“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
“An honest volume for dishonest times”: Caligulan as Not-Half-Bad Christmas Present
I'd be remiss if I didn't make at least a small seasonal push for my latest book Caligulan.… 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
“Neighborhood Watch” by Dora Malech
Dora Malech is the author of Say So (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011) and Shore Ordered Ocean (Waywiser Press, 2009). Her poems appear in publications that include The New Yorker, Poetry,… 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
“Dream Song 256” by John Berryman
"With The Dream Songs, published in 1969, the supposed continental divide between the Beats on the West Coast and the academic poets on the East closed. Like Whitman in 'Song of Myself,'… 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
“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
“Warning” by A.M. Juster
"This is one of those rare occasions when both the original and the imitation are sui generis—like Jackie Gleason and Fred Flintstone!" - Alfred Nicol… Read More
“The Evil One” by Håkan Sandell, Translated from the Swedish by Bill Coyle
Bill Coyle's poems and translations have appeared in journals including the Hudson Review, PN Review and Poetry. His first book of poetry, The God of This World to His Prophet, won the… Read More
“The Green Man” by Jim Harrison
”Mr. Harrison’s novels and poems over the last two decades have been increasingly preoccupied with mortality, never so much as in Dead Man’s Float, his very good new book of verse. Here… 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
Susan Spear’s Opera The Price of Pomegranates, Now with Video!
Poet and librettist Susan Spear studied with me in 2012, when I began teaching a course on the practical art of the opera libretto for the Western MFA poetry concentration. She began… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Bowdlerized at Long Last!
Until now, my poems have appeared whole or in parts, but not intentionally altered. At last, I am proud to have been slightly bowdlerized! … 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
“The Dogdays” by J.V. Cunningham
“Cunningham's (1911-1985) precisely bitter epigrams deserve more admirers. Like Ben Jonson's, Cunningham's best lines often state his moral or stylistic goals: ‘The classic indignation, / The sullen clarity / Of passions in… 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
“Light Illumined” by Ernest Hilbert
"As anti-pastoral as Hilbert can be, he shares Robert Frost’s commitment to describing impressions as precisely as possible, which may offer, as it did Robert Frost, a 'momentary stay against confusion,' even… 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