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2024

Ernest Hilbert Reads for Carmine Street Metrics
Sunday, June 2nd, 2:30PM
Jefferson Market Library
425 Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue between 9th & 10th Streets), New York, NY 10011

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Ernest Hilbert Reads with Chris Childers, translator of the Penguin Book of Greek and Roman Lyric Poetry, for the Fourth Wednesday Series
7PM, Wednesday, May 22nd
Upstairs at Fergie’s Pub

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World Premiere of “High Ashes,” poems by Ernest Hilbert set by composer Stella Sung as a companion piece to Gustav Mahler’s “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen [Songs of a Wayfarer],” part of a “Mahler to the Max” evening, including Mahler’s First Symphony. Hilbert and conductor Kevin F.E. Sütterlin will give a pre-concert talk
Saturday, April 27th, 7:30PM
Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra, 54 Park Place #200
Appleton, WI 54914

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Ernest Hilbert Reads from Storm Swimmer and High Ashes at Lawrence University
April 25th, time TBD
Lawrence University, Appleton, WI

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Master Class with Ernest Hilbert: “All is Silver”: Poetry and the Evocation of Place”
2PM, Monday, April 15th
West Chester University

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Ernest Hilbert Reads for North of Oxford
6PM, Wednesday, April 10th
Northeast Philadelphia Library, 2228 Cottman Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19149-1297

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Ernest Hilbert with Petr Hruška (Czech Republic) and Rob A. Mackenzie (Scotland) at Head House Books
6:30PM, Tuesday, March 19th, the first day of spring
Head House Books, 619 S 2nd St., Philadelphia, PA 19147-2410

2023

Ernest Hilbert’s Closing Reading as 2023 Poet in Residence
Monday, November 20th, 7PM
Special Collections, West Chester University

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Ernest Hilbert’s Launch Reading as 2023 Poet in Residence
Tuesday, November 7th, 7PM
Special Collections, West Chester University

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Ernest Hilbert received the 2023 Meringhoff Writer Award for Poetry from the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. He travelled to the University of Houston for the award ceremony, where he read the five winning poems in the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion. He paid a virtual visit to an Elements of the Poem course at the Savannah School of Art and Design to read from Storm Swimmer and discuss the poetic process. Hilbert was appointed judge of the West Chester University Poetry Center’s Iris N. Spencer Undergraduate Awards as well as the Wil Mills Chapbook Award, a group of awards open to submission starting in the fall and awarded at a ceremony in the spring. Hilbert will also be the poet-in-residence for the fall 2023 semester at West Chester University, delivering an inaugural reading and a closing craft talk, leading a workshop, and visiting courses in literature, book history, and music. His book Storm Swimmer was reviewed in The Spectator World (May 2023), Literary Matters (issue 16.1), The Hopkins Review, and North of Oxford. It also received mention by the Washington Post Book Club, which included the poem “Voltage Crackles at the Edge” for its 220,000 members.

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Ernest Hilbert Reads for 2023 ALSCW Meringoff Award Winners Ceremony
Thursday, October 12th, 5PM
University of Houston, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion, 4333 University Drive
Houston, TX 77204

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Ernest Hilbert Reads for the Finger Lakes Arts Series, “Poems of Fatherhood”
Friday, June 23rd, 6PM
MacFadden Coffee Company, 211 Main Street, Dansville, NY 14437

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Ernest Hilbert Reads from the “Wandering Rocks” Chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses for the Rosenbach Library’s Annual Bloomsday Celebration
Friday, June 16th, 2PM
Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia

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Ernest Hilbert with Susan Spear, Luke Stromberg, and Jane Satterfield
Friday, June 11th, 4:15PM
West Chester University

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Ernest Hilbert Reads with Mary Jo Salter
Sunday, April 16th, 4PM
HOT L Series, Bird in Hand Books, 11 E 33rd St, Baltimore, MD 21218

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Storm Swimmer Launch Party
Wednesday, April 12th, 7PM
Fergie’s Pub, Philadelphia

