I’ll be reading with poets from the Czech Republic and Scotland at the excellent Head House Books in Philadelphia. Come on by and check it out!

Tuesday, March 19th, 6:30PM

Head House Books
619 S 2nd St
Philadelphia, PA 19147-2410
(215) 923-9525

FREE and open to the public.

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. 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 sometimes writes about books for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Visit him at www.ernesthilbert.com

Petr Hruška is a poet and literary historian who lives in Ostrava in the Czech Republic. His poetry has won a number of state and international awards, including the Czech State Award for Literature. He won the Magnesia Litera, the most prestigious annual literary award in the Czech Republic, for his newest collection, Spatřil jsem svou tvář (I Caught Sight of My Face, 2022). Everything Indicates: Selected Poems, translated into English by Jonathan Bolton (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at Harvard University), was published in 2023 by Blue Diode Press.

Rob A. Mackenzie is from Glasgow and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has published two poetry pamphlets and four full collections. The Book of Revelation, his third collection, was published in 2020 and Woof! Woof! Woof! was published in July 2023, both from Salt Publishing. His work has featured three times in the SPL’s annual Best Scottish Poems list, and his work has been translated into French, Italian and Czech. For ten years, he was reviews editor of Magma Poetry magazine. He runs Blue Diode Press.