Works Cited: A New Poetry Podcast
It's a gritty, downright underground project right now, and I hope it catches on. I'm told they have the entire first season recorded, so we have much more to look forward to.… Read More
What Lurks Down There? Ernest Hilbert’s Dark Web Magazine, Cocytus
What’s lurking out there on the infamous Dark Web? A lot of unsavory activity and characters, to be sure. But poets? It’s already got a reputation for hiding the worst human activity,… Read More
Don’t Miss Poets Ryan Wilson and James Matthew Wilson at the Free Library
Ryan Wilson, author of The Stranger World and James Matthew Wilson, author of Some Permanent Things at The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine St., Room 108, Monday, October 2nd, 6:30PM… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads in DC for “Lunch Poems: Readings from The Hopkins Review”
Lunch Poems: Readings from The Hopkins Review Featuring Ernest Hilbert, Helena Chung, Natalie Shapero, Erica Dawson, and Mark Halliday The Loft @ Busboys and Poets 5th & K Streets 1025 5th Street… 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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