“All Day Dance” by Thomas Devaney
Thomas Devaney is the author of The Picture That Remains (The Print Center, Philadelphia, 2014), A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum, 2007), The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee Press, 1999),… Read More
“We Think We Know How Art and Music Affect Us”: Stephen Fry Hosts “The Science of Opera,” a Discussion of How Music Moves Us Physically to Tears
"In an exciting world first, The Science of Opera with Stephen Fry and Alan Davies saw a team of medical scientists from UCL discovering what happens inside us when we go to… Read More
“To a Dead Lover” by Louis Bogan
"Behind the Bogan poems is a woman, intense, proud, strong-willed. . . . Her poems can be read and reread: they keep yielding new meanings, as all good poetry should. The ground… Read More
“Pink Ruff” by Bleeding Rainbow
"Nevermind the constant threat of a cease and desist letter, when Carrie Brownstein tells you that your band name is weak, you change it. But it isn’t as simple as a name… Read More
“Up High, No Higher” by David Yezzi
David Yezzi’s poetry collections include Azores (2008) and The Hidden Model (2003), and his criticism and poetry have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and Best… Read More
“God Forbid You Should Follow Your Dreams”: Check Out the Rock Film Losers Take All
"Losers Take All: A hapless but talented mid-1980s indie rock band tries their hardest to blow a record deal, a tour, and their friendship, but can’t even manage to succeed at failure."… Read More
“Head On (Hold On To Your Heart)” by Man Man
"Man Man is a fearlessly unique band from Philadelphia. The group's fifth full length album On Oni Pond features an arresting reconstruction of the group's visionary sound, stripped to its core and… Read More
“9 Meter”: A Short Film by Anders Walter
Written and directed by Anders Walter and produced by Tivi Magnusson & M&M Productions, shortlisted for an Oscar for "Best live action short" 2013.… Read More
“After Midnight” by Louis Simpson
“It’s complicated, being an American, having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.” - Louis Simpson… Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Mummer’s Poem “Broad and Washington”
I've had a few requests for the text of my "Mummer's Poem," which appeared on the radio New Year's Eve. When Peter Crimmins interviewed me for the December 26th News Works Tonight segment… Read More
Another Year Gone, One Step Closer to Death, or, Books Read or Reread in 2013
Another year in books. What were yours this year? … Read More
She’s a Fox”: A Short Film by Written and Directed by Cameron Sawyer
"It's 1987. Infatuated with the hottest girl in school, sixth-grader, Cameron, puts everything on the line, including his mullet, to win the girl of his dreams."… Read More
“Necronomica”: A Short Black Metal Film by Kyle Bogart
"After the departure of friend and drummer Mortimus, Black Metal bandmates Borknarg and Absu begin to lose hope that NECRONOMICA will ever achieve its place as the most evil band in the… Read More
Erica Dawson Reads at the Bowery Poetry Club
In The Small Blades Hurt, Erica Dawson picks up where her debut collection, Big-Eyed Afraid, leaves off: "The world's outside. I'm in." She moves from her border state Maryland to the true… Read More
“My Life as a Hollywood Madam” by Anna Evans
Anna M. Evans’ poems have appeared in the Harvard Review, Atlanta Review, Rattle, American Arts Quarterly, and 32 Poems. She gained her MFA from Bennington College, and is the Editor of the… Read More
“Lunar”: A Short Film by Tyson Wade Johnston
"Los Angeles City, 2057, an outlaw is captured and sentenced to a lifetime of imprisonment on the LUNAR penitentiaries. To reunite with his family, he must become the first convict to escape… Read More
OK, So It’s a First Edition. So What? How Many Editions Could There Be? Chart of Most Popular Books of All Time by Number of Translations and Editions
Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in. … Read More
“The Oxen” by Thomas Hardy
"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him." - Thomas Hardy… Read More
“Run, Run Lester!” Stupid Christmas Cat Video from the HilbertSpace Regional Cat Preserve
No one out there deserves to be shown more doting cat photographs or videos, I know. I get it. But here's one that Lynn's friend Cat (yes, her name is Cat) made… Read More
“The Ballroom of Heaven” by Paul Lake
Paul Lake is the poetry editor of First Things and a professor of English and Creative Writing at Arkansas Tech. His most recent poetry collection is The Republic of Virtue, the winner… Read More
“Keloid,” a Sci Fi Short
"In the future, societies of all countries come to rely on an intricate network of artificial intelligence devices designed to bring efficacy to man's life. Yet, man continues to devour himself in… Read More
“Christmas at Sea” by Robert Louis Stevenson
The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand . . .… Read More
“Feminista” by Heidi Czerwiec
"If 'nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow rooms / and hermits are contented with their cells,' imagine the fun to be had in lacing pin-up icon Bettie Page into this 'scanty… Read More
“Invocation” a Short Film Directed by Robert Morgan
Don't mess with the teddy bear! Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in. … Read More
“The Herefordshire Carol” by Geoffrey Hill
"I think one is right to distrust the opinion that associates self and self-expression, as if the self-expression were ectoplasm emanating in a tenuous stream from the allegedly authentic self. One’s idea… Read More
Rick Mullin Reads from His New Book Coelacanth and Other Poems at the Bowery Poetry Club
"Grounded by generous humor, graced with charming music, Rick Mullin's latest collection, COELACANTH, mingles the modesty of a man 'in need / of better shoes' with the regal bearing of the artist-as-hero,… Read More
“Kissing” by Fleur Adcock
Fleur Adcock (b.1934) is a New Zealander by birth but spent part of her childhood in England, returning to live in London in 1963. She worked as a librarian until 1979 before… Read More
“Sea Urchins” by A.E. Stallings
A. E. Stallings has published two books of poetry, Archaic Smile (1999), which won the Richard Wilbur Award, and Hapax (Northwestern University Press, 2006), which won the Poet’s Prize and the American… Read More
“In a Dark Time” by Theodore Roethke
"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light." - Theodore Roethke … Read More
Recording of Ernest Hilbert Reading Three Poems at Swope Music Hall
Click on the image below to hear a high-quality audio recording of Ernest Hilbert reading three poems from Sixty Sonnets at Swope Music Hall, June 2009: "Prophetic Outlook," "Domestic Situation," and "Calavera… Read More