“Presents will rain from the sky!” Just What We Were All Waiting for: Black Metal Sock Puppets Singing a Song Called “Immortal Christmas”
They really nail it untl they figure out they were supposed to be singing "Satan," not "Santa.… Read More
“There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House” by Emily Dickinson
"Other poets have published to the world verse which, we think, should have been delivered privately to the three or four in a position to decipher the postmark. Emily locked away in… Read More
“Hail holy Light, offspring of Heav’n first-born…” by John Milton
"Milton ministers superbly to our need to comprehend how variously magnificent and strange the English language is, how finely it can communicate what we wish to say, how dextrously it can help… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Immortalized as an Ink Puddle Comic, At Last!
It's no secret that I'm a fan of comics and, ahem, graphic novels. In particular, I've been a fan of Ink Puddle Comics for some time, particularly the Devil and Mr. Gandhi series.… Read More
Classic Horror Tales, with an Introduction by Ernest Hilbert
I finally managed to obtain a copy of the horror anthology for which I supplied the introduction (9,000 words), which was issued in October for Halloween. It seems the publisher is angling… Read More
“A Dirge” by Christina Rossetti
"Of all Victorian women poets, posterity has been kindest to Christina Rossetti....Her poetry is increasingly being recognized as among the most beautiful and innovative of the period by either sex." -- The… Read More
“The Cartographer” by Rob Griffith
Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Rob Griffith is the author of four collections of poetry: A Matinee in Plato's Cave, winner of the 2009 Best Book of Indiana Award; Poisoning Caesar; and Necessary… Read More
The Book Collector: A New Opera by Stella Sung and Librettist Ernest Hilbert
Have a look at the new postcard for The Book Collector, read the synopsis, and watch some videos of the making of our last opera, Red Silk Thread: An Epic Tale of… Read More
“The Little Vagabond” by William Blake
"Blake neither wrote nor drew for the many, hardly for work'y-day men at all, rather for children and angels; himself 'a divine child,' whose playthings were sun, moon, and stars, the heavens… Read More
“Giving Thanks” by Tony Harrison
"A poet of great technical accomplishment whose work insists that it is speech rather than page-bound silence"-- Sean O'Brien… Read More
“Minnesota Thanksgiving” by John Berryman
"The frankness of Berryman’s work influenced his friend Robert Lowell and other Confessional poets like Anne Sexton. The poet’s lifelong struggles with alcoholism and depression ended in 1972, when he jumped off… Read More
“The Arctic Ox (or Goat)” by Marianne Moore
"More than any modern poet, she gives us the feeling that life is softly exploding around us, within easy reach." --John Ashberry… Read More
“Sunset Threnody” by Yusef Komunyakaa
"The best writing we've had from the long war in Vietnam has been prose so far. Yusef Komunyakaa's 'Dien Cai Dau' changes that." -- William Matthews… Read More
“My Wedding Ring” by J.D. McClatchy
With his first several books, J. D. McClatchy established himself as a poet of urbanity, intellect, and prismatic emotion, in the tradition of James Merrill, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop––one who… Read More
Paul Ferraro’s Poster for Ernest Hilbert and David Blair’s Reading in Cambridge
New Poetry by Ernest Hilbert and David Blair, hosted by Daniel Wuenschel of the Cambridge Public Library, Thursday, November 12th at 7PM at the First Congregational Church, 11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads with David Blair at First Congregational Church in Cambridge, MA
New Poetry by Ernest Hilbert and David Blair, hosted by Daniel Wuenschel of the Cambridge Public Library, Thursday, November 12th at 7PM at the First Congregational Church, 11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA… Read More
CALIGULAN T-SHIRTS!
If you like my new collection, Caligulan (or even if you don't!), you might want to check out the Caligulan t-shirt, designed by Jennifer Mercer, who also designed the covers of my… Read More
“Great White Fleet” by Ernest Hilbert
My poem "Great White Fleet," slated for my fourth book, Last One Out, appears in the new anthology, Best of the Raintown Review, edited by Anna Evans, Quincy Lehr, and Jeff Holt.… Read More
“All the Dead Dears” by Sylvia Plath
“The fiercest poet of our time”-- Anne Stevenson… Read More
“Allegheny Cemetery Day in Winter” by David Blair
David Blair is the author of Ascension Days (Del Sol Press, 2007) and Arsonville, which will be published by New Issues Poetry & Prose in 2016. He teaches at the New England… Read More
“Singer” by Justin Quinn
JUSTIN QUINN has lived in Prague since 1992. His most recent collection is Early House (Gallery, 2015) and he has translated the work of Czech poets, including Ivan Blatny, Petr Borkovec and… Read More
“Madman Bucket List: A Study for my ‘Lemon Meringue Pie Thrown in Face of George Bush’ Poem” by James Feichthaler
James Feichthaler runs an open-mic poetry reading called "The Dead Bards of Philadelphia" at the Venice Island Performing Arts Center in Manayunk, PA. The self-proclaimed "forrealist poet" is set to release… Read More
“Little Song” by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, the winner of a Whiting Writers' Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and the GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry, is the author of The Ground (FSG, 2012). He lives… Read More
“The View Near a Black Hole” by Christine Klocek-Lim
Christine Klocek-Lim received the 2009 Ellen La Forge Memorial Prize in poetry. She has four poetry chapbooks: Ballroom - a love story (Flutter Press 2012), Cloud Studies - a sonnet sequence (Whale… Read More
“A High-Toned Old Christian Woman” by Wallace Stevens
"One of the most considerable poets of the last hundred years...Poems that are as distinguished as any written in this century." --Thom Gunn… Read More
ERNEST HILBERT’S NEW BOOK, CALIGULAN, NOW AVAILABLE
Ernest Hilbert's third collection of poetry, Caligulan, is now available for sale. … Read More
“Hotel Water Deemed Safe Despite Corpse” by Ernest Hilbert
There’s much pleasure, clarity, and discipline to the way Ernest Hilbert looks around him in Caligulan, at the complicated textures of city and landscape, and at all the stuff, the materials, the… Read More
“Rhapsody on a Windy Night” by T.S. Eliot
"A thorough knowledge of Eliot is compulsory for anyone interested in contemporary literature. Whether he is liked or disliked is of no importance, but he must be read." --Northrop Frye… Read More
“Blades” by C.K. Williams
“Williams’s work reflects the moral self-questioning of Herbert, the plain-spokenness and the yearning toward nature of Wordsworth, the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart of the later Yeats.” -- Brian Phillips… Read More