Ernest Hilbert’s “Great Bay Estuary” Featured on “How a Poem Happens”
My poem "Great Bay Estuary," from the collection Last One Out, is featured in the "How a Poem Happens" interview series, hosted by Brian Brodeur. … Read More
“The Tantrum” by Edward Clarke
Edward Clarke's A Book of Psalms will be published by Paraclete Press in April 2020. He presented Clarke’s Psalter, a documentary about writing these poems, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. He is… Read More
“What are Your Thoughts on Comedians Using the N-word?” by Marvin Thompson
Marvin Thompson was born in London to Jamaican parents and now teaches English in mountainous south Wales. He has an MA in Creative Writing and was one of three poets selected by… Read More
“Eloquence” by James Arthur
"An entrenched strangeness exists in Arthur's work, derived not from linguistic hijinks but from common observations ... his tone is casual and confident, the effect slightly off-frame or out of focus, yet… Read More
“No One Wants to Have Sex with Skeletor” by Quincy R. Lehr
Quincy R. Lehr’s most recent book is The Dark Lord of the Tiki Bar (2015). He lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches history, edits The Raintown Review, and subsists on a… Read More
“Myxomatosis” by Philip Larkin
In 1953 myxomatosis, a viral disease of rabbits, broke out in Britain for the first time. It rapidly killed tens of millions of the animals from Kent to the Shetlands. Many farmers… Read More
E-Verse Equinox Reading Series Relaunch Success!
Thanks to everyone who came out to Fergie's Pub to make the debut of E-Verse Equinox Reading Series 2.0 such a powerful success. We had a full room, around 30 people, which… Read More
“O Where Are You Going?” by W.H. Auden
"Words so excite me that a pornographic story, for example, excites me sexually more than a living person can do." - W. H. Auden… Read More
Librarians at War: Ernest Hilbert Reviews Kathy Peiss’s The Information Hunters in the Wall Street Journal
During World War II, librarians and archivists were eagerly recruited not only to gather intelligence from enemy media but also to collect and catalogue manuals and documents while embedded with units on… Read More
“Frankenstein’s Monster” by James Arthur
James Arthur was born in Connecticut and grew up in Canada. He is the author of the poetry collection The Suicide's Son (Véhicule Press 2019) and Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press… Read More
“Song of the Imaginary Friend” by George David Clark
George David Clark’s Reveille (Arkansas) received the 2015 Miller Williams Prize and his recent poems can be found in AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ecotone, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.… Read More
ANNOUNCING THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF THE E-VERSE EQUINOX READING SERIES!
E-Verse Equinox Reading Series is back! I kicked off the first E-Verse Equinox (what I’ll refer to as 1.0) series back in 2011, upstairs at Fergie’s Books, when Larry’s store was still… Read More
“What Was” by Tamara Oakman
Tamara Oakman, a neo-confessional writer and also English, writing, ESL and humanities professor, has had work appear in such magazines as Many Mountains Moving, Philadelphia Stories and Best of Anthology, Mad Poets… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads at Otto’s Shrunken Head in New York City
Hey, New York, I'll be reading this Sunday for the Carmine Street Metrics series at Otto's Shrunken Head. The event is free and open to the public. Philadelphia poet Luke Stromberg will… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reviews Kathleen Jamie in The Washington Post
I had the pleasure of reviewing Kathleen Jamie's latest colleciton of essays, Surfacing, for The Washington Post newspaper. … Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reviews The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to Justice by Hegnar Zitlaian Watenpaugh
Illuminated manuscripts, copied by hand and painstakingly adorned with vibrant colors and gold leaf, predate by centuries Gutenberg’s bible, printed around 1450 using moveable metal type. While such manuscripts are acquired by… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads with John Wall Barger at Shakespeare & Co.
Come out to hear Ernest Hilbert and John Wall Barger read from their latest books at Shakespeare & Co. near Rittenhouse Square. The event is free and open to the public. Stop… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Profiles Collector and Poet Dana Gioia for Fine Books & Collections Magazine
Many thanks to editor Rebecca Rego Barry at Fine Books & Collections magazine for running my six-page profile of poet and collector Dana Gioia in the new issue. Bob Dylan wound up… Read More
“Broad and Washington” by Ernest Hilbert
The BU Literary Society was founded as BU Students for Literary Awareness in the fall of 1997, under the leadership of Jennifer Herron. The group's original members meant to publish a magazine… Read More
“Christmas Eve: A Gloss” by David Livwell
David Livewell grew up in Philadelphia and won the 2012 T.S. Eliot Award for Poetry for Shackamaxon (Truman State University Press). He is now at work on a second collection.… Read More
“Christmas in Black Rock” by Robert Lowell
“I do think free will is sewn into everything we do; you can't cross a street, light a cigarette, drop saccharine in your coffee without really doing it. Yet the possible alternatives… Read More
“Raking” by David Yezzi
David Yezzi’s latest books of poetry are Birds of the Air and Black Sea (both in the Carnegie Mellon Poets Series). His verse play Schnauzer, produced by The Baltimore Poets Theater in… Read More
“Other Women Don’t Tell You” by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six years old. She is the author of The Many Names for Mother, winner the Wick Poetry Prize (Kent… Read More
“Alchemical Meditation” by Daniel Tobin
Daniel Tobin is the author of eight books of poems, Where the World is Made (University Press of New England, 1999), Double Life (Louisiana State University Press, 2004), The Narrows (Four Way… Read More
“Let it Leak! I’m All Aleak Myself”: Ernest Hilbert Reads from Moby-Dick
Join us as we read Herman Melville’s masterpiece Moby-Dick in its entirety over 25 hours, starting on Saturday, November 9 at 2:00 p.m. and reading through Sunday, November 10 at 3:00 p.m.… Read More
“Look Me in the Face Sonnet” by Thomas Devaney
Thomas Devaney is a poet and the author of You Are the Battery (Black Square Editions, 2019) and Getting to Philadelphia (Hanging Loose Press, 2019). He is the producer and co-director the… Read More
“The Costume Party” by Juliana Gray
Juliana Gray is the author of two acclaimed poetry collections and an associate professor of English at Alfred University.… Read More
“Four Weeks” by Dora Malech
DORA MALECH is the author of four books of poems, including Stet (Princeton University Press, 2018) and the forthcoming Flourish (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in publications that… Read More
“The Walls Speak” 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