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, LIT, McSweeney’s, American Scholar, Verse, Volt, and Fence.

His collection Sixty Sonnets will be issued by Red Hen Press in autumn 2008. He writes for a variety of publications, including The New York Sun, Scribner’s American Writers series, and the Academy of American Poets.

Hilbert received his doctorate in English Literature from Oxford University, where he earlier completed a Master’s Degree and founded the Oxford Quarterly. While there, he studied with James Fenton and Jon Stallworthy. He was the poetry editor for Random House’s magazine Bold Type for several years and later edited the magazine nowCulture. He works as a rare book dealer and lives in Philadelphia with his fiancée, an archaeologist.

He created E-Verse Radio in the summer of 1999 as a regular means of harassment for friends, enemies, and fellow readers. It currently enjoys over 1,300 very smart but quite unruly members.

Webmaster and general guru Jason Christopher Hartley is author of the best-selling Iraq War memoir Just Another Soldier.

Producer and sidekick Paul Fleming prepares high quality radio and TV broadcasts for your delectation.

Designer Jennifer Mercer is already famous for her surprisingly fun designs in a variety of media. The woman behind the E-Verse Radio logo, Jennifer will also design E-Verse Radio merchandise, to include t-shirts, temporary tattoos, glow-in-the-dark stickers, pint glasses, guitar picks, ashtrays, and the long-awaited Ernest and Paul bobble-heads. You can view more of her work at www.jmercerdesign.com

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