Witness the Death of Mercury Radio Theater (with Promo and Movie Featuring Ernest Hilbert)!
Unfortunately I'll be in LA this night, but I'll be up on the big screen over the band! Check out the video. … Read More
“Road Rage” by Nick Khoo
"Dedicated to all those jerks who cut me off on the road. You know who you are . . . Animated in After Effects."… Read More
“Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” by Fleet Foxes Drummer Joshua Tillman’s New Project Father John Misty Featuring Aubrey Plaza
Aubrey Plaza has perfected the bored, disappointed, disapproving pout on Parks & Rec, but on the new video for Father John Misty we get to see her making every possible face as… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Name-Checked in TLS
Odd to see your name in print when you're not expecting it. … Read More
“Among Philistines” by R.S. Gwynn
Poet, scholar, editor, and critic R.S. Gwynn was born in Eden, North Carolina. He received a BA from Davidson College, where he twice won the Vereen Bell Award for Creative Writing, and… Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Introduction to Four Charles Dickens Novels, Issued in the Canterbury Classics Series
Yeah, you might even see me in Sam's Club. … Read More
Yes You Really Can Take It With You! Part 2, the Extreme Bookcase
Cynthia brings us a bookshelf that doubles . . . as your coffin. … Read More
Yes You Really Can Take It With You, Part 1
Cynthia shows us how we can take our books with us wherever we go (no Kindle jokes!). … Read More
Get Ready to Wwwaaaaaste Some Tiiiiiiiiiime: 25 More of the Most Interesting Wikipedia Pages
Yeah, you thought you were going to get some work done today . . . … Read More
Poe for kids? You bet!
Kids are never too young to hear rich language. I recently came across a wonderful series of books called “Poetry for Young People.” The series devotes one book to each poet. There is… Read More
“Steps” by Frank O’Hara
It's Sunday morning, and this poem makes me happy. … Read More
“Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam” by Rob Whitworth
"Everyone who has visited Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam knows part of the magic (love it or hate it) is in the traffic. Ever since I first set foot in HCMC I… Read More
“Imagining Starry” by Marie Ponsot
"What she has written of her relation to the night sky—'it becomes the infinite / air of imagination that stirs immense / among losses and leaves me less desolate'—could be claimed by… Read More
Marie Osmond on DaDa Poet Hugo Ball
Thanks to Matthew Zapruder for bringing this to my attention. … Read More
“A Modern Herbal: Juglans Nigra” by Amy Glynn Greacen
Amy Glynn Greacen is a poet, novelist, and food writer. She was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and educated at Mount Holyoke college and Lancaster University, England. Her… Read More
“Si Non Te Veo Feliche Morte” (“If I Don’t Ever See You, Die Happy”)
One of my favorite word sites, savethewords.org, has gone dark just like many of the obscure and archaic words that it tried to save . . . … Read More
“In the Dead Air” by Glyn Maxwell
Glyn Maxwell was born in 1962 in Welwyn Garden City, England. He is the author of several collections of poems, including Out of the Rain (1992), for which he received a Somerset… Read More
“An Equation for My Children” by Wilmer Mills
Acclaimed as a careful practitioner of form and meter, Mills received praise for the dramatic monologues of his first book, Light for the Orphans (2002). Influenced by poets such as Robert Frost… Read More
“The Gift” by Carl E. Rinsch
Russian sci-fi. Not appropriate for children!!!… Read More
“I have been studying how I may compare / This prison where I live unto the world”: David Yezzi Recites Richard II’s Soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Richard II, V.5
David Yezzi, poet, critic, editor, librettist, playwright, and trained Shakespearean actor, takes on one of the great soliloquies and delivers with astounding power. … Read More
“Hawk” by Wendy Videlock
Wendy Videlock lives in Western Colorado. Her book, Nevertheless is available from Able Muse Press.… Read More
So You Think You Got Game? Try This!
BTW: I used to be just a regular E-Verser like you . . . then I took an arrow to the knee.… Read More
“On the Corner” by Ernest Hilbert
Edinburgh’s oldest literary journal and released three times a year, The Edinburgh Review has been transforming the critical landscape since 1802. Issue 133 features poetry by Paul Muldoon, Ernest Hilbert, Jen Hadfield,… Read More
“Guns ‘N Roses” by Austin MacRae
Austin MacRae's poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, 32 Poems, Birmingham Poetry Review, Stone Canoe, and The Cortland Review.… Read More
“Song” by Frank O’Hara
O'Hara was at the heart of a vibrant artistic circle that embraced fellow New York School poets John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, as well as experimental painters such… Read More
“Wind Loss” by Chis Bullard
"the Golden Oldies / station played Steve Miller."… Read More
“Get Away” by Yuck
"A well-rounded Nineties indie rock mixtape. Yuck's self-titled debut album has a comforting, familiar sound, but the appeal isn't limited to nostalgia–Blumberg and his bandmates have a talent for penning memorable hooks… Read More
Quincy R. Lehr and Paul Siegell Enter the Studio to Record Tracks for Legendary Misbehavior LP
"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it." - Art Buchwald… Read More