2022

Ernest Hilbert’s book Storm Swimmer was selected as winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize by Rowan Ricardo Phillips. The book will be published by UNT Press in April 2023. Tollund Press of Essex County, Massachusetts, issued a second broadside of Hilbert’s work, “Pelagic,” with the image of a cresting wave created by Paris-based Chilean painter Franco Salas-Borquez, six sealed in bottles, three for sale and three placed into the Gulf Stream, along with 54 unbottled copies. Hilbert’s poem “Endless Mountains” appeared in The Spectator World; “In Paradisum” in Philadelphia Stories; “Vertebrate” in 32 Poems; “Moon Garden” and “December Issue” in The Hudson Review; “Little Cause” and “Alchemericana” in THINK; “Wintergreen Barberry” and “Mineral Springs Trail” in Literary Matters; “Salvaging” and “My Autocorrect Always Turns Poems into Problems” in The Bennington Review; “Voltage Crackles at the Edge,” “The Study,” and “Bound Demons” in The Dark Horse; “Funerary” and “Great Egret Over Lake Luxembourg” in Trinity House Review; “Cape Charles” in ONE ART: A Journal of Poetry; “Is This Thing On?” in The Hopkins Review.

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Ernest Hilbert Reads from Bram Stoker’s Dracula for the Rosenbach’s First Annual Draculthon
Friday, October 14th, 6PM
Trinity Center for Urban Life, 2212 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19103

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Ernest Hilbert Reads from the “Cyclops” Chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses for the Rosenbach Library’s Annual Bloomsday
Thursday, June 16th, 3:35PM
Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia

2021

Ernest Hilbert with Nicole Steinberg
Sunday, November 14th, 1PM
George F. Tyler Mansion in Bucks County, Pennsylvania

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Ernest Hilbert Featured on a Special Halloween Episode of Rattlecast
Saturday, October 30th, 8PM EST, live reading and podcast series from Rattle magazine

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2021 Newburyport Literary Festival
Ernest Hilbert with Martha Collins
Saturday, April 24th, 2PM EST
“Ernest Hilbert has dared to wear the mantle of the public poet. Critics often compare Hilbert to Robert Lowell, not only because he allows his personal demons a say in his poetry, but also because, in many of his poems, his intended audience is not one reader or a small group of aficionados, but our nation, these hardly-united States—whether or not our nation is willing to listen.” Register here.

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Celebrity Poet Judge Ernest Hilbert Introduces the 2021 Montgomery County Poet Laureate
LitLife Poetry Festival
Saturday, April 17th, 6:30PM
Rosemont College, PA

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Ernest Hilbert’s poems “The Demon,” “The Knife,” and “Above the Salt Springs” appeared in The Raintown Review, Number 1, New Series. The issue also contained a substantial review of his book Last One Out by New York critic Wendy Sloan. Hilbert’s poem “Lodge” appeared in June issue of The North American Anglican. His 2013 spoken word album Elegies & Laments was featured on the Best American Poetry’s “Poetry on Vinyl” series. Tollund Press of Essex County, Massachusetts, issued a letterpress signed-limited broadside of Hilbert’s poem “Last Rites” with art by his son, Ian. Hilbert’s blank sonnet “Appeal” was selected as the Laureates’ Choice winner in the 2021 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest, which is affiliated with the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Minnesota. Hilbert’s review of Richard Ovenden’s Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge appeared in the February 12th edition of the Wall Street Journal. His review of The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance appeared in the April 23rd issue of the same newspaper. On March 18th, Hilbert’s NFT poem “Riddle Me” was issued for sale at Opensea, a peer-to-peer marketplace for rare digital items and crypto collectibles housed at the Hunter College MFA program in New York City. It sold to a private collector.

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“Root and All: The Power of the Object” Two-hour Master Class by Ernest Hilbert
LitLife Poetry Festival
Saturday, April 17th, 11AM-1PM
Rosemont College, PA

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Ernest Hilbert in Conversation with Dana Gioia: Reading, Collecting, and Writing Poetry
ABAA California Virtual Book Fair
March 4th, 8PM EST

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2020

Ernest Hilbert’s poems “The Inlet” and “Monster-Mania Con 44” appeared in issue 140 of Red Fez magazine. His poem “Human Interest” appeared on the Best American Poetry website. Hilbert’s poem “Drink Me” appeared in The Moth. His poem “Deep Shade” appeared in issue 13:1 of Literary Matters, at the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. His poems “Union Lake” and “Remains” appear in Edition IV: Fall 2020 of Bowery Gothic magazine. His poems “Spolia Opima,” “Crypt,” and “Apollinaris, Medicus Titi Imperatoris hic Cacavit Bene” appeared in the October 2020 issue of Cassandra Voices. Hilbert was invited to be the “Celebrity Judge” for the 2021 Montgomery County Poet Laureate competition. A. E. Stallings reviewed Hilbert’s fourth book, Last One Out, in B O D Y, a Prague-based literary magazine. Last One Out was also reviewed in The Hopkins Review at Johns Hopkins University, Volume 13, Number 2, Spring 2020. Hilbert’s poems “Laurel Hill,” “EL CONQUISTADOR,” and “Rondel” appear in the new issue of Think: A Journal of Poetry, Fiction, and Essays, Summer/Fall 2020, Volume 10.2. His poem “We Regret” appeared in the Seneca Review‘s 50th-Anniversary “Anxiety” issue.

