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Virtual Poetry Reading: Terence Culleton, Ernest Hilbert, and Don Riggs with Larry Robin

Terence Culleton

Terence Culleton’s new book is A Tree and Gone, he is also author of A Communion of Saints and Eternal Life. He publishes in diverse magazines and reviews and reads widely throughout the Philadelphia region, as well as in northeastern PA and New York. His work has been featured on radio and cable TV shows in Pennsylvania and New York. and on NPR, and he has won a number of prizes and awards both for his poetry and his teaching. His work has also been set to music and recorded by Vermont composer Don Jamison for his book and CD Far Heaven, as well as by Darryl Harper and Onus for their CD Stories in Real Time. Terence lives in Langhorne PA, just outside Philadelphia, where he’s taught writing and literature for forty years.

Ernest Hilbert

Ernest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan—selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize—and Last One Out. He lives in Philadelphia where he works as a rare book dealer and book reviewer for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. His poem “Mars Ultor” was included in Best American Poetry 2018, and his poems appear in Yale Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Parnassus, Sewanee Review, Hudson Review, Boston Review, The New Republic, American Scholar, and the London Review. Visit him at www.ernesthilbert.com.

Don Riggs

Don Riggs has written verse since sixth grade. Influenced by the Beats and sonnet traditions, he integrates his drawing and words. Don has been writing a daily 14-line poem for over a decade now. “This focus on the purely formal allows my subconscious mind to feed me whatever inspiration it will; I go through my daily texts and cull the few that appeal to me, printing up only the best of those, and then selecting out of those the poems that I, at last, feel good about.” Don teaches first-year writing, Science Fiction, and related courses through Drexel University.

Larry Robin, Host — Open Reading Follows