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
Lionel Richie’s Song “Hello” Recreated Entirely from Short Dialogue Clips from Films
Is it me you're looking for? … 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
Moving Takahashi
"An ambitious mover is blindsided when he discovers that one of the pieces of furniture left behind for him is a suicidal daughter with 20 minutes left to live."… Read More
Ben Downing Invites You to an English Salon
Ben Downing, a Harvard graduate, has written a variety of books and articles, and has taught writing and literature courses at Columbia, Bryn Mawr, and the 92nd Street Y. … Read More
Cynthia’s “Other Ways to Have a Fling”
Since Bethany brought up websites for people who want to have affairs, I thought I'd respond with some other ways to have a fling!… 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
“A Postcard From The Volcano” by Wallace Stevens
“Far more than Eliot or Pound, Stevens wished passionately to be above all a poet of twentieth-century America and its American English; and he had the luck, as they did not, to… Read More
“It’s Austerely Fun!”: Cormac McCarthy Pictionary
Thanks to Brian Heston for bringing this to my attention. … 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
Ernie Appears on “Boys with Beards with Cats” Website
Hard to get a cat to smile on cue . . . … Read More
“Method Actor” by Justin Stokes
"A powerful 3 minute short film which presents the monologue of a single actor (John Shrapnel). Through his reminiscences the audience gets an insight a dark, confused and embittered mind."… Read More
“Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?” by Thomas Hardy
"Hardy's poetry explores a fatalist outlook against the dark, rugged landscape of his native Dorset. He rejected the Victorian belief in a benevolent God, and much of his poetry reads as a… 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
“Fire Safety” by Joshua Mehigan
“Mr. Mehigan is Frost-like in the way he plays speech rhythms against the patterns of verse, creating a tense, deceptively simple music. . . . Mr. Mehigan also has something of Frost’s… Read More
From “The Cloud Corporation” by Timothy Donnelly
The Cloud Corporation is “an eclectic, albeit judicious, mix of sprawling, cinematic subjects and literary traditions—bridging heightened, Victorian diction, say, with the modern tongue.” - Spencer Bailey… Read More
Make Your Own Personalized Wordseach
Make your valentine his/her own customized Word Search puzzle, courtesy of Cynthia. … Read More
“13:59” by Mario Feil
BTS by Peter Hainzl: vimeo.com/33272532/ shot on pre production unit of the new Canon EOS C300 camera guy in a tram finds a pack of cigarettes and realizes that it's not a usual brand... I… Read More
“Brothers” by The War on Drugs
The U.S. government may have declared a "war" on drugs in June 1969, but the band that take their name from that unmitigated failure look back a few years prior for musical… Read More
“First of the Year (Equinox)” by Skrillex
Not safe for children. Or adults, apparently . . . … 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
“Road Rage” by Nick Khoo
"Dedicated to all those jerks who cut me off on the road. You know who you are . . . Animated in After Effects."… Read More
“Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” by Fleet Foxes Drummer Joshua Tillman’s New Project Father John Misty Featuring Aubrey Plaza
Aubrey Plaza has perfected the bored, disappointed, disapproving pout on Parks & Rec, but on the new video for Father John Misty we get to see her making every possible face as… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Name-Checked in TLS
Odd to see your name in print when you're not expecting it. … Read More