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Ernest Hilbert Reads for Red Fez Magazine Launch Party
Tuesday, October 13th, 8PM
ZOOM reading

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All scheduled public appearances this spring and summer have been canceled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. In other news, Hilbert’s review of Kathy Peiss’s book Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe appeared in the Wall Street Journal. His poems “Scream Queen” and “Stronghold” appeared in issue 27 of Smartish Pace magazine. A number of students around the country chose to recite Ernest Hilbert’s poem “Domestic Situation” this year for the Poetry Out Loud competition, including Victoria Abate of Laconia High School, New Hampshire; Taelyce Depina of St. Patrick Academy, Rhode Island; and Jordan Sweenie of Groton-Dunstable Regional High School in Groton, Massachussets, all of whom won their regional competitions with the poem. Congratulations! The website The Wolf Eel features a voice recording by the site’s host of Hilbert’s poem “Dredge,” which appeared in Two Weeks: A Digital Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and his second collection, All of You on the Good Earth. “Domestic Situation” was also featured on North State Public Radio, read by radio personality Anthony Peyton Porter. The magazine Fine Books & Collections (18.3, Summer 2020) contains my profile of Kevin Young, poet, essayist, anthologist, book collector, professor, scholar, curator, and Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.

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CANCELLED DUE TO COVID Ernest Hilbert Reads from Edward Gorey’s Verse
Thursday, March 26th, 7PM SOLD OUT
Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia

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CANCELLED DUE TO COVID Ernest Hilbert Reads from Last One Out and Discusses the Book
Friday, April 3rd, 4PM
West Chester Poetry Conference, West Chester, PA

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Ernest Hilbert Featured Reader for Carmine Street Metrics
Sunday, February 2nd, 3-5PM
Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 E 14th St (between Ave A and Ave B, closer to B) New York, NY 10009

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Ernest Hilbert Reads Robert Burns for Burns Night
Saturday, January 25th, 6PM SOLD OUT
Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia
“Raise a glass to the Bard of Ayrshire, Robert Burns, with an evening of raucous readings of selected poems (including Tam O’Shanter) and songs performed by Celtic music duo The Kennedys. We’ll have a few traditional Scottish treats, and Burns books from our collection will be on display.”

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Ernest Hilbert with John Wall Barger
Thursday, January 16th, 7PM
Shakespeare & Company, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia

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2019

Ernest Hilbert with Daniel Tobin for the Hastings Room Reading Series
Thursday, November 14th, 7PM
Library at Christ Church Cambridge, 0 Garden Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge MA

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Ernest Hilbert Reads Chapter 109, “Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin” from Melville’s Masterpiece
Moby-Dick Big Read
Sunday, November 10th, 10:30AM
Independence Seaport Museum, Penn’s Landing, 211 South Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19106

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My poem “Last Rites” appears in the latest issue of The Hudson Review, Autumn 2019, Volume LXXII, No. 3. My poems “Scream Queen” and “Stronghold” will appear soon in Smartish Pace. All three are part of a new book I’m working on called Storm Swimmer. My full-page review “From Genocide to Justice,” about Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh’s book The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript From Genocide to Justice, appeared in the November 23rd Wall Street Journal Holiday Books special section. My feature profile of Dana Gioia’s book collection appeared in the November issue of Fine Books & Collections. I reviewed Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie’s new book of essays, Surfacing, in The Washington Post. Composer Christopher LaRosa, who has in the past set my poems “Nights of 1998” and “Kite,” is at work on a musical setting of my poem “Chelsea Hotel,” from Last One Out, for baritone and string quartet. Last One Out was reviewed at Literary Matters —”in Last One Out, Hilbert—as with many poets writing at the height of their powers—conveys a sense that we are being told a single narrative of human existence, that each poem is a small part of a larger mosaic, being revealed to us slowly”—and in The Sheila Variations, “Hilbert is haunted by what used to be here, either 20 years ago or 1,500 years ago . . . Hilbert never just sees ‘Now.'”

