“Winds” from “Bucolics” by W.H. Auden
One of many stunners from Auden's book Shield of Achilles. … Read More
“At Dawn: Eurydice” by Daniel Evans Pritchard
Daniel Evans Pritchard is a poet and essayist living in Boston. He is marketing and publicity director of Boston Review, publisher of The Critical Flame, and organizer of the bimonthly U35 Reading… Read More
“Faux King in the Parking Lot” by Lynn Levin
Lynn Levin’s newest collection of poems is Miss Plastique (Ragged Sky Press, 2013). A poet, writer, and translator, Lynn Levin is also the author of three previous collections of poems: Fair Creatures… Read More
“Prelude: Dusk in the Ruins” by Ernest Hilbert
“‘Genes clarify the genius and the freak / And prove we descend from a feral band,’ Ernest Hilbert writes in ‘Outsider Art,’ and there is no mistaking the ‘feral’ appetite and… Read More
“Love To Get Used” by Matt Pond
Video by Fortune Films USA (http://fortunefilmsusa.com/)… Read More
Cynthia Waxes Nostalgic on Vintage Board Games
In honor of the new monopoly update, I'd like to wax nostalgic about a game that I had as a kid. … Read More
“Sailing the Mullica River (Great Bay Estuary) 1978” by Ernest Hilbert
“Hilbert is one of our best rhymers since Robert Frost, and his poems have been compared by superb poets to those of John Berryman and Robert Lowell. We haven’t had a… Read More
“Shanghai Cigarettes” by Caitlin Rose
Directed, shot and edited by Seth Graves. Studio footage shot by Kevin Doyle.… Read More
“The Socialites” by Dirty Projectors
A music video taken from the short film Hi Custodian.… Read More
“Bloodletting” by Alex Dimitrov
Alex Dimitrov's first book of poems, Begging for It, was published this March by Four Way Books. His poems have been published in the Yale Review, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Slate,… Read More
“Where?” by Heinrich Heine, translated from the German by Terese Coe
Terese Coe's poems and translations have appeared in Threepenny Review, The TLS, Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Stinging Fly, Agenda, The Cincinnati Review, New American Writing, Tar River Poetry, and Alaska Quarterly… Read More
“Goddess” by Crime & The City Solution
Pre-Order Now! Digital: smarturl.it/CCSAmericanTwilight / CD: smarturl.it/AmericanTwilightCD Ltd Red Vinyl: http://bit.ly/12vEl5J Visuals by Danielle de Picciotto. After a two decade hiatus, the legendary Crime & The City Solution return with a new incarnation based in a new… Read More
Six Acre Lake is on the Way to Blow You Out of the Water!
The two-man big-sound battleship Six Acre Lake is slipping from its berth and steaming west from Philadelphia to unleash broadsides on the eardrums of local music fans. You've gotta see these guys… Read More
“Sugar on the Floor” by East Coastamite Featuring PJ Brown
East Coastamite, featuring Andrew Lannutti on guitar, Dave Coulson on organ, Tom McKernan on bass, and Mark Shewchuk on drums, welcomes soul singer PJ Brown to the stage at Ortlieb's Lounge in… Read More
“Not My Leg” by David Rothman
David J. Rothman is Director of the Poetry Concentration in the MFA at Western State Colorado University, and also teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Denver University, and Lighthouse Writers… Read More
“Anchors” by Anna Evans
Anna M. Evans’ poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Harvard Review, Atlanta Review, Rattle, American Arts Quarterly, and 32 Poems. She gained her MFA from Bennington College, and is the… Read More
“Coming Down” by Dum Dum Girls
Directed by Malia James http://www.maliajames.com… Read More
“A Crowded Trolley Car” by Elinor Wylie
Extravagantly praised in her lifetime, the poet and novelist Elinor Wylie suffered a posthumous reversal in her reputation but has experienced something of a revival of interest among feminist critics since the… Read More
“Big Game” by Brenda Shaughnessy
Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of two books of poetry. The most recent, Human Dark with Sugar, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critic’s Circle Award and winner of the… Read More
Elegies & Laments Available for Digital Download
Over the next few weeks, a variety of digital download services will make my new spoken world album Elegies & Laments available for purchase. You may buy the album for $5 (US)… Read More
“Slugs” by Deryn Rees-Jones
Deryn Rees-Jones was born in Liverpool in 1968. She read English for her undergraduate and Masters degrees at the University of Wales, Bangor. Her anthology Modern Women Poets (Bloodaxe, 2005) was widely… Read More
“The Place Where Nobody Knows I Go” by The Shilohs
Directed by Ian Perlman Filmed by Ian Perlman Coloured by Mark Olivan Starring Kelsea Dakota The Shilohs' "So Wild" available February 5th, 2013 via Light Organ Records… Read More
“Ray’s Strut” by East Coastamite
East Coastamite, featuring Andrew Lannutti on guitar, Dave Coulson on organ, Tom McKernan on bass, and Mark Shewchuk on drums, perform their song, "Ray's Strut", at Ortlieb's Lounge on July 27th, 2012.… Read More
Listen to a Segment of the “Legendary Misbehavior” Section of Elegies & Laments on Vinyl
This is a short video/sound clip from the limited-edition white vinyl series of Ernest Hilbert's album Elegies & Laments. … Read More
“Hens” by Henri Cole
"In my own poems, I have grown accustomed to astringency; there is no longer any compulsion to hide or temper the truth, as there was when I was setting out twenty years… Read More
Copies of Elegies & Laments on Vinyl are Landing All Over the World
Have a look at some of the copies that have turned up on their very own turntables. These are the limited-edition 1/100 on white vinyl and signed by members of the project.… Read More
Ernest Hilbert Reads at the Legendary Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City
Hope to see you there!… Read More
“Heart Sweats” by Japandroids
Japandroids perform "Heart Sweats" live in-studio at KEXP 90.3FM in Seattle. Recorded 6/16/09. www.kexp.org… Read More
Poetry and Music in Bed Together Again: Michael Zapruder’s New Album Pink Thunder
"Zapruder lets the songs wander, as if he's creating a melodic new method of storytelling... He builds songs in a Jon Brian-esque style, with Elliot Smith-like sensitivity and raw ache in his… Read More
“29th July: Interior” by Sean Borodale
"Sean Borodale is without doubt the most exciting new poet I have read since Alice Oswald. His Bee Journal raises the bar for us all and announces a thrilling new voice in… Read More