[Quincy Lehr]

Carmine Street Metrics Presents
Ernest Hilbert with Rick Mullin + Open mic

Sunday, November 3, 2013, 5:45pm
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
New York, NY

Ernest Hilbert’s debut collection Sixty Sonnets (2009) was described by X.J. Kennedy as “maybe the most arresting sequence we have had since John Berryman checked out of America.” His second collection, All of You on the Good Earth (2013), has been hailed as a “wonder of a book,” “original and essential,” an example of “sheer mastery of poetic form,” containing “some of the most elegant poems in American literature since the loss of Anthony Hecht.” His poems have appeared in several anthologies, including the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (2009), Two Weeks: A Digital Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (2011), and two Penguin anthologies, Poetry: A Pocket Anthology and Literature: A Pocket Anthology (2011). He hosts the popular blog www.everseradio.com and works as an antiquarian book dealer in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, an archaeologist.

Rick Mullin’s collection, Coelacanth, was published this year by Dos Madres Press, Loveland, Ohio. His epic poem, Soutine, on the life of the Belorussian painter Chaim Soutine, was published in 2012 by Dos Madres, and his book-length poem, Huncke, was published in 2010 by Seven Towers, Dublin. Rick has two chapbooks, Aquinas Flinched (2008), and The Stones Jones Canzones (2012), published by the Modern Metrics imprint of Exot Books, New York, and Finishing Line Press, Georgetown, Kentucky, respectively. His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Raintown Review, American Arts Quarterly, Ep;phany and the forthcoming Rabbit Ears, the first ever anthology of poems all about TV. In addition to writing poetry, Rick is a painter and journalist.

[Rick Mullin]

Wind bags the both of them.

[Rick Mullin]

All right. Let's hear it for Ernest at least!!!

I'll start:

How wonderful! I can't wait to hear Ernie! I already own all his books.

Rick

[Quincy Lehr]

Well, I'm looking forward to both of you, and hopefully the camera will be aimed at the stage this time!

[Bill Carpenter]

Congratulations, Rick! Does this mean the Darwin sequence is already out and walking around on its rudimentary limbs?

[Rick Mullin]

Darwin is up to 77 sonnets, Bill! It still only has rudimentary lungs, though. Which reminds me.... I will be reading from my new chapbook, Coelacanth! Folks, if you don't already have a copy, you probably don't want one!!!!

I will bring, maybe, my YouTube maker as a backup. Not that I don't trust the Bowery Poetry Club (though it was locked the last time I was supposed to feature there).

And Quincy will be hosting! All joshing aside, I'm really looking forward to reading with Ernie.

Thanks--RM

[Cyn Neely]

I'd be there if I could.
Seattle is a long way from NYC.
Have a great time!

[Charlotte Innes]

Yes, I'd be there too, if at all possible. Break a leg, Rick... and Ernie!

Charlotte

[Wendy Sloan]

Well, they've assured us that the streaming will work this time, and we'll be careful to check on their camera position so ... you should be able to watch, Charlotte.

[Charlotte Innes]

Thanks, Wendy! I'll definitely give it another try.

Charlotte