“It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.” – Rod Serling
“‘Here’s to the winners,’ Frank Sinatra used to sing, belting out Joe Raposo’s lyrics as only a winner can. ‘Here’s to the winners all of us can be.’ Right, and if you… Read More
“I’m all for liberalism and social justice, but I draw the line at bad poetry.” – Preston Merchant
“The Rich Boy was written in 1925, as Fitzgerald waited for The Great Gatsby to be published. With the explosion of modernism, the 1920s were a watershed for storytelling. Behind this decade… Read More
“On the whole the modern poet leads the same kind of quietly exasperated, uneventful life that is the lot of most contemporary citizens.” – David Herd
“In recent years, memoir has consistently been among the bestselling genres in American publishing. Readers devour tales of drug abuse, incest, depression, and sundry other personal challenges — often too credulously, as… Read More
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“I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Einstein’s great work was over well before he was 40. Photos from that time show him as a nattily dressed young professor, though we’re more familiar with the image of the old… Read More
The Visionaries Behind E-Verse Radio
Host Ernest Hilbert is the editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review. His poetry has appeared in The New Republic, American Poet, The New Criterion, American Literary Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review,… Read More
“The cynics are right nine times out of ten.” – Henry Louis Mencken
“The injustice of it all. ‘I’ve seen the Stones many times,’ complained Joey Kramer, drummer for Aerosmith, a few years ago. ‘I don’t feel they play as good as we do. You’ve… Read More
“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” – Ingrid Bergman
“The study of social mobility is finally coming in from the cold (or at least from the Frigidaire of university sociology departments). A couple of years ago three of America’s leading newspapers… Read More
“I have an existential map; it has ‘you are here’ written all over it.” – Steven Wright
“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to… Read More
“The mistakes are all waiting to be made.” – Chess master Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
“When taking my fledgling steps toward literacy, I lived in a neighborhood with no library. Luckily, there was a bookmobile that came around every week. Each Tuesday night, I would borrow as… Read More
“American Income” by Afaa Michael Weaver
"Influenced by Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Michael Harper, and Jay Wright, Weaver writes poetry that engages the intersection of contemporary African American culture, the African American literary tradition, and the technical constraints… Read More