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

Registration required. Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuqsqzkuHdOJFz8Z28iwB70Roo7UdsWx

Join us for the Philadelphia launch of Ernest Hilbert’s new collection of poems.

Storm Swimmer (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry)

“Ernest Hilbert’s Storm Swimmer is a gleaming cornucopia of dreams, nightmares, tenderness, and grace. It is a book of great feeling and of great technical skill. Everything in it is sacrificed for poetry, which is why everything in this beautiful book lives.”—Rowan Ricardo Phillips, author of Heaven and judge

Copies of the book will be available at a discounted rate of $10. Join us!

Ernest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan, and Last One Out.

Guest reader April Lindner is the author of Skin, and This Bed Our Bodies Shaped.

Guest reader David Hale Sylvester is author of Traveling at the Speed of Life and One Hug at a Time: 99 Stories From the Man Who Embraced the World.

Host John Wall Barger is author of Smog Mother and has appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, Poetry Ireland Review, and many other journals.