“The Improved Binoculars” by Irving Layton
“I taught him how to dress; he taught me how to live forever." - Leonard Cohen … Read More
“Myth” by Muriel Rukeyser
"She is a radical politically, but she writes as a poet not a propagandist. When you hold this book in your hand you hold a living thing." - W. R. Benet… Read More
“At the Tomb of the Unknown President” by Tom Disch
"Tom Disch’s novels and poems may be applied as touchstones against cant and mealy-mouthed self-deception. Vigilance will be much harder with him gone." - David Yezzi… Read More
“The Muse and the Auctioneer’s Gavel: Learning About Poetry from First Editions” by Ernest Hilbert
The editors at Plume magazine in Canada asked me to supply a short piece on first editions of famous works of poetry for their Essays and Comment section. … Read More
“Two Portraits” by Ernest Hilbert in the Southwest Review
My poem "Two Portraits" appears in the new issue of the Southwest Review alongside poems by Denise Duhamel, A.M. Juster, Mary Jo Salter, Gerard Malanga, and others.… Read More
“The Music Crept By Us” by Leonard Cohen
“Leonard Cohen is a narcissist who hates himself.” - Irving Layton … Read More
“Ars Poetica #58” by Alexander Long
Alexander Long has published four chapbooks, most recently The Widening Spell (Q Avenue Press, 2016) & Lunch with Larry (Q Avenue Press, 2014). Long has also published three full collections of… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reviews Donald Hall’s Selected Poems in the Hopkins Review
"To write something as good as the poems that originally brought you to love the art. It’s the only sensible reason for writing poems,” Donald Hall declared in his early sixties in… Read More
“Advent is the Season to Save” by G.M. Palmer
G.M. Palmer lives with his wife and daughters on a poodle farm in North Florida. His writing can be found through www.gmpalmer.com and is on Twitter @gm_palmer… Read More
“Rural and Urban Welcome Signs” by Alexandra Kulik
Alexandra Kulik is a bag of multitudes living in suburban Chicagoland. She spends the better part of her time writing and walking aimlessly with her dog. … Read More
“Jane Austen Strolls the Upper Rooms” by Marly Youmans
Marly Youmans is the author of thirteen books of poetry and fiction. Her recent books of poetry include Thaliad and The Throne of Psyche. Recent novels are Maze of Blood, Glimmerglass, and… Read More
“Be Angry At The Sun” by Robinson Jeffers
"Of all the poets of his generation, [Robinson Jeffers] made our relation to this earth and sea and sky and wheeling seasons and the evolutionary processes that made trees and salmon… Read More
“Canoeing” and “Georgic” by Dara Mandle
Dara Mandle earned her BA in English from Yale, where she was awarded the Clapp Poetry Prize, and her MFA in poetry from Columbia. Her poems have appeared in Brooklyn Review, Painted… Read More
“From the Bottom Up” 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
“What The Chairman Told Tom” by Basil Bunting
"Basil Bunting's poems are an enduring measure of the craft itself, an abiding intelligence of all that 20th century poetry was about....What he wrote, stays." - Robert Creeley… Read More
“Remembering the Children of First Marriages” by Lucy Tunstall
Lucy Tunstall was born and grew up in London and now lives in Bristol with her two sons. Her debut collection The Republic of the Husband was released by Carcanet Press in… Read More
“Waning is now the sensual eye” by C. Day Lewis
"Day Lewis, poet laureate of England from 1968 to his death...had from early on, in addition to social outrage, a clear lyrical gift and impressive technical mastery." - Choice … Read More
“A Clock in the Square” by Adrienne Rich
“Poems are analogous to persons; the poems a reader will encounter in this book are neatly and modestly dressed, speak quietly but do not mumble, respect their elders but are not cowed… Read More
“Poem Begun on the Autumn Equinox” by Ernest Hilbert
"The American lyric rendered in these poems follows Coleridge’s description of the sonnet as 'adapted to the state of a man violently agitated by a real passion.' Hilbert’s passion here is… Read More
“Aubade” by Adam Crothers
Adam Crothers was born in Belfast in 1984, and lives in Cambridge. He is the author of Several Deer (Carcanet, 2016) and an editor for the online magazine The Literateur.… Read More
“On Not Writing as a West Indian Woman” by Vahni Capildeo
Born in Trinidad, Vahni Capildeo has lived in the UK since 1991. She is the author of the poetry collections Dark & Unaccustomed Words, No Traveller Returns, Person Animal Figure, and Undraining… Read More
“My Father’s Dante” by Ernest Hilbert
"Ernest Hilbert is known for the sonnet, and rightfully so. In Caligulan, he doesn’t so much break free of that but makes it clear that whatever he does, whether with subject, verse… Read More
“The King’s Bed” by Penny Boxall
Penny Boxall graduated from the University of East Anglia with an MA with distinction in Creative Writing (Poetry). Her debut collection, Ship of the Line, was published by Eyewear in 2014. She… Read More
“The Antikythera Mechanism” by Eric Thomas Norris
Eric Norris lives in Portlandia, USA. His poems and short stories have appeared in Soft Blow, Assaracus, Jonathan, The Nervous Breakdown, Glitterwolf, The Raintown Review, and E-Verse Radio.… Read More
“Bertrand Russell’s Chicken” by Nic Aubury
Nic Aubury was born in Watford in 1974 and grew up in the Midlands. He read Classics at Oxford and now teaches Latin and Greek for a living. He had a chapbook… Read More
“The Toadstone” by Reagan Upshaw
Reagan Upshaw is a poet and critic living in Beacon, NY. His poems, articles, and reviews have appeared in Bloomsbury Review, Boston Review, Hanging Loose, the San Francisco Chronicle, Light, Poets… Read More
“On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness” by Arthur Guiterman
Arthur Guiterman was born of American parents in Vienna, graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1891, and was married in 1909 to Vida Lindo. He was an… Read More
“Insomniac” by Rebecca Watts
Rebecca Watts was born in Suffolk, England in 1983 and now lives in Cambridge, where she works in a library and as a freelance editor. In 2015 a selection of her work… Read More
“How easy it was, to stand and look at the stars” by Ben Mazer
Ben Mazer was educated at Harvard University, where he studied with Seamus Heaney, and at the Editorial Institute, Boston University, where he studied under Christopher Ricks and Archie Burnett. His poem which… Read More
“We Are Experiencing Delay” by Caoilinn Hughes
Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes' first collection, Gathering Evidence, was published by Carcanet in 2014. She recently moved from New Zealand (where she completed her PhD at Victoria University of Wellington) to the… Read More