Listen to Christopher LaRosa’s Musical Setting of Ernest Hilbert’s Poem “Kite”
In 2016, Sara Wilkins commissioned composer Christopher LaRosa to write a piece for cello and voice. He selected Ernest Hilbert’s poem “Kite” for the text. The piece has been performed several times,… Read More
“Marginalia” by Katherine Barrett Swett
A high school English teacher, Katherine Barrett Swett lives in New York City. She received a PhD in American Literature from Columbia University. Her chapbook, Twenty-one was published by Finishing Line… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Book Party for Last One Out at the Grolier Club
Please join us to celebrate the publication of Ernest Hilbert’s latest collection of poems, Last One Out, in the second floor gallery at the fabled Grolier Club in New York City. Hilbert… Read More
“Looking Back in My Eighty-First Year” by Maxine Kumin
"Kumin always circles back to the giving land, the clasp of family, and her bedrock belief in the power of art." -Donna Seaman… Read More
“Nanners” by Kevin Cutrer
Kevin Cutrer is the author of the chapbook Mudança (Dos Madres, 2019), in which this poem appears, and the full length collection Lord's Own Anointed (Dos Madres, 2015). His poems and reviews… Read More
“Ah, Garlic” by Bernadette McBride
Its felicity’s infused in the preparation as much as in the aroma, its hearty tang on the tongue: the crispy little bulk of it in the palm, the satisfaction in each clove’s… Read More
“Errant Pastoral” by Amy Lemmon
Midwestern summers of my youth sprawled, protracted and stifling. How many days did I while away gazing at clouds, at blue sky through green leaves? How many nights longing for something I… Read More
“Platypus” by Les Murray
Les Murray, who died yesterday, was one of Australia's leading poets. He was the author of some thirty books of poetry, most recently Collected Poems (2018, Black Inc Publishing), On Bunyah… Read More
“In a Wooden Building” by Teow Lim Goh
Teow Lim Goh is the author of Islanders (Conundrum Press, 2016), a volume of poems on the history of Chinese exclusion at the Angel Island Immigration Station. Her work has been featured… Read More
“The Examiners” by John Whitworth
John Whitworth, who passed away this weekend, is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Joy in the Morning (Kelsay, 2016), and the editor of the anthology Making Love… Read More
“Dyeing the Easter Eggs” by A.E. Stallings
A.E. Stallings is the author of four books of poetry: Like, which is a 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Poetry; Archaic Smile, which won the Richard Wilbur Award; Hapax, which won… Read More
“The Last Mystery” by Jon Stallworthy
He knew that coastline—no man better— knew all its rocks and currents, like the veins and knuckles on the brown back of his hand; the leap-frog rollers and tall tons that batter… Read More
Watch Ernest Hilbert Read at the HOT L Open Poetry Series in Baltimore
It was a pleasure to read for the HOT L OPEN Baltimore reading series held at Bird in Hand bookstore and cafe on the campus of Johns Hopkins University, on April 14th,… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads with Rachel Uwada Clifford in Baltimore
Ernest Hilbert and Rachel Uwada Clifford Hosted by The HOT L Poets Series Bird in Hand Charles Village 11 E 33rd Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Facebook Event Page Rachael Uwada Clifford is… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads with Bernadette McBride for National Poetry Month
Ernest Hilbert reads with Bernadette McBride for National Poetry Month Saturday, April 27th, 2PMWhitman Stafford Farmhouse, 315 Maple Avenue, Laurel Springs, NJ 08021Sponsored by the Stratford Public Library The reading takes place… Read More
Last One Out is Face Out at the London Review Bookshop
The London Review Bookshop stocks my new book Last One Out. If you live in London, or passing through, stop by the shop at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, bookshop@lrbbookshop.co.uk, +44… Read More
“Man on the Moon” by Stephen Edgar
Stephen Edgar is an Australian poet, editor, and indexer. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including History of the Day (2009); The Red Sea: New & Selected Poems (2012);… Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s “We Make Mountains So We May Move Them” in Asheville Poetry Review
My poem “We Make Mountains So We May Move Them” appears with two others (“West River Notebook” and “In the Hidden Places”) in the fantastic 25th-anniversary issue of the Asheville Poetry Review,… Read More
“Spring” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
"America has two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay." - Thomas Hardy … Read More
“I Am Waiting” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Happy 100th birthday to Lawrence Ferlinghetti! Ferlinghetti is best known as the author of the 1958 poetry collection A Coney Island of the Mind, which has sold over a million copies, and… Read More
The Rumpus Features Ernest Hilbert’s Poem “Caligulan” in “The Last Poem I Loved Series”
The Rumpus series The Last Poem I Loved series featured Ernest Hilbert’s poem “Caligulan” as its latest installment: Hilbert’s book, Caligulan (Measure Press, 2015), came out a year before the last presidential… Read More
“Chosen by the Lion” by Linda Gregg
Linda Gregg passed away on March 19, 2019. She was the author of several books of poetry, including Too Bright to See (Graywolf Press, 1981), Alma (Random House, 1985), Things and Flesh (Graywolf… Read More
Listen to Ernest Hilbert Read from Last One Out at the Rosenbach Museum & Library
On the Eve of the Ides of March, 2019, Ernest Hilbert read from his book Last One Out for the first time during an event at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in… Read More
“Donal Óg” by Lady Augusta Gregory
Read an anonymous eighth-century Irish poem translated into English and watch a clip of Sean McClory reciting the poem from John Huston's 1987 film The Dead. … Read More
“For a Coming Extinction” by W.S. Merwin
W.S. Merwin, who passed away at his home in Hawaii on March 15, 2019, was one of the most highly regarded poets in the United States. In his long career, he published… Read More
“Reading James Baldwin on My Lunch Hour” by Brooke Palma
Brooke Palma grew up in Philadelphia and currently lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania. An office manager by day and poet by night, she has been published in The Mad Poets’ Review,… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Publication Party for His New Book Last One Out at The Rosenbach
Join us for a conversation with Ernest Hilbert about his new book of poems, Last One Out. This new volume traces the poet’s life from childhood memories of his father, both elegiac… Read More
“A Butt” by Adam Crothers
Adam Crothers was born in Belfast in 1984, and works in a library in Cambridge. His first collection of poems, Several Deer (Carcanet, 2016), won the 2017 Shine/Strong Poetry Award and the… Read More
“Colossus, also called The Upside (Manic Phase)” by Rick Mullin
Heart like a bee hive, mind like a Kasai pagoda, I am Theodore Roosevelt in a Marcus Aurelius onesie, built for the long game, coming any minute over a hill near you.… Read More
“Song: To Celia” by Ben Jonson
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I’ll not look for wine. The thirst that… Read More
“On the Flood Plain” by Edward Clarke
Those things you fear, they have already happened, Inside my contemplative soul, Which left its bed, and came downstairs, to calm Something I thought… Read More