I’ll be reading upstairs at Fergie’s Pub with Dennis and Sheleen on Wednesday, January 29th at 7PM. I’ll be reading from Storm Swimmer as well as two new poems from my work in progress High Ashes as published in Arion magazine.

An open reading will follow. Come on down!

Upstairs at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, 215-928-8118

FREE!

Ernest Hilbert is the author of the poetry collections Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan—selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize—Last One Out, and Storm Swimmer, selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips as the winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize. Visit him at www.ernesthilbert.com

Dennis Hinrichsen is the author is eleven books of poetry. His most recent is Dominion + Selected Poems (Green Linden, 2024). Previous books have won the Akron, Field, Tampa, Michael Waters, Grid and Wishing Jewel Poetry Prizes. New work can be found in The Indianapolis Review, Midwest Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Swing, and Third Coast.

Sheleen McElhinney is the author of Every Little Vanishing, the winner of the 2021 Write Bloody Publishing book award. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Lily Poetry Review, Bayou Magazine, Slant, Free State Review, and elsewhere. She currently teaches poetry to adults in recovery from substance abuse. She lives in Bucks County, Pa, where she was born and raised.