Archive for 'Ernie'
“SUCH ROOT SATISFACTION . . .”: SIGNED LIMITED TÊTE-BÊCHE EDITION OF THE SECOND BOOK BY DAVID YEZZI AND ERNEST HILBERT
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Full Story“The types and symbols of Eternity, / Of first and last, and midst, and without end,” or, Rocky Mountain High
Share In addition to giving a reading and delivering a critical paper out in Colorado, I found time to get out into some back country (though it would be more honest to say I was gently hauled out into it). The first day I climbed with poets Charles Doersch and David Yezzi up to the [...]
Full Story“Well Known Antiquarian?”: Hilbert Name-Dropped in Forbes Article about Chelsea Clinton’s Pre-Wedding Shopping
Share I just returned from many mountains and martinis in Colorado to find I’ve been cited as a “well known antiquarian” by Forbes. I’ve rarely encountered anyone described as an “antiquarian” outside of an H.P. Lovecraft story. Strange. I hear my colleagues had a good laugh about that over cocktails on the terrace last week. [...]
Full StoryPimp 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!
Full StoryOff to the Rockies!
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“I’ll get ballistic on occasion when I realize more people know the work of J. Lo than the work of Alice Munro”: Ernest Hilbert Interviews Novelist Lewis Robinson
Share I interviewed Lewis Robinson back in 2003, when his collection of short stories, Officer Friendly, was published. The interview originally appeared in nowCulture magazine. Ernest Hilbert: Most of the stories in Officer Friendly are set in areas like Point Allison and Cuxabexis. Can you talk a bit about the settings? Lewis Robinson: Setting is [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert interviews novelist Jennifer Egan about her book Look at Me
Share Jennifer Egan’s new book A Visit from the Goon Squad is reviewed on the cover of this week’s New York Times Book Review. Here’s an interview I conducted with Ms. Egan back in 2002 on her best-selling novel Look at Me. Ernest Hilbert: What are your principal influences? Jennifer Egan: That’s such a hard [...]
Full StoryLemmy, Vince Neil, and . . . Sixty Sonnets Rocking at the Rainbow Room on Sunset
Share An E-Verser sent this in: I thought you might like this. I was at the Rainbow in LA last week and saw this in the bathroom . . .
Full StoryBack from London
Share I’m back from London. Sorry for the reduced postings over the past week and a half. But not to fear: I’m back at the helm. Oh, and Paul was having everyone on with one of the posts he did while I was gone. . . . My reading at the Lamb, in Holborn, went [...]
Full StoryRead (and Hear) Ernest Hilbert’s Poem “Wife of the Zeppelin Scientist” in the New Issue of 14 by 14 Magazine
Share Head on over to 14 by 14 by clicking here. You may listen to a recording of the poem by using the player below the text. The recording was made by Dave Young for Pub Can Records and 14 by 14 at Widget Studios.
Full StoryErnest Hilbert the Rooster Overthrown
Share It seems that Ernest Hilbert, a proud, fine bird named after the poet and blogger, was recently diminished before his hens. He was chased through the dewy heather by a pair of determined, sapphire-coated peacocks. No longer such an alpha male! Chin up, Ernest Hilbert. You’ll one day rule the roost again.
Full Story“40 Years of Villany”: De-Motivational Hilbert Posters
Share My lovely and talented coworkers found some embarrassing old photos of me and used them to devise de-Motivational posters for my birthday. Don’t you wish you had coworkers like these? This is a small sampling of the posters that hung all over the building last Friday. A note on this next one. My modeling [...]
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, [...]
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Another Photograph of the Ne’re Do Well Young Ernest Hilbert Surfaces
Share Here I am, a ratty teen, posing with two friends on the wall of our high school. We probably tried to burn it down earlier that day. I’m the cocky one with arms folded, head tilted rakishly back. To my left is my then-lead singer Kyle and one of our classic road buddies Bill Smith. Thanks to “Jim [...]
