Archive for 'Sixty Sonnets'
Pimp My Axe!: Sixty Sonnets Guitar
An E-Verser sends in a picture of a Sixty Sonnets sticker that made it onto a guitar. Rock on!
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Full StoryWhat Other Books Do Sixty Sonnets Readers Like?
Share I am an Amazon aficionado. I think Bezos and co. pioneered many useful tools for online book-buying. One of them is the function that allows a reader or author to see what “other” books their readers are buying. Here’s a rundown of what buyers of Sixty Sonnets have been picking up lately. What? You [...]
Full StoryLevi Stahl Urges Ernest Hilbert to Write a Noir Novel-in-Verse over at Quarterly Conversation
Share Mr. Stahl, poetry editor for Quarterly Conversation, writes on their new blog, Constant Conversation: Even the least money-conscious among us has a fantasy about what he’d do if he came into a windfall of absurd proportions, right? A trip around the world? An apartment in Tokyo? A shelf full of rare first editions? Me, [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert Reads “Coil” from Sixty Sonnets
Share Click To Play Recorded at Widget Studios, Philadelphia, PA, engineered and produced by Dave Young for Pub Can Records. ©2009
Full StorySixty Sonnets Stickers all over the Place
Share Here’s one spotted at the Joyce Kilmer rest stop (yeah, I put it there), one of many rest stops around the US named after poets: “I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree.” Or as lovely as this rest stop. Mike Chasar over at Poetry and Popular Culture [...]
Full StorySixty Sonnets Selected as Book of the Year (Poetry) by ivebeenreadinglately.com
Share From ivebeenreadinglately.com: Ernest Hilbert’s Sixty Sonnets is exactly what its title suggests—and thus it’s a performance as much as a book of poems, showy and spectacular. From the brisk noir of “She Remembers How They Fled from the Liquor Store Robbery in New Mexico”— You’d been shot three times, soaked with tar and sweat, [...]
Full StoryRecording of Ernest Hilbert Reading Three Poems at Swope Music Hall
Share Click on the image below to hear a high-quality audio recording of Ernest Hilbert reading three poems from Sixty Sonnets at Swope Music Hall, June 2009: “Prophetic Outlook,” “Domestic Situation,” and “Calavera for a Friend.” Recorded and engineered by Bob Rust.
Full StoryYou don’t have a copy of Sixty Sonnets yet? What are you waiting for?
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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 StoryErnest Hilbert Reads “The Retired Literary Critic Pauses in his Sunday Reading” from Sixty Sonnets
Share Click To Play Recorded at Widget Studios, Philadelphia, PA, engineered and produced by Dave Young for Pub Can Records. ©2009
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 [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert reads “Magnificent Frigatebird”
Share Click To Play Recorded at Widget Studios, Philadelphia, PA, engineered and produced by Dave Young for Pub Can Records. ©2009
Full StoryErnest Hilbert Reads “William James Still, Drowned in the Delaware River” from Sixty Sonnets
Share Click To Play Recorded at Widget Studios, Philadelphia, PA, engineered and produced by Dave Young for Pub Can Records. ©2009
Full StoryListen to Ernest Hilbert on Joe Milford’s Radio Show
Share I appeared live on Joe Milford’s poetry radio show last night. It was great fun, and we wound up going for an hour and a half! It’s been archived, so you can hear it now or whenever you like. Click on the image below or here to listen to show. I read poems from [...]
Full StoryWhat Else Are Sixty Sonnets Readers Buying?
Share Now that I have a book in the marketplace, I must admit I’m quite taken with the Amazon feature that displays what recent buyers have purchased in addition to mine. It’s not a terribly surprising list, but it’s worth a look. Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet by Christian Wiman Elegy: Poems by Mary [...]
Full Story“Jawohl, y’all!”: Change of Date for Ernest Hilbert’s Reading with Jill Alexander Essbaum
Share So here’s the skinny: My reading with Jill Alexander Essbaum, originally scheduled for November 11th at the West Chester Poets House, has changed. It is now on March 25th, 2010, same venue. “Your Brain on Poetry” Or “She’s Bad . . . He’s Worse!” Ernest Hilbert reads with Jill Alexander Essbaum Poetry House West [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert Readings for Fall 2009
Share Here are the readings I have booked so far for the fall. I will also be reading at a launch party for LATR Editions at an art gallery in Brooklyn in November. More details on that as they emerge. Monday, September 14th, 7PM “You Can’t Put a Piranha in a Piano” Ernest Hilbert reads [...]
Full StoryThe Poetry Foundation Reprints Three of Ernest Hilbert’s Sonnets
Share The Poetry Foundation has posted three of my poems from Sixty Sonnets, “AAA Vacation Guide,” “Domestic Situation,” and “Prophetic Outlook.” Two of these poems were published in the American Poetry Review and later appeared on the Best American Poetry website. “AAA Vacation Guide” has never appeared in a magazine, but it was featured on [...]
Full Story“An Intriguing Mishmash of Subjects”: Bookslut Reviews Ernest Hilbert’s Sixty Sonnets
Share It is this very “temporal frame” of the sonnet, and the tempus fugit theme so often explored, that engages Ernest Hilbert in his debut book Sixty Sonnets. Time, history, death are on Hilbert’s mind throughout the collection, as in “Genealogies,” in which he wonders “What strange folk” preceded him, and “What turnpikes of genealogy [...]
Full StorySixty Sonnets Reviewed in RATTLE Magazine
Share One look at the cover of Sixty Sonnets lets you know you’re dealing with a poet who’s got both slyness and chutzpah—at least if poet Ernest Hilbert and cover designer Jennifer Mercer worked closely together, and the acknowledgments suggest that they did. The cover design parodies the staid, pale dignity of a classical music [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert reads “Dear Plato” from Sixty Sonnets
Share Click To Play Recorded at Widget Studios, Philadelphia, PA, engineered and produced by Dave Young for Pub Can Records. ©2009
Full StoryErnest Hilbert Reads “The Pessimist Prepares for What May Well Be His Last Winter” from Sixty Sonnets
Share Click To Play Recorded at Widget Studios, Philadelphia, PA, engineered and produced by Dave Young for Pub Can Records. ©2009
Full StoryErnest Hilbert Reads “Love Poem” from Sixty Sonnets
Share Click To Play Recorded at Widget Studios, Philadelphia, PA, engineered and produced by Dave Young for Pub Can Records. ©2009
Full Story“Reclaim the Sonnet!” in London
Fourteen poets read sonnets, traditional and experimental.
Full StoryErnest Hilbert Reads “Song” from Sixty Sonnets
Share Click To Play Recorded at Widget Studios, Philadelphia, PA, engineered and produced by Dave Young for Pub Can Records. ©2009
Full StoryErnest Hilbert Reads “In Bed for a Week” from Sixty Sonnets
Share Click To Play Recorded at Widget Studios, Philadelphia, PA, engineered and produced by Dave Young for Pub Can Records. ©2009
Full StoryErnest Hilbert Radio Interview on WDIY (Listen Here Now!)
Share In a radio interview that aired on Monday, June 15th, from NPR-affiliate station WDIY, host George van Doren talks with poet Ernest Hilbert about his new book, Sixty Sonnets, the history of the sonnet, what makes a poem work, and the reasons why people read poetry. Listen now by clicking here. High quality recording. [...]
Full StoryRecordings from Sixty Sonnets
Share If you’d like to hear a few studio-quality readings from poems in my book Sixty Sonnets, just head over to the audio page of the book’s website by clicking here or on the book cover below. Enjoy!
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