November 2, 2023
WCU Announces Poet-in-Residence and November Events
West Chester University’s Poetry Center is pleased to welcome Ernest Hilbert as the Poet-in-Residence for the Fall, 2023, semester. Hilbert will visit WCU on select days in November and meet with students, host craft talks, and hold public readings. Information and registration for all events found at: https://www.wcupa.edu/arts-humanities/poetry/poetryConference.aspx
Ernest Hilbert is the author of the poetry collections Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan (selected as the 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. More information at www.ernesthilbert.com
November Poetry events include:
- Tuesday, November 7, at 7:30 p.m.: Opening Reading in the Special Collections Library. This event is open to the public.
- Wednesday, November 8, at 12:00 p.m.: English Department Brown Bag Lunch Talk
- Wednesday, November 8, at 4:00 p.m.: Meet and Greet with Reading in DCAP
- Wednesday, November 8, at 6:30 p.m.: Graduate Student Craft Talk and Reception in Main Hall, room 200. This event is open to the public.
- Tuesday, November 14, at 7 p.m.: Virtual Rare Book Talk via ZOOM LINK
- Thursday, November 16, at 7 p.m.: Virtual Interview with Luke Stromberg via ZOOM LINK
- Monday, November 20, at 3:30 p.m.: - CARHU FYE Class and Residency Closing Reading in Main Hall, Room 168. This event is open to the public.
The West Chester University Poetry Center offers a variety of programs and activities that help expand its mission of bringing poetry to an ever-widening audience. Since its inception in 2000, the goals of the Poetry Center have remained consistent: furthering the study and appreciation of poetry, providing the nation's finest instruction in the diverse traditional techniques of poetry, providing an international forum for the discussion of poetic form and prosody, training teachers in the art of teaching poetry and poetic form, and fostering the necessary dialogue between practicing poets and critics in a culture that too often separates them. The Poetry Center also recognizes poetic achievement through the Iris N. Spencer Awards, which celebrate emerging poets at the undergraduate level, and through the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, which goes to an unpublished book-length collection of poems.