“New Jersey” by BJ Ward
"In poems that both honor and transcend his blue-collar roots, BJ Ward blends poignancy and humor with downright good storytelling, and takes his place among the bright up-and-coming voices of his generation."… Read More
“Spell for an Orchard” by John Clegg
John Clegg was born in Chester in 1986 and grew up in Cambridge. He studied for a PhD at Durham University. In 2013, he received an Eric Gregory Award. His first collection,… Read More
“Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” by Robert Archambeau
Robert Archambeau is a poet and literary critic whose works include the books Citation Suite, Home and Variations, Laureates and Heretics, The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World, and The Kafka… Read More
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“The Drinker” by Robert Lowell
"The subjects of these poems will eventually become extinct, like all other natural species devoured by time, but the indelible mark of their impression on a single sensibility will remain, in Lowell's… Read More
“Death Under Glass” by Weldon Kees
"Others have called themselves Apocalyptics; Kees lived in a permanent and hopeless apocalypse." - Kenneth Rexroth … 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
“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
Recent Publications and Radio Appearances by Ernest Hilbert
Here's a brief post to advertise some things I've been doing lately. What better time to do a roundup than in the very doldrums of summer? Stay cool, if you can, and… Read More
“At The Chophouse” by David M. Katz
David M. Katz is the author of three books of poems: Stanzas on Oz, Poems 2011-2014 (Dos Madres Press), Claims of Home, Poems 1984- 2010 (Dos Madres Press), and The Warrior in… Read More
Excerpt from It’s Time by Frank Sherlock
Frank Sherlock is the Poet Laureate of the City of Philadelphia, and was a Pew Fellow in the Arts for 2013. His books include Over Here; The City Real and Imagined; and… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads with Daniel Tobin at the Cambridge Public Library
Ernest Hilbert Reads with Daniel Tobin, Thursday, November 13th at 6:30PM, Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, Hosted by Daniel Wuenschel, introductions by Bill Coyle… Read More