Ernest Hilbert with Brian Heston and Therese Halcheid
A Sunday Evening of Poetry with Ernest Hilbert, Brian Heston, and Therese Halchied Sunday, May 24, 7:30PM Tattooed Mom… Read More
“Dominion of the Parthians” by Ernest Hilbert
Ernest Hilbert received his doctorate in English Literature from Oxford University, where he edited the Oxford Quarterly and studied with Jon Stallworthy—biographer of Wilfred Owen and Louis MacNeice and editor of the… Read More
“Day in the Park” by Ernest Hilbert in the Best of the Asheville Poetry Review, 1994-2014 (with Audio!)
So nice to appear in such fine company, Borges and Boland, Niedecker and Oppen, Neruda and Patricia Smith, Gary Snyder and Alicia E Stallings, Billy Collins and Maryann Corbett, Michael Harper and… 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
Philip Levine at the NYS Writers Institute in 1996
The former Poet Laureate of the United States (2011-2012) Philip Levine died this weekend at the age of 87. Levine was best known for his poems about the American working class and… Read More
“Meteor” by Susan Delaney Spear
Susan Spear is the managing editor of Think, a journal of formal poetry, book reviews, and criticism housed at Western Colorado State University. She has published poems in Academic Questions, The Lyric,… Read More
“Portrait of a Stranger in Mt. Moriah Cemetery” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of the Battersea Review
The new issue of The Battersea Review is packed with all sorts of great things: Robert Archambeau reviews T.S. Eliot's Letters Vol. I; Saskia Hamilton reviews T.S. Eliot's Letters Vol. II;… Read More
“Mineral Point” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of Yale Review
Like Yale’s schools of music, drama, and architecture, like its libraries and art galleries, The Yale Review has helped give the University its leading place in American education. In a land of… 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
Mosh Pit at a Poetry Reading: Iron Reagan’s “Miserable Failure”
It's funny how poetry readings are used in movies, music videos, and televisions shows to establish a hushed, sanctimonious, precious atmosphere. Perhaps there's still something to that, which may explain why so… Read More
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
“Banking Hours” by Morri Creech
Morri Creech was born in Moncks Corner, S.C. in 1970 and was educated at Winthrop University and McNeese State University. He is the author of three collections of poetry, Paper Cathedrals (Kent… 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
“1st September 1939” by Joseph Brodsky, Translated by Glyn Maxwell
"The day was called September the First."… 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
“4AM Cab Ride” by Ernest Hilbert
Ernest Hilbert has written some of the most elegant poems in American literature since the loss of Anthony Hecht. A fascinating blend of the Augustan and romantic (an Augustanism that flirts with… Read More
Ernest Hilbert and Dave Young Interviewed on NPR-Affiliate WDIY 88.1 in the Lehigh Valley, Today at 3PM EST
Ernest Hilbert talks about his spoken word poetry album Elegies & Laments with the album's producer, Dave Young, owner of Pub Can Records in Philadelphia. Tune in and check it out!… 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
“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
“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