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
“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
“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
Excerpt from the Epic, Book-Length Poem Heimat by Quincy R. Lehr
Quincy R. Lehr is the author of several collections, as well as the imminently forthcoming Heimat. He is the associate editor of The Raintown Review, and he lives in Brooklyn, where he… Read More
“Night Moth” by George Witte
George Witte's poems have appeared in numerous journals and reprinted in the Best American Poets 2007 and other anthologies. He received the Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry magazine and a fellowship from… Read More
“1st September 1939” by Joseph Brodsky, Translated by Glyn Maxwell
"The day was called September the First."… Read More
“Delirium in Vera Cruz” by Malcolm Lowry
"Although his literary reputation rests primarily on his novels, Malcolm Lowry (1909-57) considered himself to be a poet, and he composed an extensive poetic canon. No reliable edition of Lowry's poetry currently… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads “Calavera for a Friend” at KGB Bar in New York City
Calculated to reflect the sixty minutes in an hour of heightened imaginative contemplation, the poems in Ernest Hilbert’s first book, Sixty Sonnets, contain memories of violence, historical episodes, humorous reflections, quiet despair,… Read More
“The Kitchen Weeps Onion” by James Arthur
"That feeling of becoming a new person in a different place, even if it's an illusion, is intoxicating to me, and always has been. I love writing about places, but only places… Read More
“The Graduate” by Kim Bridgford
Jay Parini has written that Kim Bridgford’s “work is rigorous and memorable, full of linguistic surprises and emotional twists that suggest, as she says, that there is an art in learning how… Read More
“Below the Nearer Sky” by Alex Lemon
Alex Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir (Scribner), the poetry collections Mosquito (Tin House Books), Hallelujah Blackout (Milkweed Editions), Fancy Beasts (forthcoming, Milkweed Editions), and the chapbook At Last Unfolding… Read More
“Notes for the Conquest” by Devon Bixler
Devon Bixler was raised in Blacksburg, Virginia and educated at NYU. He lives with his wife in Los Angeles, where he's pursuing a career as a high school History teacher.… Read More
“Descansos Negras” by Rick Mullin
Rick Mullin is the author of Soutine (2012), Huncke (2010) and Aquinas Flinched (2008). He works as an editor for the American Chemical Society.… Read More
“Dead Boy” by John Crowe Ransom
"Ransom's poetic world is mostly the South, not the South as it actually was when cotton and slavery were crowned heads, not the empirical South that the sociologists study today, but a… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads from All of You on the Good Earth at the New Jersey Poetry Festival
Ernest Hilbert Reads "Sunrise with Sea Monsters" and "Cover to Cover" from All of You on the Good Earth at the Tenth Annual New Jersey Poetry Festival, May 19, 2013. … Read More
“Ladies of the Roman Empire” by Devon Bixler
Devon Bixler was raised in Blacksburg, Virginia and educated at NYU. He lives with his wife in Los Angeles, where he's pursuing a career as a high school History teacher.… Read More
Composer Gabriel Kahane Sets Matthew Zapruder’s Poems from Come On All You Ghosts, Performed by La Jolla Music Society
"Composer Gabriel Kahane blurs the boundaries between popular and classical idioms with 'Come On All You Ghosts,' his setting of three poems by San Francisco-based Matthew Zapruder, for voice and string quartet."… Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Poem “Between Sides Seven and Eight of Die Walkure” in the Summer Issue of Listen! Magazine
Listen: Life with Classical Music is North America’s classical music magazine covering people, places and events; recommendations of recordings, books, and film; and all the many ways our lives are touched by… Read More
“In the Trance” by Brenda Hillman
"It is impossible to put boundaries on your words, even if you make a poem. Each word is a maze. So you are full of desire to make a memorable thing and… Read More
“Leather-Bound Road” by Luke Kennard
“His language is exciting and it feels to me that he’s a truly 21st-century writer, taking inspiration from all over the place, unafraid of barriers and conventions.” - Ian Mcmillan… Read More
“The Ungrateful Garden” by Carolyn Kizer
"We cannot do without Kizer and never could." - Los Angeles Times… Read More
“Left on Mission and Revenge” by Quincy Lehr (with Audio)
Quincy R. Lehr's collections include Across the Grid of Streets, Obscure Classics of English Progressive Rock, and Shadows and Gifts. He is the associate editor of The Raintown Review, and he lives… Read More
“Ye Goat-herd Gods” by Sir Philip Sidney
This past weekend, I attended the annual Goat Races held at the Slyfox Brewery out in the verdant home counties west of the city. I enjoyed a Helles Bock and laid out… Read More
Sonnet [“She came from Lebanon”] by Edward Clarke Set to Music by Corrado Fantoni
Poem by Edward Clarke set to music by Corrado Fantoni.… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads at Legendary Dante Hall in Atlantic City
Just behind the colossal casinos that loom and brood in cold fog from the ocean, tucked away on Atlantic Avenue, is the famous Dante Hall, where Aubrey Rahab Gerhardt continues her incredibly… Read More
“Who Killed Bambi?” by Quincy R. Lehr
Quincy R. Lehr's new collection, Shadows and Gifts, his first since 2012's Obscure Classics of English Progressive Rock, sees Lehr adopt a more visceral tone as he faces off against the economy,… Read More
Final Solutions: Ernest Hilbert Discusses Frederick Seidel’s Troubled First Collection
The latest issue of The Dark Horse contains new poems by the likes of David Mason, Jason Guriel, Nicholas Friedman, and Linda Besner. It also contains a selection of poets writing on… Read More
“Sea Poppies” by H.D.
Hilda Doolittle was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1886. She attended Bryn Mawr, as a classmate of Marianne Moore, and later the University of Pennsylvania where she befriended Ezra Pound… Read More
“Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin” by Frederick Seidel
This jungle poem is going to be my last. This space walk is. Racing in a cab through springtime Central Park, I kept my nose outside the window like a dog. The… Read More