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Ernest Hilbert Reads for Measure Press
Friday, September 19th, 4PM
Melvin Peterson Gallery, University of Evansville, Lincoln Ave, Evansville, IN 47714

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Ernest Hilbert Reads for the Dead Bards Reading Series
Tuesday, June 18th, 7:30PM
Venice Island Performing Arts Center
7 Lock Street, Philadelphia, PA 19127

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Ernest Hilbert Reads from the “Wandering Rocks” Chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses for the Rosenbach Library’s Annual Bloomsday
Sunday, June 16th, 2:15PM
Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia

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Ernest Hilbert Book Party for Last One Out
Thursday May 16th, 7-8PM (doors at 6:30PM)
Grolier Club
47 E 60th St, 2nd Floor Gallery
New York, NY 10022

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Ernest Hilbert Reads with Catherine Staples and James Matthew Wilson
Sunday, May 5th, 2:45PM
Manayunk Roxborough Art Center, Philadelphia

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Ernest Hilbert reads with Bernadette McBride for National Poetry Month
Saturday, April 27th, 2PM
Whitman Stafford Farmhouse
315 Maple Avenue, Laurel Springs, NJ 08021
Sponsored by the Stratford Public Library

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Ernest Hilbert reads for the launch of John Wall Barger’s The Mean Game
Wednesday, April 24th, 7PM
A Novel Bookstore, 1726 East Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19143
Other readers include Cris Iacoponi, Vasiliki Katsarou, Tim Fitts, Kyle Brown-Watson, emcee’d by Fayyaz Vellani

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Ernest Hilbert Reads with Rachel Uwada Clifford for the HOT*L Poets Series
Sunday, April 14th, 4PM
Bird in Hand, 11 E. 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

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Ernest Hilbert Publication Party for Last One Out
Thursday, March 14th, 6PM
Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia

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Ernest Hilbert with Mary Jo Salter, Ryan Wilson, Maryann Corbett, James Matthew Wilson, and Adrienne Su, hosted by David Lehman
Best American Poetry 2018 Anthology Reading
Wednesday, February 6th, 7PM
Bartley Hall auditorium, on the campus of Villanova University

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Two stanzas of my poem “Mars Ultor,” which appeared in the Best American Poetry 2018 anthology (and will appear in Last One Out, March 2019), are cited by book critic Michael Dirda in his Washington Post review of the anthology. My poem “Amusements” appears in the new issue of Plume alongside new poems by Billy Collins, Stephanie Burt, Marilyn Kallet, Adam Tavel, and others. The issue also features “The Poets Speak,” in which we offer commentary on the poems. My poem “Visitations” appears in the first print annual of Cassandra Voices. A 2009 recording of my poem “The Pessimist Prepares for What May Well Be His Last Winter” from my first book, Sixty Sonnets, aired on December 23rd, 2018, on WXPN 88.5 FM Philadelphia’s Sleepy Hollow radio program.

2018

Ernest Hilbert Reads Thomas Hardy and Wilfred Owen to Commemorate the Centennial of the End of the First World War
Monday, December 10th, 6PM
Philadelphia Free Library, Parkway Central, 1901 Vine Street (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) Philadelphia, PA 19103

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Ernest Hilbert Reads Chapter 108, “Ahab and the Carpenter”
Moby-Dick Big Read
Saturday, October 20th, 3PM
Independence Seaport Museum, Penn’s Landing, 211 South Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19106

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Ernest Hilbert Reads at the Best American Poetry 2018 Launch
Thursday, September 20th, 7PM
Tishman Auditorium at the New School, 66 West 12th Street, New York City

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Ernest Hilbert Reads from the “Sirens” Chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses for the Rosenbach Library’s Annual Bloomsday
Saturday, June 16th, 3:45PM
Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia

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Ernest Hilbert reads with Kim Gek-Lin Short, Kevin Varrone, Quincy R. Lehr, Angel Hogan, and Paul Siegell to celebrate the launch of Siegell’s new book, hosted by Kathleen Volk-Miller
Friday, June 22nd, doors 7PM
L’etage, 624 South 6th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147

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My poem “Mars Ultor” has been selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2018, which will be published in hardcover and trade paper by Scribner in September. I’ve reviewed a few books for The Washington Post newspaper. You can read them here, and here, and here. My poem “Nights of 1998,” from All of You on the Good Earth, has been set to music by composer Christopher LaRosa for voice and sinfonietta. It was performed in March, 2018. Click here to hear and view the performance. “Nights of 1998” will be performed again in Mexico City by UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) on May 29th.

