Happy New Year from Everyone at E-Verse!
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne! For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne. We'll take a… Read More
“Cryptid” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of The Edinburgh Review
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
“That’s Why I Talk Money Like a Pool Sharp. It’s All Survival; Forgive Me”: Charles Bukowski Learns the Literary Hustle After Quitting His Job
Thanks to E-Verser Brian for sending this one in. … Read More
Books Read or Reread in 2011
Another year gone already? Strange. I never seem to spend as much time reading as I'd like. I imagine others share my dismay when I realize that yet another twelve months have… Read More
“Romance” by Wild Flag
Most of the comments on YouTube are "hey, it's that chick from that show on TV!"… Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Reading at St. Paul’s Chapel on Boxing Day
I had the rather humbling honor of reading three of my poems at St. Paul's Chapel at 200 Broadway, nicknamed the 9/11 Chapel, with the Trinity Bach orchestra and choir, under the… Read More
“Chelsea Hotel” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of The Edinburgh Review
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
Ernest Hilbert Reads at St. Paul’s 9/11 Chapel in Manhattan with Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra conducted by Julian Wachner
On Boxing Day, December 26th, at 1PM, I will read from Auden’s “Christmas Oratorio” as well as from my own poems alongside performances of Bach cantatas by The Trinity Choir and Baroque… Read More
“’Good Taste Is the Excuse I’ve Always Given’” by Ernest Hilbert
All of You on the Good Earth by Ernest Hilbert (scheduled release in 2013) guides the reader through chambers occupied by visionary gravediggers and spaced-out movie stars, frenzied dropouts, sullen pirates, and… Read More
“Eight Types of Christopher”: Eight Clerihews by Neil Garr
Neil Garr is an obscure but important author of Clerihews about gentlemen named Christopher. No, that is not a picture of him. That's Christopher Logue, RIP. … Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Poem “Internet K-Hole” in At Length Magazine’s “Telephone” Project
At Length is a venue for ambitious, in-depth writing, music, photography, and art that are open to possibilities shorter forms preclude. As a print-friendly online magazine, we create ways for readers, listeners,… Read More
“Lot’s Wife” by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Max Hayward and Stanley Kunitz
"No one in my large family wrote poetry. But the first Russian woman poet, Anna Bunina, was the aunt of my grandfather Erasm Ivanovich Stogov. The Stogovs were modest landowners in the… Read More
“How to Be a Sensitive Poet” by Matt Groening
A simple guide to becoming a poet . . . … Read More
It’s Official: This is the Worst Music Video of All Time
The blog Dangerous Minds asks "could Alternate Reality’s 'The King That Never Was' be the worst song and music video of 2011? You tell me. The video starts out with the aesthetic… Read More
“The Dead” by Mina Loy
"Loy has been labelled a Futurist, Dadaist, Surrealist, feminist, conceptualist, modernist, and post-modernist. Experimenting with media in her artwork, she moved from oil to ink by World War I, then lighting fixtures… Read More
“A.D. Blood” by Edgar Lee Masters, from Spoon River Anthology
"Of course what made Spoon River Anthology immediately popular was the shock of recognition. Here for the first time in America was the whole of a society which people recognized - not… Read More
from “Jacques Lipchitz” by Paul Siegell
Created entirely in Microsoft Word, Jacques Lipchitz is a book-length visual poem built upon typographical recreations of the sculptor's biography and works. Known as one of the twentieth century's major artists, Jacques… Read More
“Glorious First” by Ernest Hilbert in American Arts Quarterly
American Arts Quarterly is available free of charge to artists, scholars and related professionals. … Read More
What America’s Got Talent Should Be Like: Warning, Much Pain Self-Inflicted by Participants
Ouch! These guys are tough as nails. And they know nails!… Read More
The Coolest Thing Involving Birds that You Will See Today: “Murmuration” a Short Film by Sophie Windsor Clive
This is a must for bird lovers as well as students of gas and cloud theory and those with an interest in hive minds or collective consciousness. … Read More
“A Pot Poured Out” by Samuel Menashe
"Although his poems appeared with some regularity in journals like Partisan Review and The New Yorker, he wrote and lived as a bohemian, and throughout his career encountered difficulties in finding a… Read More
“Orts” by David Yezzi
“David Yezzi’s finely-tuned meters make the sound of New York now: a generous, disabused intelligence holding its nerve as nonsense and brutality build at the line’s edge, and the consolations of the… Read More
“The World is Too Much with Us” by William Wordsworth
"Wordsworth changed forever the way we view the natural world and the inner world of feeling. He also connected the two indivisibly. We are his heirs, and we see and feel through… Read More
“Money Is Also a Kind of Music” by Jason Guriel
"I hope that what distinguishes me is that people think my poems are entertaining. To that end, I try to get down to the business of entertaining the reader as quickly as… Read More