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Fall Schedule Unveiled for KGB Bar Poetry!
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Share By the time this post goes live I will have finished a late-night “beer” reading at Earth and managed to get up at 5AM to fly out for Denver. I may be yonder over your head at this very moment. From Denver I’ll be driven by a genuine madman five hours up to Crested [...]
Full Story“Written art meets liquid art” at Earth, Bread, and Brewery: Ernest Hilbert with Teresa Leo and Christine Klocek-Lim
Share Earth Bread & Brewery: Where written art meets liquid art 7136 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia (Mt. Airy) Wednesday, July 28th 2010 Time: 9-11pm HOSTED BY THINK JOURNAL EDITOR CHRISTINE YURICK Time: 9-11pm Featuring Philadelphia poets: Ernest Hilbert, Teresa Leo, and Christine Klocek-Lim, with an open mic session starting at 10pm. Ernest Hilbert’s debut collection Sixty [...]
Full StoryRed Hen’s 16th Anniversary Champagne Luncheon featuring Toi Derricotte, Christopher Rice and Yusef Komunyakaa
Share Red Hen Press would like to invite you to our most important event of the year: our 16th Anniversary Champagne Luncheon at the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles on November 7, 2010. As a major fundraiser for the press and for our Writing in the Schools program, this spectacular event will feature conversations with [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert Reads with Deborah Fries at the Green Line in Philadelphia
Share Ernest Hilbert with Deborah Fries, hosted by Leonard Gontarek Note: this is not the Green Line Café on Clark Park. It is a second location on the corner of 45th and Locust. Green Line Café Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 7-8PM 4426 Locust Street, corner of 45th and Locust Philadelphia, PA 19104 215-222-0799 TRANSIT: Green [...]
Full StoryPoets Down the Pub: Ernest Hilbert with Richard Price, Katy Evans-Bush, and Jon Stone
“Poets Down the Pub”: Ernest Hilbert reads with Richard Price, Katy Evans-Bush, and Jon Stone at the famous Lamb Pub, Monday, May 31st, 2010, 7:00-9:00 PM
Full StoryCome celebrate the release of E-Verser Pat Aulisio’s new comic
Come celebrate the release of E-Verser Pat Aulisio’s new comic with an all comic art show with works by Box Brown, Hawk Krall, Ian Harker, and Lance Hansen.
Full StoryE-Verser Alfred Nicol Interviewed on “Cover to Cover” on WNZF
Share Frank Gromling speaks with Alfred Nicol on his radio program, “Cover to Cover,” on WNZF in Florida, to discuss the melopoeia series Alfred worked on with classical guitarist John Tavano and poet Rhina Espaillat. The program airs at 11:30 Eastern on Saturday morning on WNZF. It will also be archived on www.oceanpublishing.org/podcast.html Here is [...]
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Catch Conor McPherson’s Shining City at Theatre Exile!
Share Shining City, April 7, 2010 – April 25, 2010 By Conor McPherson Theatre Exile will close the season with the Philadelphia premiere of Shining City by Conor McPherson, the award-winning playwright of The Weir and The Seafarer. Two men meet as doctor and patient in a small office in Dublin. The patient, John, is [...]
Full StorySheep Meadow Press Presents Stephanos Papadopoulos and Christopher Bakken, Tonight Only!
Share Thursday, April 1st at 7PM Founded in 1977, Sheep Meadow is a non-profit press dedicated to poetry, poets, and books of particular interest to poets. Sheep Meadow is attracted to poets of great merit who for one reason or another have been turned away from commercial publishers. Unobtrusively but decisively, Stephanos Papadopoulos’ work is [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert with Tim Green at the Ruskin Arts Club, Los Angeles
Share RED HEN PRESS PRESENTS POETS ERNEST HILBERT AND TIM GREEN Sunday, April 11, 2010 2:00PM The Ruskin Art Club 800 S. Plymouth Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90005 310.669.2369 or 818.831.0649 Admission: General $10 Students & Seniors $5 Timothy Green was born in Upstate New York in 1980. American Fractal is his first book-length collection [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert, with Caleb Barber and novelist Dave King, at the Bowery Poetry Club
Share Hey, stop by the Bowery Poetry Club on Wednesday, March 31st, for an evening of new American writers. Click here for the Academy of American Poets listing. Ernest Hilbert with poet Caleb Barber and Dave King, author of the best-selling The Ha-Ha, soon to be a major motion picture starring Josh Brolin. March 31, [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert with Jill Alexander Essbaum at West Chester Poets House
Share West Chester Poets House Presents Ernest Hilbert with Jill Alexander Essbaum Wednesday, March 24th 823 S. High Street Poets House, West Chester University West Chester, PA 19383 610-436-3235 poetry@wcupa.edu FREE “Few poets’ roots go deeper than the Romantics; Jill Alexander Essbaum’s reach all the way to the Elizabethans. In her Harlot one hears Herbert [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert and Jericho Brown at Frequency North
Share Thursday, March 18th, 2010, 7:30PM College of St. Rose and Frequency North Present: An evening of poetry with Ernest Hilbert and Jericho Brown Events and Athletics Center, Second Floor 420 Western Ave. Albany, NY 12203 “Your Body Made Heavy with Gin” by Jericho Brown I can relax. I smell liquor on your breath. Soon [...]
