The Poet’s Story: House Party, with Ernest Hill and poet Lynn Levin

Wednesday October 25, 2023 @ 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom St. and on Zoom

On Zoom (Registration required):

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The Poet’s Story: Ernest Hilbert in conversation with poet Lynn Levin about her debut collection of short stories, House Parties

What’s it like to turn from writing poems to writing short stories? Poet and critic Ernest Hilbert speaks with poet Lynn Levin about her debut collection of short stories House Parties ($20.00, Spuyten Duyvil, 2023), named one of the best books of summer by Philadelphia Magazine. How is the fiction writing process different from the poetry writing process? What new themes and moods emerge in the House Parties stories? A Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation.

Called one of the most “poignantly witty voices of our time” (Bucks County Community College), Lynn Levin is a poet, writer, longtime professor of English at Drexel University, and, for many years, was a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Magazine’s June 2023 issue named Levin’s debut collection of short stories House Parties one of the best books of summer, calling the stories “vivid, funny, and quietly powerful…House Parties may break your heart, but it’ll never do it the same way twice.” Levin is the author of five previous collections of poems. Her website is lynnlevinpoet.com.

Ernest Hilbert is the author Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan (selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize) and Last One Out. Storm Swimmer, was selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips as the winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize. 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