A recording of my poem “Haunts” aired on WHYY FM, Philadelphia’s NPR Station, 90.9 MHz, on April 24th, 2018 as part of a National Poetry Month feature on Morning Edition, hosted by Jennifer Lynn. It’s a series on Philadelphia neighborhoods. I imagine the cartoonist Charles Addams, who lived in my neighborhood, drawing me as one of his bizarre characters looking out of my window after a rain storm. The poem is slated for my fourth book, Last One Out. You can visit Morning Edition’s archive to read the poems in the episode: “Poetry Conveys Sense of Philadelphia Community.” My poem “Air & Water” appears in the May issue of The New Criterion.

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Ernest Hilbert Reads for Painted Bride Quarterly
Monday, April 9th, 7:30PM
Black Sheep Pub, Philadelphia

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 Ernest Hilbert reads for Monday Poets at the Free Library
Monday, March 5th, 2018, 6:30PM
Free Library of Philadelphia

2017

Ernest Hilbert Interviews Afaa M. Weaver
Sunday, November 19th, 2PM
Fergie’s Pub

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Ernest Hilbert Reads Ahab’s “I’d Strike the Sun if it Insulted Me” Passage at the Moby-Dick Celebration
Saturday, November 18th, 4-8PM
Rosenbach Museum and Library

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Ernest Hilbert in Conversation at the Rosenbach

The author of the essay “Austen’s Ring and Shelley’s Heart: Our Fascination with Literary Relics” will talk about rare book collectors and their attraction to objects once owned by their favorite authors, including Jane Austen’s ring, Virginia Woolf’s desk, Tolkien’s academic gown, Hemingway’s moccasins, Jack Kerouac’s typewriter, and J.K. Rowling’s chair.

Thursday, October 5th, 6PM

Rosenbach Museum and Library

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A brief update of some summer 2017 activities. My review of Willard Spiegelman’s essay collection Senior Moments: Looking Back, Looking Ahead appeared in The Hopkins Review, and my review of Abigail Williams’ The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the 18th-Century Home appeared in The Washington Post. My poems “House and Home” and “Campo Santo” appeared in Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, and my poem “Seasonal Drinking” appeared in Modern Drunkard magazine. I was interviewed at length for the Schuylkill Valley Journal. My review of Michael Dirda’s essay collection Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books also appeared in The Hopkins Review. Finally, my poem “Independence Day” appeared in the July issue of The Yale Review. Otherwise, it’s been a quiet summer, for which I am most grateful.

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Ernest and Ian Hilbert with Laura Spagnoli and David Moolton, “Offspring in the Creation of Art”
Wednesday, June 21st, 7PM
Toast Cafe, Philadelphia

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Ernest Hilbert Reads from the “Circe” Chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses for the Rosenbach Library’s Annual Bloomsday
Friday, June 16th, 5:30PM
Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia

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Ernest Hilbert, Featured Poet, Schuylkill Valley Journal #44 Launch
Sunday, June 11th 2:45PM
Manayunk Roxborough Art Center, Philadelphia

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Ernest Hilbert Reads for the Poets’ Prize Ceremony with finalist Joseph Harrison; R.S. Gwynn will read on behalf of finalist Donald Hall
Thursday, May 18th, 7PM
Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York City

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Ernest Hilbert with Austin Allen
Sunday, May 7th, 3PM
Carmine Street Metrics, Otto’s Shrunken Head, New York, NY

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Ernest Hilbert with Erica Dawson and Natalie Shapero, Hopkins Review 70th Anniversary

Thursday, February 9th, 12:30PM

Busboys and Poets, Washington DC

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Why Formalist Poetry Speaks to Us
Ernest Hilbert with John Timpane, Miriam Kotzin, moderated by Lynn Levin
Tuesday, January 31st, 6:00 PM
Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania

2016

Ernest Hilbert with Dawn Manning, Luke Stromberg
Sunday, December 4th 8-10PM
Poetry@P&P, Pen & Pencil Club, Philadelphia

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Ernest Hilbert at Colorado College Visiting Writers Series
Thursday, September 8th, 7PM
McHugh Commons on the Colorado College campus, Colorado Springs, Colorado