Full StoryRoll Over Chaunticleer: Introducing “Ernest Hilbert” the Rooster!
Share My good friend Christian keeps chickens (and a big library) on his compound in Massachusetts. His latest addition is a cocky macho rooster named “Ernest Hilbert,” who now rules the roost. I’m told he’s a handful, and Christian has had serious trouble wrangling him. I now have a car named after me (the contessa’s [...]
Full StorySubscribe to “Ernest Hilbert” on iTunes!
Share You may now subscribe to “Ernest Hilbert” on iTunes (free, of course), to get regular podcasts that include episodes of E-Verse Radio (when Paul and I find time to make them), live readings, studio recordings, and other fun things. Just go to the iTunes store, type in Ernest Hilbert, and click “subscribe.” It will [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert Reads “Two Portraits” from Aim Your Arrows at the Sun
Share Love Among the Ruins, or LATR, is a small press named after the unfinished Evelyn Waugh novel and based in New York City. It was founded in Summer 2009 by editors Daniel Lin and Margaret Monaghan. Click here for more information or to purchase Aim Your Arrows at the Sun by Ernest Hilbert. [...]
Full StoryXaipe
Share Here is one of our cats, Xaipe. She’s a little killer. Pure evil. Her mother was pregnant with Xaipe and her siblings when we rescued her and found homes for all kittens (and mom). Her name is a Greek salutation, akin to “rejoice” in English, and it is one of the longest continually-used greetings [...]
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 StoryWinners of the Tollund 2010 Poetry Prize Contest
Share The Tollund Group has announced winners in its first annual poetry translation prize: We are proud to announce the winners of the Tollund 2010 Poetry Prize Contest. The challenge was to recreate the words of a particular sonnet in the Nordic languages. This contest was different from other poetry translation contests in that it [...]
Full Story“It’s a Horror Poem”: Comment on “While You Were Out”
Share Over at his blog, Noise for Its Own Sake, Justin Hamm commented on my poem “While You Were Out“: There’s so much quality poetry out there these days that it’s impossible to keep up with everything, but I’d like to link to a handful of poems that’ve really resonated for me lately. The first, [...]
Full StoryJersey Shore Before MTV’s “Jersey Shore”, or, Before Snooki There Was Ernie
Share I have developed the unshakable habit of calling the impish, overnight-star of “Jersey Shore” something like “Smoochi” or “Snoopy” when compelled to discuss the show in polite company. It seems I can only devote so much of my brain to information about people who haven’t actually done anything. E-Verse assistant producer Kara, one of [...]
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 StoryErnest Hilbert’s Poem “While You Were Out” Read by X.J. Kennedy in the New Issue of LineBreak Magazine
Share Click here to head over to Ashley Anna McHugh’s indispensable online audio poetry magazine LineBreak to hear elder statesman Mr. X.J. Kennedy deliver a reading of my poem “While You Were Out,” from my forthcoming collection All of You on the Good Earth. You may stream directly from the site. This recording will also [...]
Full StoryE-Verse is Snowed In!
Share It’s really picking up now, so we have snow, which was already on a layer of snow, and between a nice shanking of icy rain just to make it that much nicer. But being snowed in for the day isn’t so bad when one has books, and grub, and coffee, and cool cats, and [...]
Full Story“Enemies and Co.” by Ernest Hilbert, in The Oxonian Review
Share After Cyril Connolly So many, the enemies of promise. They’re everywhere. Larkin imagined a toad, Squatting on the back, weighing us down, called work. You’re smothered half to death by false kindness. The temp job stinks. They increased your workload. Lunch talk is dry and spiteful. You grip your fork While they jaw about [...]
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 StoryHilbert Returns from New England Having Vanquished Many Herring
Share From Oxford to Boxford! I managed to consume 13 courses of herring (followed by many other Danish delicacies and much aquavit and wine). E-Verser Patrick celebrated my return to the City of Brotherly Love with a cartoon. Check out the full menu, below. A six hour feast that left many hundreds of dead soldiers [...]
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