redding made this video for genero.tv’s competition to create the official music video for Ólafur Arnalds’s song “This Place Was a Shelter,” from his latest album, For Now I Am… Read More

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Ernest Hilbert Interviewed by Marty Moss-Coane on Radio Times, WHYY

By On April 17, 2013

On Tuesday, April 16th, Marty Moss-Coane featured me as a guest on her live WHYY program Radio Times, syndicated nationally on NPR and available on XM and online. The radio ad for… Read More

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“Waking” by Henri Cole

By On April 16, 2013

There was a parade of humans, mostly naked: a bishop holding a crosier; a drinker with a protruding nose; a man fighting a bird, mounting it, pulling on its beard; a granny… Read More

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Ernest Hilbert Reads in Philadelphia with James Arthur, hosted by James Mancinelli of Moveable Beats

By On April 15, 2013

Moveable Beats Reading Series Ernest Hilbert Reads with James Arthur, hosted by James Mancinelli Good Karma Café 928 Pine St Philadelphia, PA 19107 (267) 519-8860 Sunday April 21st, 6PM FREE James Arthur’s… Read More

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“III Keepers, The Wife, September” from “Misericord” by Anna Evans

By On April 10, 2013

Anna M. Evans’ poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Harvard Review, Atlanta Review, Rattle, American Arts Quarterly, and 32 Poems. She gained her MFA from Bennington College, and is the… Read More

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“Portrait, Bust” by Susan de Sola

By On April 10, 2013

Susan de Sola's poems have appeared in The Hopkins Review, Measure, and Ambit. She is a David Reid Poetry Translation Prize winner. … Read More

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“Koi Pond in Slow Motion” by Alexander Long

By On April 9, 2013

Alexander Long is a poet, teacher, book reviewer, essayist, and musician. VIGIL, his first book of poems, was released in 2006 from the New Issues Press Poetry Series. Co-editor of A Condition… Read More

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“Never Run Away” by Kurt Vile

By On April 9, 2013

Single version of "Never Run Away" from Kurt Vile's album Wakin' On A Pretty Daze. … Read More

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“In Perpetual Spring” by By Amy Gerstler

By On April 8, 2013

Known for its wit and complexity, Amy Gerstler's poetry deals with themes such as redemption, suffering, and survival. Author of over a dozen poetry collections, two works of fiction, and various articles,… Read More

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“To Djuna Barnes, on Nightwood” by Anis Shivani

By On April 6, 2013

Anis Shivani is a fiction writer, poet, and critic, based in Houston, Texas. He is the author of the short story collection, Anatolia and Other Stories, published by Black Lawrence Press. Booklist… Read More

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Oh, The Metal Daze

By On April 6, 2013

Metal was a way of life, the ultimate outsider music. … Read More

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“Concerning Plunder” by James Brookes

By On April 5, 2013

“For its energy of expression, fearlessness and sheer verbal beauty, Sins of the Leopard is a magnificent debut.” - David Morley… Read More

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“Ohio” by Mark Rice

By On April 5, 2013

Mark Rice performing on the radio show Stay Tuned on February 12, 2010.… Read More

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“Baby’s Arms” by Kurt Vile

By On April 5, 2013

The Philly legend. … Read More

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“Rasmus Nielsen” by Nicholas Friedman

By On April 4, 2013

Nicholas Friedman is the recipient of a 2012 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. His newer work appears in The Dark Horse, The New Criterion, The New York Times, POETRY, Southwest Review, and other publications.… Read More

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“Women’s Poetry” by Daisy Fried

By On April 3, 2013

Daisy Fried is the author of three books of poems, Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013), My Brother is Getting Arrested Again (Pitt, 2006), a finalist for the… Read More

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A Guide to How Shakespeare’s Characters Kick the Bucket

By On April 3, 2013

Original concept by Cam Magee. Design by Caitlin S. Griffin. … Read More

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“Winds” from “Bucolics” by W.H. Auden

By On April 2, 2013

One of many stunners from Auden's book Shield of Achilles. … Read More

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“At Dawn: Eurydice” by Daniel Evans Pritchard

By On April 1, 2013

Daniel Evans Pritchard is a poet and essayist living in Boston. He is marketing and publicity director of Boston Review, publisher of The Critical Flame, and organizer of the bimonthly U35 Reading… Read More

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“Faux King in the Parking Lot” by Lynn Levin

By On March 30, 2013

Lynn Levin’s newest collection of poems is Miss Plastique (Ragged Sky Press, 2013). A poet, writer, and translator, Lynn Levin is also the author of three previous collections of poems: Fair Creatures… Read More

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“Prelude: Dusk in the Ruins” by Ernest Hilbert

By On March 29, 2013

“‘Genes clarify the genius and the freak / And prove we descend from a feral band,’ Ernest Hilbert writes in ‘Outsider Art,’ and there is no mistaking the ‘feral’ appetite and… Read More

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“Love To Get Used” by Matt Pond

By On March 28, 2013

Video by Fortune Films USA (http://fortunefilmsusa.com/)… Read More

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“Sailing the Mullica River (Great Bay Estuary) 1978” by Ernest Hilbert

By On March 27, 2013

“Hilbert is one of our best rhymers since Robert Frost, and his poems have been compared by superb poets to those of John Berryman and Robert Lowell. We haven’t had a… Read More

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“Shanghai Cigarettes” by Caitlin Rose

By On March 25, 2013

Directed, shot and edited by Seth Graves. Studio footage shot by Kevin Doyle.… Read More

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“The Socialites” by Dirty Projectors

By On March 25, 2013

A music video taken from the short film Hi Custodian.… Read More

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“Bloodletting” by Alex Dimitrov

By On March 25, 2013

Alex Dimitrov's first book of poems, Begging for It, was published this March by Four Way Books. His poems have been published in the Yale Review, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Slate,… Read More

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“Where?” by Heinrich Heine, translated from the German by Terese Coe

By On March 25, 2013

Terese Coe's poems and translations have appeared in Threepenny Review, The TLS, Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Stinging Fly, Agenda, The Cincinnati Review, New American Writing, Tar River Poetry, and Alaska Quarterly… Read More