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Ernest Hilbert with David Mason, David Rothman, and Others, Blake Poplin Memorial Reading
Sept 8th, 3:30 PM
Sacred Grounds in Shove Chapel on the Colorado College Campus

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Ernest Hilbert Recent Publications, Opera News, Poetry Out Loud, and Other News February 2016

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CANCELLED

Ernest Hilbert with Christopher Bullock
Wednesday, April 13th, 7PM
KGB, New York City

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Ernest Hilbert Featured at “Something New (Jersey)”
Sunday, April 10th, 3PM
Hoboken Historical Museum, New Jersey

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2015

Ernest Hilbert with David Blair
Thursday, November 12th, 7PM
First Congregational Church, Cambridge, MA

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PhillyCAM TV show “Who Do You Love?” Sharon Olds Edition
Tuesday, November 3rd, 7PM
Comcast channels 66/966 and Verizon 29/30

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Ernest Hilbert Featured Reader for Dead Bards
Monday, November 2nd, 7PM
Venice Island Theater, Philadelphia

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Ernest Hilbert Reads for Painted Bride Quarterly
Monday, October 12th, 7:30PM
Black Sheep Pub, Philadelphia

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Book Launch Party for Ernest Hilbert’s Caligulan
Wednesday, September 26th
Bauman Rare Books Gallery, 535 Madison Avenue, NYC

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Book Launch Party for Ernest Hilbert’s Caligulan
Wednesday, September 23rd
Fergie’s Pub, Philadelphia

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Click here for updates and news from summer 2015, including Hilbert’s WHYY’s Radio Times in Review Poet’s Edition with Rita Dove and Nikky Finney; appearance on PRX (Public Radio Exchange) as part of “Brotherly Love: Philadelphia;” Hilbert’s opera with Stella Sung workshopped at The Dayton Performing Arts Alliance; premiere Hilbert’s former MFA student Laura Stuckey’s opera Audubon’s Dream, based on the letters of Lucy Audubon; appearances of Hilbert’s poems in American Poetry Review, The New Criterion, Parnassus, Measure, The Dark Horse, Smartish Pace, At Length, and The Hudson Review.

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Ernest Hilbert with Carmine Starnino
Atwater Library, Montreal Poetry Festival

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Ernest Hilbert with David Rothman
Saturday, July 11th
Gunnison Arts Center, Gunnison, CO

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Ernest Hilbert at Dark Horse Magazine’s 20th Anniversary Celebration
Saturday, June 20th, 6:30PM
Poets House, New York City

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Featured Reader at West Chester Poetry Center Poetry Salon
May 31st, 2PM
West Chester, PA

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Ernest Hilbert with Brian Heston and Therese Halcheid
Sunday, May 24th, 7:30PM
Tattooed Mom, Philadelphia

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Ernest Hilbert with Anna Evans at the Princeton Public Library
Monday, May 11th, 7:30PM
Princeton

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Ernest Hilbert Reads for the English Students’ Organization at Rutgers University
Tuesday, March 24, noon
Rutgers University, Camden

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Ernest Hilbert with Laura Spagnoli and Lynn Levin
Wednesday, January 21st, 7PM
Fergie’s Pub, Philadelphia

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2014

All of You on the Good Earth selected by Cleaver magazine for its Small-Press Lover’s Shopping List

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Ernest Hilbert with Daniel Tobin

Thursday, November 13th
Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Ernest Hilbert and Nate Kostar, featuring Justin “J-Boogie” Hatcher
Friday, June 20th
Sponsored by Poetdelphia, an Evening Celebrating Music and Meter in Poetry at the Philadelphia Sketch Club

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Ernest Hilbert with Sarah Arvio
Saturday, February 1st
Sponsored by the Random Name Poetry Series, Penn Book Center, University of Pennsylvania Campus, Philadelphia

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Incredible Sestina Anthology Reading, Philadelphia Edition
Co-host and reader
Wednesday, November 15th
Fergie’s Pub, Philadelphia, Kicking Off the National Tour

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2013

Conundrum and ivebeenreadinglately.com both select All of You on the Good Earth as poetry book of the year

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Editorial Institute at Boston University, Sponsored by the Boston Poetry Union
With Bill Coyle and Zachary Bos
Thursday, November 14th

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Carmine Street at the Bowery Poetry Club
With Rick Mullin
Sunday, November 3rd
Bowery Poetry Club, New York City

