Ernest Hilbert

Ernest Hilbert’s debut poetry collection Sixty Sonnets (2009) was described by X.J. Kennedy as “maybe the most arresting sequence we have had since John Berryman checked out of America.” His second collection, All of You on the Good Earth (2013), has been hailed as a “wonder of a book,” “original and essential,” an example of “sheer mastery of poetic form,” containing “some of the most elegant poems in American literature since the loss of Anthony Hecht.” His third collection, Caligulan (2015), has been called “brutal yet beautiful,” defined by “pleasure, clarity, and discipline,” “tough-minded and precise,” filled with a “stern, witty, and often poignant music,” “a page-turner in a way most poetry books can never be,” and "an honest book for dishonest times." His fourth book, Last One Out, appeared in 2019. Ilya Kaminsky wrote "Last One Out is a very beautiful book. It sings." Hilbert's poems have appeared in Yale Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Parnassus, Sewanee Review, Hudson Review, Boston Review, Verse, New Criterion, The New Republic, American Scholar, Hopkins Review, Oxonian Review, and the London Review, as well as several anthologies, including the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (2009) and two Penguin classroom anthologies, Poetry and Literature (both 2011). He graduated with a doctorate in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, where he edited the Oxford Quarterly. He later served as poetry editor of Random House’s magazine Bold Type and editor of Contemporary Poetry Review.

Ernest Hilbert’s tracks

• Shannon Robinson At E - Verse Equinox September 14 2022 by Ernest Hilbert
• Ernest Hilbert Reads at Otto's Shrunken Head in New York City by Ernest Hilbert
• Ernest Hilbert Reads At Dead Bards, June 2019 by Ernest Hilbert
• Philip Dykhouse Reads at Dead Bards by Ernest Hilbert
• Ernest Hilbert reads from The Wandering Rocks from Ulysses on Bloomsday 2019 by Ernest Hilbert
• David Yezzi Reads At West Chester Poetry Conference June 5th 2019 by Ernest Hilbert
• Ernest Hilbert At The Grolier Club May 16 2019 by Ernest Hilbert
• Ernest Hilbert Reads At Manayunk Arts Center May 5th, 2019 by Ernest Hilbert
• Ernest Hilbert Reads at The Whitman-Stafford House April 27th 2019 by Ernest Hilbert
• John Wall Barger Reads From The Mean Game by Ernest Hilbert