“The Common Life” by W.H. Auden
“Auden is the most inclusive poet of the twentieth century, its most technically skilled, and its most truthful.” - Edward Mendelson… Read More
“Toddler Beneath a Jacaranda” by Kevin Durkin
Kevin Durkin attended schools in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Germany before earning his degree in English literature from Princeton University. He has taught English in Singapore, Kitakyushu (Japan), New York City, and… Read More
Waxahatchee Unplugged at the Sunday Sessions Berlin
"Alabama native Katie Crutchfield—twin sister of Swearin's Allison Crutchfield—writes in the liner notes of American Weekend, her piercing debut as Waxahatchee. Crutchfield builds her songs from humble materials—usually just an acoustic guitar… Read More
Ernest Hilbert at Poets House to Celebrate The Dark Horse’s 20th Anniversary
Hey, New Yorkers, join us at Poets House to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the legendary literary magazine The Dark Horse, hosted by editor and poet Gerry Cambridge. The New York event… Read More
“The Gelding” by Ernest Hilbert (with Audio)
"Tough-minded and precise, Ernest Hilbert’s lyrics, like his old mirror left out at the curb, turn an unflinching gaze on pieces of inner and outer landscapes we often push to the periphery.… Read More
“Bad Newz” by Stephen Burt
Breezily contemporary in feel, yet deeply lyrical in quality and effect. . . . Belmont is an outstanding collection at once thoughtful and witty, meditative but rapid-fire, a domestically rooted yet lyrically… Read More
“Little League” Kevin Durkin
Kevin Durkin attended schools in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Germany before earning his degree in English literature from Princeton University. He has taught English in Singapore, Kitakyushu (Japan), New York City, and… Read More
Ernest Hilbert with Brian Heston and Therese Halcheid
A Sunday Evening of Poetry with Ernest Hilbert, Brian Heston, and Therese Halchied Sunday, May 24, 7:30PM Tattooed Mom… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads with Anna Evans in Princeton
An Evening of New Poetry with Ernest Hilbert and Anna Evans Free and open to the public Monday, May 11th, 7:30PM Princeton Public Library 65 Witherspoon St Princeton, New Jersey 08542 (609)… Read More
“L’An Trentiesme de Mon Eage” by Archibald MacLeish
"[Archibald MacLeish] is one of the few American poets to have a sound of his own." -- James Dickey… Read More
“Black Woman” by Erica Dawson
"Reading Erica Dawson's poems reminds me of the time a former race car driver took me on a crazy tour along the southern French coast's narrowest roads. It felt dangerous and exhilarating.… Read More
“Dominion of the Parthians” by Ernest Hilbert
Ernest Hilbert received his doctorate in English Literature from Oxford University, where he edited the Oxford Quarterly and studied with Jon Stallworthy—biographer of Wilfred Owen and Louis MacNeice and editor of the… Read More
“Coast Redwood” by Amy Glynn
Amy Glynn Greacen is the author of A Modern Herbal (Measure Press, 2014). Her work also appears in Best American Poetry (2010, 2012), New England Review, Poetry Northwest, Southwest Review, The New… Read More
“Addiction to an Old Mattress” by Rosemary Tonks
"Rosemary Tonks' imagery has a daring for which it's hard to find a parallel in British poetry" - John Hartley Williams… Read More
“Bric-a-Brac” by Dorothy Parker
Happy National Poetry Month, everyone. Every month is poetry month here at E-Verse, just so you know. … Read More
“Homeland” by Mercury Radio Theater, from the Static Sessions
Mercury Radio Theater, Punk Rock Exotica from Philly!… Read More
“The School Custodian on the Birds and the Bees” by Kevin Cutrer
Kevin Cutrer, born and raised in southeast Louisiana, lives in Boston. His work has appeared in The Hudson Review, The Dark Horse, Cimarron Review, The Raintown Review, Kin, Unsplendid, and elsewhere. He… Read More
Ring in the Spring with E-Verse Equinox, Featuring Frank Sherlock, Elizabeth Scanlon, and Rick Mullin
Featuring Frank Sherlock, author of Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated, Rick Mullin, author of Sonnets from the Voyage of the Beagle, and Elizabeth Scanlon, author of Odd Regard, hosted by Ernest… Read More
“Day in the Park” by Ernest Hilbert in the Best of the Asheville Poetry Review, 1994-2014 (with Audio!)
So nice to appear in such fine company, Borges and Boland, Niedecker and Oppen, Neruda and Patricia Smith, Gary Snyder and Alicia E Stallings, Billy Collins and Maryann Corbett, Michael Harper and… Read More
In Search of Steve Ditko (2007)
A BBC Four documentary about comic artist Steve Ditko, the co-creator of Spiderman and Doctor Strange. Features interviews with Stan Lee, Alan Moore, and Neil Gaiman. … Read More
Excerpt from It’s Time by Frank Sherlock
Frank Sherlock is the Poet Laureate of the City of Philadelphia, and was a Pew Fellow in the Arts for 2013. His books include Over Here; The City Real and Imagined; and… Read More
Philip Levine at the NYS Writers Institute in 1996
The former Poet Laureate of the United States (2011-2012) Philip Levine died this weekend at the age of 87. Levine was best known for his poems about the American working class and… Read More
“Inside Paul Muldoon” by Rick Mullin
Rick Mullin is a journalist and painter whose three latest books of poetry have been published by Dos Madres Press, Loveland, OH: the book-length poem Soutine, on the painter Chaïm … Read More
“In Retrospect” by Elizabeth Scanlon
Elizabeth Scanlon is the Editor of The American Poetry Review and teaches at The University of the Arts. Her chapbook Odd Regard was published by ixnay press in 2013 and her… Read More
“On Leaving an Old Mirror Out at the Curb” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of the Hopkins Review
The Hopkins Review has been called a "postmodern blend of intellectual heft and Vaudeville" by Susan McCallum-Smith of WYPR and Urbanite magazine. Contributors include literary and scholarly heavyweights such as Max Apple,… Read More
“Meteor” by Susan Delaney Spear
Susan Spear is the managing editor of Think, a journal of formal poetry, book reviews, and criticism housed at Western Colorado State University. She has published poems in Academic Questions, The Lyric,… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads with Lynn Levin and Laura Spagnoli
Wednesday, January 21st, 2015, 7PM Upstairs at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA 19102, 215-928-8118… Read More
“Portrait of a Stranger in Mt. Moriah Cemetery” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of the Battersea Review
The new issue of The Battersea Review is packed with all sorts of great things: Robert Archambeau reviews T.S. Eliot's Letters Vol. I; Saskia Hamilton reviews T.S. Eliot's Letters Vol. II;… Read More
“Mineral Point” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of Yale Review
Like Yale’s schools of music, drama, and architecture, like its libraries and art galleries, The Yale Review has helped give the University its leading place in American education. In a land of… Read More
“Mingus at The Showplace” by William Matthews
"A deliciously irreverent, classically minded poet . . . One of the wittiest and most heartbreaking American poets in the second half of the twentieth century." - Edward Hirsch… Read More