“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
“Thirteen New Ways To Spell ‘AMERIKKKA'” by Quincy R. Lehr
Quincy R. Lehr is the author of several collections, most recently Heimat and the forthcoming The Dark Lord of the Tiki Bar. He is the associate editor of The Raintown Review, and… Read More
Check Out The Subtle Thread by John Tavano, Alfred Nicol, and Ann Harter
The Subtle Thread, a CD of nine original songs written by classical/flamenco guitarist John Tavano (music) and poet Alfred Nicol (lyrics), is finally available online (at CD Baby, iTunes, etc.). … Read More
“Hype” by A.R. Ammons
“Filled with sharp irony and passionate insight, the more than 100 poems in the collection span the career of one of the deans of contemporary poetry. . . . Ammons makes you… Read More
“No Doctor’s Today, Thank You” by Ogden Nash
Nash’s first published poems began to appear in the New Yorker around 1930. His first collection of poems, Hard Lines, was published in 1931. The book was a tremendous success; it went… Read More
“The Stenographers” by P.K. Page
Patricia Kathleen Page is best known as a Canadian poet. She is the author of more than thirty published books that include poetry, fiction, travel diaries, essays, children's books, and an autobiography.… Read More
“The White Ship” 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
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
“Three Lucies” by Jason Zuzga
For the anatomical sensations he observes, in the tenderness of his sentences, in his insatiate curiosity, his experience of surrealism, we might consider Jason Zuzga the Oliver Sacks of poetry. His… 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
For Mardi Gras, Some Professor Longhair!
Henry Roeland "Roy" Byrd (December 19, 1918 – January 30, 1980), better known as Professor Longhair, was a New Orleans blues singer and pianist. The music journalist Tony Russell, in his book… 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
Music Alive Trailer for Stella Sung’s New Ballet “Fate of Place”
As may of you probably know, I've been working on a new opera with composer Stella Sung, commissioned by New Music USA and the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance, to premiere in May… 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
“Ich Bin ein Charlie Hebdo” by Quincy Lehr
Quincy R. Lehr is the author of several collections, most recently Heimat and the forthcoming The Dark Lord of the Tiki Bar. He is the associate editor of The Raintown Review, and… Read More
“Picker” by Miller Williams
"Miller Williams writes about ordinary people in the extraordinary moments of their lives." - John Ciardi… Read More
“Letter to Virginia Woolf” by Terese Coe
Terese Coe's poems and translations have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Poetry, New American Writing, Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Huffington Post, Poetry Review, the TLS, Agenda, New Walk… 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
Books Read or Reread by Ernest Hilbert in 2014
Well, that's it. Another year swirls slowly around the drain, soon to be gone. Here is my annual roundup of books I somehow found the time to read over the past year.… Read More
“As the Rooks Are” by Elizabeth Jennings
Elizabeth Jennings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1926, and lived most of her life in Oxford, where she moved in 1932. She was educated at Rye St Antony and Oxford High… Read More
“Christmas Eve” by Rick Mullin, from Sonnets from the Voyage of the Beagle
Rick Mullin is a journalist and painter whose book-length poem Soutine, on the painter Chaïm Soutine, was published by Dos Madres Press in 2012. His poetry collection Coelacanth was published by Dos… Read More
“Christmas At The Orphanage” by Bill Knott
Bill Knott’s poetry collections include The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans (1968), Becos (1983), Outremer, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize (1988), Laugh at the End of the World: Collected… Read More