Fall 2023
Fall Poet in Residence
Ernest Hilbert
The West Chester University Poetry Center is pleased to welcome Ernest Hilbert as Fall 2023 Poet in Residence. Hilbert will visit campus in October to meet with students, host a craft talk, and hold readings which are open to the public. Stay tuned for more details.
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
and appeared in 2023. He lives in Philadelphia where he works as a rare book dealer
and book critic for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Fine Books and Collections. His poem “Mars Ultor” was included in Best American Poetry 2018, and his poems appear in Yale Review, American Poetry Review, BOMB, Harvard Review, Parnassus, 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. Visit him at www.ernesthilbert.com