E-Verse Equinox Reading Series, Featuring Afaa Michael Weaver, George Green, and Bojan Louis
The inaugural reading in the new E-Verse Equinox Reading Series at Robin's Books, hosted by Ernest Hilbert. Please share and stop by!… Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Poem “Ice Dwellers Watching the Invaders” in the New Issue of Academic Questions
My poems "Ice-Dwellers Watching the Invaders" and "Liberty Leading the People" appear in the new issue of Academic Questions, a print and online publication from the National Association of Scholars. Both poems… Read More
Tibullus’ Elegies, Book I, Elegy I, translated by A.M. Juster
A.M. Juster is a three-time winner of the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. His poems and translations have appeared in The Paris Review, Southwest Review, First Things, The New Criterion, North American Review,… Read More
Three Poems by G.M. Palmer, from His Brand-New Debut Volume With Rough Gods
"Mythmaking is the first art. Written with a unity of vision largely forgotten by contemporary poetry, G.M. Palmer’s With Rough Gods grazes the foundations of Greek mythology, endowing gods and legends with… Read More
Cynthia Brings Us Gardening in a New Direction and Her Photos from the Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Gardens
Patrick Blanc may not be a household name but it should be. He has been a pioneer in combining gardening and architecture in ways that are stunning to behold including taking… Read More
“White Horse” by Ernest Hilbert in The Oxonian Review of Books, with Audio
This poem appears along with two others from my work-in-progress Welcome to All the Pleasures over at the Oxonian Review.… Read More
“Glacier” by Ernest Hilbert in the Oxonian Review
The quasi-mythical events detailed in "Glacier" occurred when I climbed to the rim of Arapaho Glacier in Colorado (12,250 ft.) with fellow poets David Yezzi and Charles Doersch in the summer of… Read More
“St. Martin’s Lane” by Ben Mazer
Ben Mazer's most recent collections of poems are Poems (The Pen & Anvil Press, 2010) and January 2008 (Dark Sky Books, 2010). "St. Martin's Lane" is from his new collection Tales of… Read More
“Highway to Hell” by AC/DC
I'm reading Joe Bonomo's book AC/DC's Highway To Hell, part of the diverting 33 1/3 series by Continuum. The series matches a famous (or infamous) album with a music critic who analyzes… Read More
Bethany’s “Things I learned from Reading Gabby”
I recently read the book Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope by Giffords and her husband (Mark Kelly, a navy pilot who served in the first Gulf War, as well as… Read More
Make Your Own Personalized Wordseach
Make your valentine his/her own customized Word Search puzzle, courtesy of Cynthia. … Read More
Witness the Death of Mercury Radio Theater (with Promo and Movie Featuring Ernest Hilbert)!
Unfortunately I'll be in LA this night, but I'll be up on the big screen over the band! Check out the video. … Read More
Ernest Hilbert Name-Checked in TLS
Odd to see your name in print when you're not expecting it. … Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Introduction to Four Charles Dickens Novels, Issued in the Canterbury Classics Series
Yeah, you might even see me in Sam's Club. … Read More
Get Ready to Wwwaaaaaste Some Tiiiiiiiiiime: 25 More of the Most Interesting Wikipedia Pages
Yeah, you thought you were going to get some work done today . . . … Read More
Poe for kids? You bet!
Kids are never too young to hear rich language. I recently came across a wonderful series of books called “Poetry for Young People.” The series devotes one book to each poet. There is… Read More
“Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam” by Rob Whitworth
"Everyone who has visited Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam knows part of the magic (love it or hate it) is in the traffic. Ever since I first set foot in HCMC I… Read More
“A Modern Herbal: Juglans Nigra” by Amy Glynn Greacen
Amy Glynn Greacen is a poet, novelist, and food writer. She was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and educated at Mount Holyoke college and Lancaster University, England. Her… Read More
“Si Non Te Veo Feliche Morte” (“If I Don’t Ever See You, Die Happy”)
One of my favorite word sites, savethewords.org, has gone dark just like many of the obscure and archaic words that it tried to save . . . … Read More
“In the Dead Air” by Glyn Maxwell
Glyn Maxwell was born in 1962 in Welwyn Garden City, England. He is the author of several collections of poems, including Out of the Rain (1992), for which he received a Somerset… Read More
“I have been studying how I may compare / This prison where I live unto the world”: David Yezzi Recites Richard II’s Soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Richard II, V.5
David Yezzi, poet, critic, editor, librettist, playwright, and trained Shakespearean actor, takes on one of the great soliloquies and delivers with astounding power. … Read More
So You Think You Got Game? Try This!
BTW: I used to be just a regular E-Verser like you . . . then I took an arrow to the knee.… Read More
“On the Corner” by Ernest Hilbert
Edinburgh’s oldest literary journal and released three times a year, The Edinburgh Review has been transforming the critical landscape since 1802. Issue 133 features poetry by Paul Muldoon, Ernest Hilbert, Jen Hadfield,… Read More
E-Verser Cynthia Reports from the Front Lines of the No Pants Subway Ride
E-Verse correspondent Cynthia sends in some photos from the 2012 No Pants Subway Ride, NYC edition. … Read More
“Flatirons” by David Yezzi
David Yezzi’s books of poetry are Sad Is Eros and The Hidden Model. His libretto for a chamber opera by David Conte, Firebird Motel, received its world premiere in 2003 and was… Read More
“Earth: Time Lapse View from Space, Flyover, NASA, ISS” by Michael König
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at… Read More
“You Play Dean and I’ll Play Sal”: Jack Kerouac Writes to Marlon Brando Urging Him to Make a Movie of On the Road
Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in. … Read More
“Bedroom Eyes” by Dum Dum Girls
Write about what you know. That's what they say. But that's a lot easier said than done when what you know is very, very difficult to bear. That was the challenge Dum… Read More
“Range” by Ernest Hilbert
Edinburgh’s oldest literary journal and released three times a year, The Edinburgh Review has been transforming the critical landscape since 1802. Issue 133 features poetry by Paul Muldoon, Ernest Hilbert, Jen Hadfield,… Read More
“High Heel” by Erica Dawson, in the Best of the Barefoot Muse
An anthology of the best poems that appeared in the online journal, The Barefoot Muse, 2005-2010, selected and arranged by Anna M. Evans, including poems by Mike Alexander Tiel Aisha Ansari Peter… Read More