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Red Hen in New York City, Fall 2013
Ernest Hilbert with Matthea Harvey and Brenda Shaughnessy
September 13th, 2013
KGB Bar, New York City

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World of Versecraft
Ernest Hilbert with David Yezzi and David Rothman
July 13th 2013
Rumors Bookstore, Crested Butte, Colorado

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Tenth Annual New Jersey Poetry Festival
Ernest Hilbert with Linda Stern
May 19th, 2013
West Caldwell Public Library, New Jersey

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World Above Reading Series, New Jersey Poetry Collaborative
Ernest Hilbert featured poet with Rich Russell
April 24th, 2013
Dante Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey

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Moveable Beats Reading Series
Ernest Hilbert with James Arthur, hosted by Keith Kelleher
April 21st, 2013
Good Karma Café, Philadelphia

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Red Hen Press Publisher’s Showcase, 2013
Ernest Hilbert with John Barr, Mary Johnson, and Brynn Saito, hosted by Kate Gale
March 21st, 2013
Cornelia Street Café, New York City

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The New-New Formalists?
Ernest Hilbert with Kim Bridgford and Anna Evans
March 17th, 2013
Manayunk-Roxborough Art Center, Philadelphia

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AOYotGE Publication and Elegies & Laments Record Release Party
Ernest Hilbert, guest readers Paul Siegell, Quincy R. Lehr, Kristine Young, music by East Coastamite and Legendary Misbehavior
Saturday, March 16th, 2013
Fergie’s Pub, Philadelphia

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2012

Poetry Northeast September 2012 Issue Publication Reading
Ernest Hilbert with Ben Mazer, Jill McDonough, and Afaa Michael Weaver
November 15th, 2012
Lindsay Chapel, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Studio Theater Reading for Faculty and Students
Ernest Hilbert
July 19th, 2012
Taylor Hall Theater, Western State University of Colorado

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2011

Ernest Hilbert Reads with Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra Conducted by Julian Wachner
December 26th, 2011
St. Paul’s Chapel / 9/11 Chapel, New York City

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Moonstone Arts Monthly Reading Series
Ernest Hilbert with Daniel Nester, Elizabeth Gold, David Yezzi
September 27th, 2011
Robin’s Books, Philadelphia

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Second Annual Writing in the Rockies Poetry Symposium
Ernest Hilbert with David Rothman, David Yezzi, and Marilyn Taylor
July 28th, 2011
Aspinall-Wilson Center, Western State University of Colorado

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Four Poets in Oxford
Ernest Hilbert with James Byrne, Katy Evans-Bush, and Niall McDevitt
June 12th, 2011
Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Walton Street, Oxford, England

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Meter Matters: A Reading of Contemporary Metrical Poetry
Ernest Hilbert, David Yezzi, Tom Sexton, and Rhina Espaillat, hosted by Bill Coyle
May 14th, 2011
Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Colonial Hall, Salem, Massachusetts

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You Were Born to Feel a Way You Don’t Have a Word For
Ernest Hilbert with Timothy Donnelly and Matthew Zapruder
April 12th, 2011
Robin’s Books, Philadelphia

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Philadelphia Free Library Monday Poets Reading Series
Ernest Hilbert with Nick Moudry
February 7th 2011
Skyline Room, Philadelphia Central Library, Philadelphia

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Fourth Annual Victory Collaborative: Celebrating Poetry and Beer, Sponsored by Think Journal
Ernest Hilbert with Bill Coyle, Anna Evans, April Lindner, James Matthew Wilson, Alfred Nicol and David Yezzi, hosted by Michael Peich and Christine Yurick
December 5th, 2011
Victory Brewing Company, 420 Acorn Lane, Downingtown, Pennsylvania

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Boston Poetry Union Reading
Ernest Hilbert featured poet with Bill Coyle, and Daniel Pritchard
November 11th, 2010
Pierre Menard Gallery, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Carmine Street Metrics
Ernest Hilbert (accompanied on piano by David Rothman) with Nicholas Friedman
November 7th, 2011
Bowery Poetry Club, New York City

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2010

First Annual Writing in the Rockies Poetry Symposium
Ernest Hilbert with David Yezzi and David Rothman
July 30th, 2010
Prosser Theater, Western State University of Colorado

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Written Art Meets Liquid Art
Ernest Hilbert with Christine Klocek-Lim and Teresa Leo
July 28th, 2010
Earth, Bread, and Brewery, Philadelphia

