“Goddess” by Crime & The City Solution
Pre-Order Now! Digital: smarturl.it/CCSAmericanTwilight / CD: smarturl.it/AmericanTwilightCD Ltd Red Vinyl: http://bit.ly/12vEl5J Visuals by Danielle de Picciotto. After a two decade hiatus, the legendary Crime & The City Solution return with a new incarnation based in a new… Read More
Six Acre Lake is on the Way to Blow You Out of the Water!
The two-man big-sound battleship Six Acre Lake is slipping from its berth and steaming west from Philadelphia to unleash broadsides on the eardrums of local music fans. You've gotta see these guys… Read More
“Sugar on the Floor” by East Coastamite Featuring PJ Brown
East Coastamite, featuring Andrew Lannutti on guitar, Dave Coulson on organ, Tom McKernan on bass, and Mark Shewchuk on drums, welcomes soul singer PJ Brown to the stage at Ortlieb's Lounge in… Read More
“Not My Leg” by David Rothman
David J. Rothman is Director of the Poetry Concentration in the MFA at Western State Colorado University, and also teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Denver University, and Lighthouse Writers… Read More
“Anchors” by Anna Evans
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
“Coming Down” by Dum Dum Girls
Directed by Malia James http://www.maliajames.com… Read More
“A Crowded Trolley Car” by Elinor Wylie
Extravagantly praised in her lifetime, the poet and novelist Elinor Wylie suffered a posthumous reversal in her reputation but has experienced something of a revival of interest among feminist critics since the… Read More
“Big Game” by Brenda Shaughnessy
Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of two books of poetry. The most recent, Human Dark with Sugar, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critic’s Circle Award and winner of the… Read More
Elegies & Laments Available for Digital Download
Over the next few weeks, a variety of digital download services will make my new spoken world album Elegies & Laments available for purchase. You may buy the album for $5 (US)… Read More
“Slugs” by Deryn Rees-Jones
Deryn Rees-Jones was born in Liverpool in 1968. She read English for her undergraduate and Masters degrees at the University of Wales, Bangor. Her anthology Modern Women Poets (Bloodaxe, 2005) was widely… Read More
“The Place Where Nobody Knows I Go” by The Shilohs
Directed by Ian Perlman Filmed by Ian Perlman Coloured by Mark Olivan Starring Kelsea Dakota The Shilohs' "So Wild" available February 5th, 2013 via Light Organ Records… Read More
“Ray’s Strut” by East Coastamite
East Coastamite, featuring Andrew Lannutti on guitar, Dave Coulson on organ, Tom McKernan on bass, and Mark Shewchuk on drums, perform their song, "Ray's Strut", at Ortlieb's Lounge on July 27th, 2012.… Read More
Listen to a Segment of the “Legendary Misbehavior” Section of Elegies & Laments on Vinyl
This is a short video/sound clip from the limited-edition white vinyl series of Ernest Hilbert's album Elegies & Laments. … Read More
“Hens” by Henri Cole
"In my own poems, I have grown accustomed to astringency; there is no longer any compulsion to hide or temper the truth, as there was when I was setting out twenty years… Read More
Copies of Elegies & Laments on Vinyl are Landing All Over the World
Have a look at some of the copies that have turned up on their very own turntables. These are the limited-edition 1/100 on white vinyl and signed by members of the project.… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads at the Legendary Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City
Hope to see you there!… Read More
“Heart Sweats” by Japandroids
Japandroids perform "Heart Sweats" live in-studio at KEXP 90.3FM in Seattle. Recorded 6/16/09. www.kexp.org… Read More
Poetry and Music in Bed Together Again: Michael Zapruder’s New Album Pink Thunder
"Zapruder lets the songs wander, as if he's creating a melodic new method of storytelling... He builds songs in a Jon Brian-esque style, with Elliot Smith-like sensitivity and raw ache in his… Read More
“29th July: Interior” by Sean Borodale
"Sean Borodale is without doubt the most exciting new poet I have read since Alice Oswald. His Bee Journal raises the bar for us all and announces a thrilling new voice in… Read More
“A Spoken Word Album? You’re Joking, Right?”
No, we're not joking! Really. Local Philadelphia rock veterans Marc Hildenberger and Dave Young recorded Ernest Hilbert reading sixteen poems they selected from his first book, Sixty Sonnets, and then, being utterly… Read More
“Charles Baudelaire: ‘The Albatross'” 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
Ernest Hilbert’s New Book All of You on the Good Earth Now Available!
All of You on the Good Earth, Ernest Hilbert's second full-length collection of poetry, is now available from Amazon, Amazon UK, Barnes and Noble, Powell's Books, The Book Depository, Tower Books, BookADDA… Read More
“At the 100th Anniversary of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association at the Royal Geographical Society” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of Southwest Review
Begun in 1915 and located on the campus of Southern Methodist University, Southwest Review is the third oldest, continuously published literary quarterly in the United States. Selections from Southwest Review have been… Read More
“The Museum of Obsolescence” by Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith is the author of three books of poetry: The Body's Question (2003), which won the Cave Canem prize for the best first book by an African-American poet; Duende (2007),… Read More
Upcoming Poetry Readings at Penn Book Center on University of Pennsylvania Campus
Support local bookstores! Support local poets! … Read More
“St Brenhilda on Sula Sgeir” by David Wheatley
David Wheatley’s latest poetry collection is A Nest on the Waves (Gallery Press). His poem Air Street Fugue appears in the downloadable version of The Burning Bush 2.… Read More
“Antler” by John Clegg
John Clegg grew up in Cambridge and currently lives in Durham, where he is completing a PhD on the Eastern European influence in contemporary poetry. A selection of his poetry was included… Read More
“The Envelope, Please” by Ernest Hilbert
"The Envelope, Please" first appeared in BEET magazine and appears in Ernest Hilbert's new collection All of You on the Good Earth. … Read More
“Our Sorrows” by Julia Holter
Directed by Naomi Yang of Galaxie 500 and Damon & Naomi, the video for "Our Sorrows" finds Julia Holter winding a miles-long string maze. From the album Ekstasis. ©2012 RVNG Intl. www.igetrvng.com… Read More
“Andy Kaufman” by Exploding World
Single from Exploding World's first full length album. … Read More