Full Story2010 Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
Novelists, biographers, historians, poets, critics, politicians, soldiers, public servants, scientists, and medics will be joined by artists, philosophers, theologians, architects, engineers, botanists, environmentalists and children’s writers.
Full StoryTell and Show: An Exhibition of Philadelphia Area Comic Artists
Share Curated by Pete Stathis in conjunction with The Free Library of Philadelphia’s One Book One Philadelphia 2010 series of events. “In recent years, the once sidelined subculture of comics has rocketed to a center-stage position in our bookstores, movie theaters, and popular consciousness. Come explore the power of this immediate and entertaining art form [...]
Full StoryUpcoming Readings for Ernest Hilbert
Share What follows is merely a thumbnail sketch of my readings for the first half of the year. More may be added, and you should certainly double-check the details (time, for instance, and lineup) closer to the dates to be sure of what you’ll be getting yourself into. I hope to see you at one [...]
Full StoryErica Wants to Know What Typeface You Are
Share Turn up your speakers and take this little quiz to find out what typeface you are. Use the password “character” to get started. It’s good fun!
Full StoryRecording of Ben Downing, Ernest Hilbert, and Adam Kirsch reading at the Grolier Club for the publication of the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets
Share Rachel Wetzsteon was scheduled to read with us that evening (December 2nd, 2009). She was unable to attend. Callie Siskel read one of her poems. Have a listen.
Full StoryErnest Hilbert Reads With Ben Downing, Adam Kirsch, and Rachel Wetzsteon
Share The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, edited by David Yezzi, invites you to an evening of poetry Seating is limited and the event is nearly sold out! Please RSVP to Callie Siskel: siskel@newcriterion.com or 212-247-6980 Wednesday, December 2, 2009 Reception at 6:00 Remarks at 6:30 Readings by Ernest Hilbert, Ben Downing, Adam Kirsch, [...]
Full StoryThe Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, edited by David Yezzi, invites you to an evening of poetry
Share Wednesday, December 2, 2009 Reception at 6:00 Remarks at 6:30 Readings by Ernest Hilbert, Ben Downing, Adam Kirsch, and Rachel Wetzsteon The Grolier Club 47 East 60th Street New York, NY Space is limited! RSVP to Callie Siskel: siskel@newcriterion.com or 212-247-6980
Full StoryOff to Beantown!
Share I’ll be rocketting up the east coast first thing tomorrow morning. I’m reading at the Pierre Menard Gallery on Harvard Square at 7PM Thursday night. Stop by if you can. Also stop by the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Hynes Convention Center.
Full StoryKara’s Latest Creation: a Poster for Ernest Hilbert’s Reading with Mark Schorr at the Pierre Menard Gallery
Share Kara’s done it again! She’s made a lovely poster, limited to 12 copies signed by authors and promoters, for Ernest Hilbert’s reading at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, MA. Check it out! “I WOULDN’T WORRY ABOUT IT . . . IT’S NOT A BIG COLLEGE TOWN” LIMITED EDITION SIGNED POSTER ADVERTISING ERNEST HILBERT [...]
Full StoryRemastered Head House Books Reading
Share My reading from Head House Books in April 2009, recorded by Juddith Redding, has been mastered by Dave Young at Widget Studios for Pub Can Records. You may listen to it on iTunes or by clicking here. It was a lovely evening and a very warm crowd, so I commend you to listen if [...]
Full StoryTwo Hilbert Readings the Week of November 8th
Share Hey, E-Versers, stop by and say hi, have a beer, and enjoy some poetry if you’re in either of these areas. Painted Bride Quarterly presents Ernest Hilbert and Lynn Levin Tuesday November 10th, 2009, 7:30 p.m. Bubble House, 3404 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-3404 Phone: 215.243.0804 www.thebubblehouse.com FREE The Boston Poetry Union presents Ernest [...]
Full StoryThanks to everyone for coming out last night!
Share Many thanks to the more than one hundred people who turned out for the reading at Melville House Books in Brooklyn last night for the launch of Aim Your Arrows at the Sun and Heather Green’s No Omen. The combination of plentiful Tecate beer and no public restrooms strained the crowd to its limit, [...]
Full StoryOne more day to pre-order Ernest Hilbert’s new chapbook Aim Your Arrows at the Sun at a reduced rate!
Share Pre-order Aim Your Arrows at the Sun for $12 ($20 after official publication tomorrow). Write directly to editor Daniel Lin at daniel@loveamongtheruins.com. For more information about the press and the party, please visit their website. You are invited to the launch party (free beer and wine!) at Melville House Books in DUMBO Brooklyn, Wednesday [...]
Full StoryLaunch Party for Ernest Hilbert’s Aim Your Arrows at the Sun
Share Head on out to Melville House Books in DUMBO Brooklyn to hear Ernest Hilbert read at the launch party for his new chapbook, Aim Your Arrows at the Sun (LATR Editions, 2009, foreword by Adam Kirsch), which will be issued in an edition of 250 hand-sewn copies. Heather Green will read from her new [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert with Sharon Mesmer at KGB Bar, Monday, October 19th, 7:30PM
Share “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier . . . Poet?” Ernest Hilbert reads with Sharon Mesmer KGB Bar 85 E. 4th St. at Second Avenue, 2nd fl New York, NY 10003 Telephone: 212-505-3360 Monday, October 19th, 7PM FREE TO ALL COMERS! “Juan Valdez Has a Little Juan Valdez (i.e., Energy Cannon) in His Pants” by Sharon Mesmer [...]
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