“Independence Day” by John Poch
John Poch has published four collections of poetry. His most recent, Fix Quiet, won the 2014 New Criterion Poetry Prize. He teaches in the creative writing program at Texas Tech University. His… Read More
“The Night my Sister Went to Hollywood” by Hilda Sheehan
Hilda Sheehan's debut collection is The Night my Sister Went to Hollywood (Cultured Llama Press, 2013). She has also published a chapbook of prose poems, Frances and Martine (Dancing Girl, 2014). … Read More
“14-Year-Old with Two Friends on Bikes Outside the Wawa on Germantown Ave” by Mark Danowsky
Mark Danowsky’s poetry has appeared in About Place, Beechwood Review, Cordite, Elohi Gadugi, Grey Sparrow, Mobius, Right Hand Pointing, Shot Glass Journal, Third Wednesday and elsewhere. Originally from the Philadelphia area, Mark… Read More
“Evening Landscape” by Leonard Gontarek
Leonard Gontarek is the author of six books of poems, including He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs and Déjà vu Diner. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review,… Read More
“Fathers and Sons” by David Mason
"David Mason's poems are about moments of realisation. Something is otherwise. Something has been learned with pain and still it won't settle. There are families moving through houses and institutions, ageing, losing… Read More
“From the Balcony on Heavy Metal Tribute Night at the Trocadero” by Ernest Hilbert
"Per Contra began publication as an online quarterly in the fall of 2005. Our name indicates our intention to offer more than one way of looking at the world. You can… Read More
“The Lion for Real” by Allen Ginsberg
"Ginsberg is both tragic & dynamic, a lyrical genius, con man extraordinaire and probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman." - Bob Dylan… Read More
“Dummy, 51, to Go to a Museum, Ventriloquist Dead at 75” by May Swenson
"Swenson was a visionary poet, a prodigious observer of the fragile and miraculous natural world." - Priscilla Long… Read More
“Black Ice and Rain” by Michael Donaghy
"A linguistic musician, a literary musician. Every poem is a marvel." - Simon Armitage… Read More
“New Order of the Ages” by Rick Mullin
Rick Mullin’s latest Collection, Stignatz & the User of Vicenza is published by Dos Madres Press, Loveland Ohio. His other books published by Dos Madres are the booklength poem Soutine (2012), the… Read More
“To My Mother” by George Barker
"His work was passionate, intellectually challenging and highly original, his language incantatory and often hypnotic. There are echoes of Blake, Housman, Verlaine and Barker's contemporary, Dylan Thomas. " - Peter Wilby… Read More
“Hit, Run” by Dawn Manning
Dawn Manning is a writer, photographer, and rogue anthropologist living in the Greater Philadelphia area. Her awards include the Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, the Edith Garlow Poetry Prize, and the San Miguel Writer’s Conference Writing… Read More
“Blustery” by Neil Shepard
Neil Shepard’s sixth and seventh books of poetry were published in 2015: Hominid Up, by Salmon Poetry (Ireland), and Vermont Exit Ramps II (poems and photos) by Green Writers Press (Vermont).… Read More
“Zeug-o-Matic” by Kate Light
Kate Light, who died unexpectedly in April 2016, was a librettist, lyricist and poet in New York City. She was an alumna of the Eastman School of Music, Hunter College, and the… Read More
“Dream Song 105” by John Berryman
“A major achievement . . . [Berryman] has written an elegy on his brilliant generation and, in the process, he has also written an elegy on himself.” - A. Alvarez, The Observer… Read More
John Betjeman Interviews Philip Larkin in a 1964 Episode of the British Television Program Monitor
John Betjeman interviewing Philip Larkin in a 1964 episode of Monitor, which was a flagship arts program on British TV during the 1950s and 1960s. Larkin reads "Church Going," "Toads Revisited," and… Read More
“Mirror” by Mark Strand
“He is not a religious poet on the face of it, but he fits into a long tradition of meditation and contemplation. He makes you see how trivial the things of this… Read More
“Lines Written in Early Spring” by William Wordsworth
“Wordsworth’s poetry is great because of the extraordinary power with which he feels the joy offered to us in nature, the joy offered to us in the simple elementary affections and duties.”… Read More
“Calmly We Walk through this April’s Day” by Delmore Schwartz
"[Delmore Schwartz] was the prisoner of his superb intellectual training, a victim of the logic he respected beyond anything else. He was of the generation that does not come easily to concepts… Read More
“Pills” by Eliza Callard
Eliza Callard spends most of her time reading, writing, and trying to keep pace with her cystic fibrosis. She lives in the house she was born into with her wife and… Read More
“Time is a Horse” by Christine Gelineau
Christine Gelineau is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently Crave (NYQ Books, 2016), which has just been released. Her poetic sequence Appetite for the Divine was the Editor's… Read More
“Once by the Pacific” by Robert Frost
"I have to say that my Frost is not the Frost I seem to perceive existing in the minds of so many of his admirers. He is not the Frost who confounds… Read More
“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
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