Merrill Fellow, Ernest Hilbert to read at Bank Square Books

Please join us at Bank Square Books for a reading by James Merrill Fellow, Ernest Hilbert.

Ernest Hilbert is the author of the poetry collections Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan—selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize—and Last One Out. His fifth book, Storm Swimmer, was selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips as the winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize. He has written about books for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and the Times Literary Supplement. His poem “Mars Ultor” was included in Best American Poetry, and his poetry has appeared widely in such journals as Yale Review, American Poetry Review, BOMB, Harvard Review, Arion, Sewanee Review, Hudson Review, Boston Review, The New Republic, American Scholar, and the London Review. In 2023 he was awarded the Meringoff Writing Award for Poetry from the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. He lives with his wife and son in Philadelphia, where he works as a rare book dealer. Visit him at www.ernesthilbert.com

Pre-order Storm Swimmer now to pick up at the event and have signed by Ernest himself! https://banksquarebooks.com/search?q=storm%20swimmer