“Visible Spectrum” by Ernest Hilbert
“There are books of poetry that, if only readers could be induced to pick them up, might change their minds for good about the supposed incomprehensibility, preciousness, and irrelevance of modern poetry.… Read More
“Neil deGrasse Tyson” by Christopher Bullard
Chris Bullard is a native of Jacksonville, FL. He lives in Collingswood, NJ. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. Kattywompus Press published his… Read More
“I-89 STOWE/WATERBURY (Exit 10: Route 100)” by Neil Shepard
Neil Shepard’s sixth book of poetry, Hominid Up, was published by Salmon Poetry (Ireland) in January 2015. His seventh book, Vermont Exit Ramps II, a full collection of poems and photographs, was… Read More
“Verses upon the Burning of our House” by Anne Bradstreet
"She is a holy seductress, our grandmother of American literature. She is our reluctant revolutionary, passionate pilgrim, tenth muse; and above all--our first published poet." - Annabelle Moseley… Read More
“Dick’s Island” by David Sanders
David Sanders is the general editor of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and the founding editor of Poetry News in Review. His poems and translation have appeared in numerous journals and magazine.… Read More
“Phil Kills the Neighbor’s Dog on Easter Sunday” by Kevin Cutrer
Kevin Cutrer was born in the American South, has lived in South America, and now resides in the southernmost neighborhood of Boston. His first poetry collection, Lord’s Own Anointed, was published in… Read More
Excerpt from “Wiped Out” 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 reviews… Read More
Desk Copies of Ernest Hilbert’s Caligulan are Available for University Professors and Instructors
If you teach a course in contemporary American poetry and you'd like to try something new, consider requesting a desk copy of my latest book, Caligulan, from Measure Press. … Read More
“Red Wand” by Sandra Simonds
Sandra Simonds is the author of Mother Was a Tragic Girl (Cleveland State University Press, 2012). She teaches at Thomas University and lives in Tallahassee, Florida. … Read More
“The Drinker” by Robert Lowell
"The subjects of these poems will eventually become extinct, like all other natural species devoured by time, but the indelible mark of their impression on a single sensibility will remain, in Lowell's… Read More
Janelle Reyes Reads Ernest Hilbert’s “Domestic Situation” from Sixty Sonnets
Janelle Reyes from Capital Christian High School performs "Domestic Situation" by Ernest Hilbert at Poetry Out Loud 2016.… Read More
Excerpt from “Wiped Out” 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 reviews… Read More
“Kingdom Come” by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the award-winning author of two books of poetry, The Ground and Heaven, both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, as well as the acclaimed collection of literary essays… Read More
“Death Under Glass” by Weldon Kees
"Others have called themselves Apocalyptics; Kees lived in a permanent and hopeless apocalypse." - Kenneth Rexroth … Read More
“The Philosopher” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
"America has two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay." - Thomas Hardy… Read More
“Consider this and in our time” by W.H. Auden
"Auden was the first poet writing in English who felt at home in the twentieth century. He welcomed into his poetry all the disordered conditions of his time, all its variety of… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Sirius XM Business Radio Interview with Dan Loney, February 2016
Ernest Hilbert Sirius XM Radio February 2016 [0:00:00] [Music] Dan: Ernest Hilbert is a rare books dealer for Bauman Rare Books here in Philadelphia. He’s also a poet. And he joins us… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Recent Publications and Other News February and March 2016
A quick update on some recent activity in the realms of poetry and opera for the edification of those who do not follow me on Facebook or Twitter.… Read More
“The Magnet” by Thomas Stanley
"Stanley's fame was as a scholar and translator. He was the author of History of Philosophy (1655-62) and edited Aeschylus in 1663. His best know translations are those of Anacreon and of… Read More
“A Visitation” by Eric Thomas Norris
Eric Norris lives in Portlandia, USA. His poems and short stories have appeared in Soft Blow, Assaracus, Jonathan, The Nervous Breakdown, Glitterwolf, The Raintown Review, and E-Verse Radio.… Read More
“Five Flights Up” by Elizabeth Bishop
"Elizabeth Bishop was not just a good poet but a great one. Bishop accomplished a magical illumination of the ordinary, forcing us to examine our surroundings with the freshness of a friendly… Read More
“Trumpet Player” by Langston Hughes
"Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American Literature...a powerful interpreter of the American experience . . . His poems are as vital as ever." - Philadelphia Inquirer… Read More
“All-Night T.V.” by Christina Cook
Christina Cook is the author of two chapbooks, Ricochet (Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press, 2016) and Lake Effect (Finishing Line Press, 2012). Her book, A Strange Insomnia, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books.… Read More
David Bowie and Lou Reed Perform Together on Bowie’s 50th Birthday
Two rock legends share the stage at David Bowie's 50th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden in 1997. It's hard to accept that they are both gone now. … Read More
“The Relic” by John Donne
"Wonder—exciting vigour, intenseness and peculiarity of thought, using at well almost boundless stores of capacious memory, and exercised on subjects, where we have no right to expect it—this is the wit of… Read More
“Destinations” by Anthony Hecht
"Hecht's poetry works the fault lines of human failing, gauging the pitfalls of pride and what he called 'the infections of the ego.'" - David Yezzi… Read More
Philip Levine Reads from his Debut Poetry Collection ‘On The Edge’
Thanks to the online digital archive of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, you can listen to a recording of former U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine reading his early poetry.… Read More
Geoffrey Hill Reads from “The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy” for the 99th anniversary of Charles Péguy’s death at Villeroy
On September 8th, Sir Geoffrey Hill has attended the 99th anniversary of Charles Péguy's death at Villeroy (30 kilometers from Paris). As a tribute to the famous French poet and polemicist, he… Read More
“Anasazi” by Terese Coe
Terese Coe’s poems and translations have appeared in Threepenny Review, Poetry, New American Writing, Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, New Writing Scotland, The Moth, the TLS, Poetry Review, New Walk… Read More
“Dream Song 70” by John Berryman
“The character of Henry [the hero of The Dream Songs] is a permanent addition to our literature.” - James Schevill… Read More