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“Phil Kills the Neighbor’s Dog on Easter Sunday” by Kevin Cutrer

By On March 14, 2016

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

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Excerpt from “Wiped Out” by James Matthew Wilson

By On March 10, 2016

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

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Desk Copies of Ernest Hilbert’s Caligulan are Available for University Professors and Instructors

By On March 7, 2016

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

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“Red Wand” by Sandra Simonds

By On March 7, 2016

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

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“The Drinker” by Robert Lowell

By On March 1, 2016

"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

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Janelle Reyes Reads Ernest Hilbert’s “Domestic Situation” from Sixty Sonnets

By On February 26, 2016

Janelle Reyes from Capital Christian High School performs "Domestic Situation" by Ernest Hilbert at Poetry Out Loud 2016.… Read More

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Excerpt from “Wiped Out” by James Matthew Wilson

By On February 26, 2016

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

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“Kingdom Come” by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

By On February 25, 2016

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

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“Death Under Glass” by Weldon Kees

By On February 24, 2016

"Others have called themselves Apocalyptics; Kees lived in a permanent and hopeless apocalypse." - Kenneth Rexroth … Read More

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“The Philosopher” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

By On February 22, 2016

"America has two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay." - Thomas Hardy… Read More

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“Consider this and in our time” by W.H. Auden

By On February 21, 2016

"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

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Ernest Hilbert Sirius XM Business Radio Interview with Dan Loney, February 2016

By On February 20, 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

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Ernest Hilbert Recent Publications and Other News February and March 2016

By On February 17, 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

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“The Magnet” by Thomas Stanley

By On February 14, 2016

"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

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“A Visitation” by Eric Thomas Norris

By On February 11, 2016

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

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“Five Flights Up” by Elizabeth Bishop

By On February 8, 2016

"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

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“Trumpet Player” by Langston Hughes

By On February 1, 2016

"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

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“All-Night T.V.” by Christina Cook

By On January 28, 2016

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

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David Bowie and Lou Reed Perform Together on Bowie’s 50th Birthday

By On January 22, 2016

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

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“The Relic” by John Donne

By On January 22, 2016

"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

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“Destinations” by Anthony Hecht

By On January 16, 2016

"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

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Philip Levine Reads from his Debut Poetry Collection ‘On The Edge’

By On January 10, 2016

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

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Geoffrey Hill Reads from “The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy” for the 99th anniversary of Charles Péguy’s death at Villeroy

By On January 8, 2016

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

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“Anasazi” by Terese Coe

By On January 8, 2016

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

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“Dream Song 70” by John Berryman

By On January 7, 2016

“The character of Henry [the hero of The Dream Songs] is a permanent addition to our literature.” - James Schevill… Read More

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“Winter Insomnia” by Raymond Carver

By On January 5, 2016

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His father was a saw-mill worker and his mother was a waitress and clerk. He married early and for years writing had to… Read More

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“Whereabouts” by Kevin Cutrer

By On January 3, 2016

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

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A Christmas Message from Our Cat Wicked Lester Bangs

By On December 25, 2015

Merry Christmas one and all!… Read More

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Books Read or Reread by Ernest Hilbert in 2015

By On December 21, 2015

Another year down, and once again I lament I only found time for a small number of the books I had hoped to read. Here's the rundown of what I managed to… Read More

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“The Peppers in December” by Rick Mullin

By On December 21, 2015

Rick Mullin's collection, Stignatz & the User of Vicenza, will be published in January by Dos Madres Press, Loveland, Ohio.… Read More