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About John Ebersole
NBN Episodes hosted by John:
December 21, 2015
Directing Herbert White
Every poet has their obsessions and for James Franco they are childhood, gender, sex, innocence, and the work place he knows best: the film industry. …
March 6, 2015
My Silver Planet
Mass-produced, fake, sentimental, easily digestible: when we think of kitsch these elements often come to mind. Furthermore, kitsch is almost always a…
May 4, 2014
The Earth Avails
In The Earth Avails (Graywolf Press), Mark Wunderlich presents a world unfamiliar to most of us: rural life. While many poets are enamored by the impa…
March 23, 2014
Seven American Deaths and Disasters
Kenneth Goldsmith's latest book Seven American Deaths and Disasters (powerHouse Books, 2013), a title taken from the series of Warhol paintings by the…
February 16, 2014
Charming Gardeners
David Biespiel's Charming Gardeners (University of Washington Press, 2013) is unlike any book I've read in a long time. Filled with epistolary poems, …
January 19, 2014
Wishbone
Like great critics, the poetry of great editors is often overlooked, but I don't see how this can be the case with Don Share, whose work is too good t…
December 10, 2013
The Late Parade
The Late Parade (Liveright, 2013) has received a lot of attention and it's well-deserved. Adam Fitzgerald's poetry is a berserk love song and between …
November 24, 2013
Marvelous Things Overheard
In Marvelous Things Overheard (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), Ange Mlinko's poems exhibit a sonically rich landscape articulated by a beautiful voi…
November 3, 2013
Trances of the Blast
Mary Ruefle's newest book of poems Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013) is brilliant. Her poems have the confidence of a poet who is utterly fearle…
October 6, 2013
Madame X
William Logan is often thought of as a critic first and a poet second, so his verse doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves. In Logan's poetry we…
September 23, 2013
Ethical Consciousness
In Paul Killebrew's latest book of poems, Ethical Consciousness (Canarium Books, 2013), the speaker inhabits the everyday structures of our lives, but…
September 2, 2013
Alien vs. Predator
Michael Robbins, author of Alien vs. Predator (Penguin Books, 2012), has gotten a lot of attention for his book of poems because of his relentless mas…
August 6, 2013
Pity the Beautiful
Dana Gioia's deference to poetic tradition and artistic beauty is intolerable to those who taste the venom of ideology in every linguistic expression …
July 11, 2013
Little Stranger
In Little Stranger (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), Lisa Olstein's poems are concerned with the tension between the public and the personal and how the fo…
July 1, 2013
Belmont
Belmont (Graywolf Press, 2013) is a book of poems written by both a grownup and a child and each seem quite aware of the other. This split-consciousne…
June 18, 2013
The Glacier's Wake
The poems in Katy Didden's debut The Glacier's Wake (Pleiades Press, 2013) are civilized and dignified and so are their surfaces: sophisticated sounds…
June 11, 2013
The Virtues of Poetry
James Longenbach's The Virtues of Poetry (Graywolf Press, 2013) is not interested in the vices or failures found in some poems, so his concerns are no…
May 27, 2013
Imperial Nostalgias
Joshua Edwards' new book and its title, Imperial Nostalgias (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), hint at a yearning for a lost world all of us helped to dest…
April 29, 2013
Instructions for Killing the Jackal
As I waded into Erica Wright's first books of poems, I immediately became not only aware of my gender, but the event that is female, woman, girl, and …
April 22, 2013
Upper Level Disturbances
Kevin Goodan's latest book of poems, Upper Level Disturbances (Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University, 2012), directly challenges…
April 6, 2013
Sudden Dog
In Sudden Dog, the voice we encounter is a moody one to say the least. We find a poet who at times seems to believe the entire human project is stupid…
March 25, 2013
The Hartford Book
To read Samuel Amadon's latest book of poems, The Hartford Book (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012), is to know for the rest of your life…