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The Green Line Monthly Poetry Series
Ernest Hilbert with Deborah Fries hosted by Leonard Gontarek
June 15th, 2010
Green Line Café, Locust Street, Philadelphia

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Poets Down the Pub
Ernest Hilbert with Richard Price, Katy Evans-Bush, and Jon Stone
May 31st, 2010
Lamb’s Pub, Holborn, London

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Frequency North
Ernest Hilbert with Jericho Brown
March 18th, 2010
Events and Athletics Center, College of St. Rose, Albany, New York

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West Chester House Poetry Series
Ernest Hilbert with Jill Alexander Essbaum
March 24th, 2013
West Chester Poets House, West Chester University, Pennsylvania

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Red Hen in New York City 2010
Ernest Hilbert with Dave King
March 31st, 2010
Bowery Poetry Club, New York City

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Red Hen at the Ruskin
Ernest Hilbert with Tim Green
April 11th, 2010
Ruskin Arts Club, Los Angeles

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Poetry and Architecture, Lecture and Poetry Reading
Ernest Hilbert
January 28th, 2010
Blount Auditorium, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston

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2009

Swallow Anthology of New American Poets Publication Party and Reading
Ernest Hilbert with Ben Downing, Adam Kirsch, and Rachel Wetzsteon
December 2nd, 2009
Grolier Club, New York City

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POETRY: Boston Poetry Union Reading
Ernest Hilbert with Mark Schorr
November 12th, 2009
Pierre Menard Gallery, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Painted Bride Quarterly Presents
Ernest Hilbert with Lynn Levin
November 10th, 2009
Bubble House, Philadelphia

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Aim Your Arrows at the Sun Publication Party, LATR Editions
Ernest Hilbert with Heather Green and a Play by Liz Waldner
November 4th, 2009
Melville House Books, Brooklyn

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KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series
Ernest Hilbert with Sharon Mesmer
October 18th, 2009
KGB Bar, New York City

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McSweeney’s Book Tour for Bill Cotter’s Novel Fever Chart
Ernest Hilbert with Bill Cotter and Annie La Ganga
September 15th, 2009
Cyclops Books, Baltimore, Maryland

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McSweeney’s Book Tour for Bill Cotter’s Novel Fever Chart
Ernest Hilbert with Bill Cotter and Annie La Ganga
September 14th, 2009
Robin’s Books, Philadelphia

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“Reclaim the Sonnet”: Fourteen Poets Read Sonnets, Traditional and Experimental
Ernest Hilbert, featured poet, with thirteen other poets including Roddy Lumsden, Christopher Reid, and Clare Pollard
July 18th, 2009
Lemon Monkey Café, London

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West Chester Poetry Conference Friday Night Reading
Ernest Hilbert with Joshua Mehigan and Jill Alexander Essbaum
June 10th, 2009
Swope Music Hall, West Chester University, Pennsylvania

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First Books Panel, West Chester Poetry Conference
Ernest Hilbert with Jehanne Dubrow and others
June 8th, 2009
Sykes Union Theater, West Chester University, Pennsylvania

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London Calling
Ernest Hilbert with Katy Evans-Bush and Ruth Fainlight
June 2nd, 2009
The Wheatsheaf Pub, London

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Ernest Hilbert as Special Guest for “The Lewis Episodes” with the Band Mercury Radio Theater
May 8th, 2009
Khyber Pass Rock Club, Philadelphia

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Newburyport Literary Festival
Ernest Hilbert
April 24th, 2009
Congregationalist Church, Newbury, Massachusetts

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An Evening of New Poetry, National Poetry Month
Ernest Hilbert with Lynn Levin, and Paul Siegell
April 16th, 2009
Head House Books, Philadelphia

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Red Hen in New York City, 2009
Ernest Hilbert with Elise Paschen, Tim Green, and Greg Sanders
April 3rd, 2009
KGB Bar, New York City

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Sixty Sonnets Publication Party
Ernest Hilbert introduced by Alice Quinn
April 2nd, 2009
Telephone Bar, New York City

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Head House Monthly Reading Series
Ernest Hilbert with Paul Siegell
October 16th, 2009
Head House Books, Philadelphia

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2008

Red Hen in New York City, Fall 2008
Ernest Hilbert with Michael Quadland and Adam Kirsch
September 14th, 2008
Bowery Poetry Club, New York City

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Highwire Gallery Arts Festival
Ernest Hilbert with Paul Siegell
September 6th, 2008
Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia