“Gerard Manley Hopkins” by Leontia Flynn
"Exact and casual and formally adept, a bit like an Irish (and female) Frank O'Hara, and not a bit like anyone else." - Adam Phillips… Read More
“40th Anniversary Edition” by Michael Robbins
"Michael Robbins is our contemporary poet laureate for beautiful sins of language..... The Second Sex is a confident, skillful work that will make readers reconsider poetry." -- The Millions… Read More
“The ‘Buried Book'” by Meredith Bergmann
Meredith Bergmann is a sculptor whose public commissions include the Boston Women’s Memorial, the Labor Memorial for the Massachusetts State House, and the September 11th Memorial for NYC's Cathedral of St. John… Read More
“Langston Hughes’s Grandma Mary Writes a Love Letter to Lewis Leary Years after He Dies Fighting at Harper’s Ferry” by Erica Dawson
“Dawson draws an especially timely self-portrait. She generates great energy by pulling at the impossible and sometimes pleasurable tangles of what is constant in us, and what is disposable in the… Read More
“Red Eyes” by The War on Drugs
The War on Drugs performs "Red Eyes" at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Spain.… Read More
Jonathan Creasy Interviews Ernest Hilbert for New Dublin Press, Part One, Plus a New Poem, “Caligulan,” with Audio
Jonathan Creasy, an editor at New Dublin Press, conducted a comprehensive, long-form interview with me over the course of several months. The first installment has been published, along with a new poem,… Read More
Jack White at Château de Fontainebleau
Jack White performs "The Same Boy You've Always Known" and "Entitlement" for La Blogotheque in Saint-Saturnin Chapel, Fontainebleau Castle, on June 30th, 2014.… Read More
“Tadpoles” by Brian Patrick Heston
Brian Patrick Heston grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He holds an MFA in fiction from George Mason University and an MFA in poetry from Rutgers University. His poems have won awards from… Read More
E-Verse Autumn Equinox at Fergie’s Pub!
Featuring Iain Haley Pollock, author of Spit Back a Boy, Kate Gale, author of The Goldilocks Zone, and Quincy R. Lehr, author of Heimat, hosted by Ernest Hilbert… Read More
“Heal” by Strand of Oaks
"From the first bars of HEAL, the exhilarating melodic stomp of ‘Goshen ‘97’ puts you right into Tim Showalter’s fervent teenage mindset. We find him in his family’s basement den in Goshen,… Read More
“London Bridge” by Kate Gale
Kate Gale is the Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Editor of The Los Angeles Review, and President of the American Composers Forum, Los Angeles. She teaches in Low Residency MFA programs… Read More
“Ocean Swimming” by Ernest Hilbert in Clarion
The BU Literary Society was founded as BU Students for Literary Awareness in the fall of 1997, under the leadership of Jennifer Herron. The group's original members meant to publish a magazine… Read More
“Second Line” by Iain Haley Pollock
"Beyond the bracing intelligence in these poems, beyond the surges of joy and trouble, beyond the poet’s awe in this split second, he plunges with imagination into the timeless work of loving… Read More
“Shoal of Sharks” by Richard O’Connell
Richard O'Connell lives in Hillsboro Beach, Florida. Collections of his poetry include RetroWorlds, Simulations, Voyages, and The Bright Tower, all published by the University of Salzburg Press (now Poetry Salzburg). His poems… Read More
“Chamise” by Amy Glynn Greacen
Amy Glynn Greacen is the author of A Modern Herbal (Measure Press, 2014). Her work also appears in Best American Poetry (2010, 2012), New England Review, Poetry Northwest, Southwest Review, The New… Read More
“‘THE LOST KINGS UPHOLD MY SIDE'” by Ernest Hilbert
“Hilbert has written poems of superb lyricism. It’s hard to think of another poet with such range, and indeed with such brilliant delivery. Beauty, trash, exaltation, and humor are contained in… Read More
“Mirror” by Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright fellowship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes.… Read More
“Banking Hours” by Morri Creech
Morri Creech was born in Moncks Corner, S.C. in 1970 and was educated at Winthrop University and McNeese State University. He is the author of three collections of poetry, Paper Cathedrals (Kent… Read More
“Ink” by Michael Shewmaker
Michael Shewmaker is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Yale Review, Southwest Review, Sewanee Theological Review, New Criterion, Measure, American Arts Quarterly,… Read More
“Pines” by Callie Siskel
Callie Siskel lives in Baltimore and teaches creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, where she earned her MFA in poetry in 2013. Her recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the… Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Poem “Martini” Reprinted in Modern Drunkard Magazine
My poem “Martini,” inspired in part by The Martini: An Illustrated History of an American Classic by the perfectly named Barnaby Conrad III (also inspired in part by martinis). It first… Read More
“Corn Maze” by David Barber
David Barber is the poetry editor at The Atlantic Monthly. His first book The Spirit Level (Northwestern, 1995) was published as a winner of the Terrence Des Pres Prize. Barber's poems have… Read More
“Over the Hills” by Edward Thomas
Philip Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth, London in 1878, of Welsh descent. He was educated at St Paul's college and then Lincoln College at Oxford University, where he studied history. A… Read More
Lend a Hand in the Creation of Orison Books
Orison Books, a non-profit literary press "focused on the life of the spirit from a broad range of perspectives," is the latest brainchild of North Carolinian poet and editor Luke Hankins. Watch… Read More
“Lower Case i and j” by Orlando White
Orlando White's poetry glimmers with Diné notions of “thought creating thought” while re-configuring saad (language) into floating archipelagos of states which mutate into flashes of images that compel and startle. His work… Read More
Ernest Hilbert and Beth Greenberg in the Valley
Here's a nice little article about New York-based opera director Beth Greenberg at the Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado and her work with me, including her visit to my graduate course… Read More
“The Grocery Bouquet” by Isabella Gardner
Born in Newton, Massachusetts, poet and actress Isabella Gardner was the cousin of poet Robert Lowell and the great-niece of art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner. Educated at the Foxcroft School in Virginia,… Read More
“Going to Bed” by Eric Thomas Norris
Eric Norris is the author of 3 books: Terence, Nocturnal Omissions—with Gavin Geoffrey Dillard, and Cock Sucking (On Mars). He is a founding editor of the online poetry journal Kin (wearekin.org). Eric… Read More
“Summer” by John Clare
Come we to the summer, to the summer we will come, For the woods are full of bluebells and the hedges full of bloom, And the crow is on the oak a-building… Read More
“cruel, cruel summer” by D.A. Powell
"Born in Albany, Georgia, D.A. Powell received an MA at Sonoma State University and an MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His first three collections of poetry, Tea, (1998), Lunch (2000), and… Read More