Concert Poster for the New Opera The Red Silk Thread: An Epic Tale of Marco Polo by Stella Sung with Libretto by Ernest Hilbert
The production team just sent the official poster for the new opera The Red Silk Thread: An Epic Tale of Marco Polo by Stella Sung. … Read More
“The Peacock at Alderton” by Geoffrey Hill
Geoffrey Hill, the son of a police constable, was born in Worcestershire in 1932. He was educated at Bromsgrove County High School and at Keble College, Oxford. After teaching for more than… Read More
“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
“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
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
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
“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 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“God Forbid You Should Follow Your Dreams”: Check Out the Rock Film Losers Take All
"Losers Take All: A hapless but talented mid-1980s indie rock band tries their hardest to blow a record deal, a tour, and their friendship, but can’t even manage to succeed at failure."… Read More
“Head On (Hold On To Your Heart)” by Man Man
"Man Man is a fearlessly unique band from Philadelphia. The group's fifth full length album On Oni Pond features an arresting reconstruction of the group's visionary sound, stripped to its core and… Read More
Another Year Gone, One Step Closer to Death, or, Books Read or Reread in 2013
Another year in books. What were yours this year? … Read More
“Necronomica”: A Short Black Metal Film by Kyle Bogart
"After the departure of friend and drummer Mortimus, Black Metal bandmates Borknarg and Absu begin to lose hope that NECRONOMICA will ever achieve its place as the most evil band in the… Read More
Erica Dawson Reads at the Bowery Poetry Club
In The Small Blades Hurt, Erica Dawson picks up where her debut collection, Big-Eyed Afraid, leaves off: "The world's outside. I'm in." She moves from her border state Maryland to the true… Read More
OK, So It’s a First Edition. So What? How Many Editions Could There Be? Chart of Most Popular Books of All Time by Number of Translations and Editions
Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in. … Read More
“Run, Run Lester!” Stupid Christmas Cat Video from the HilbertSpace Regional Cat Preserve
No one out there deserves to be shown more doting cat photographs or videos, I know. I get it. But here's one that Lynn's friend Cat (yes, her name is Cat) made… Read More
“Christmas at Sea” by Robert Louis Stevenson
The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand . . .… Read More
“Invocation” a Short Film Directed by Robert Morgan
Don't mess with the teddy bear! Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in. … Read More
Rick Mullin Reads from His New Book Coelacanth and Other Poems at the Bowery Poetry Club
"Grounded by generous humor, graced with charming music, Rick Mullin's latest collection, COELACANTH, mingles the modesty of a man 'in need / of better shoes' with the regal bearing of the artist-as-hero,… 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
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