1. Ernest Hilbert interviewed by Marty Moss-Coane for “Radio Times” on WHYY/NPR

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2. Ernest Hilbert Interviewed on “Arts Salon” for NPR-Affiliate WDIY  (Click here for the full transcript of the recording)

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3. Hilbert talks with Curtis Fox about W.D. Snodgrass for Poetry Foundation podcast (Click here for full transcript of recording)

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4. Ernest Hilbert interviewed along with musician and producer Dave Young about the album Elegies & Laments, NPR-affiliate WDIY, 88.1FM (Click here for full transcript of recording)

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5. Ernest Hilbert Interviewed by Joe Milford (Click here for full transcript of recording) 

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6. Ernest Hilbert Interviewed at Best American Poetry

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7. Ernest Hilbert Interviewed in 2003 by 3AM Magazine

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8. Ernest Hilbert Interviewed by Jessica Furiani for Behind the Sestina: Ernest Hilbert On “Hel[l]ical Double Sestina: [Metal Number One]”

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9. Ernest Hilbert Interviewed by Ken Michaels about All of You on the Good Earth for NPR-Affiliate WDIY 80.1 April 2013 (Click here for full transcript of the interview)

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10. Ernest Hilbert interviewed by Glassworks magazine in 2014

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11. Ernest Hilbert interviewed by Jonathan Creasy for New Dublin Press, Part One

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12. Ernest Hilbert interviewed by Jonathan Creasy for New Dublin Press, Part Two

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13. Ernest Hilbert interviewed by Jonathan Creasy for New Dublin Press, Part Three

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14. Ernest Hilbert interviewed along with Rita Dove and Nikky Finney for Radio Times in Review: Poet’s Edition

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15. Ernest Hilbert interviewed by Dan Loney for Sirius XM Business Radio at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania for an estimated two and a half million listeners worldwide (Click here for full transcript of recording)

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16. Ernest Hilbert interviewed at length by Mark Danowsky for the Schuylkill Valley Journal

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17. Ernest Hilbert interviewed by Tim Green for a Halloween episode of Rattlecast

18. Ernest Hilbert and Dana Gioia discuss the role of the library in a poet’s life and work for “Well Versed,” organized by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America for the 2021 California Book Fair

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19. Ernest Hilbert Talks to Tim Green on Rattlecast, July 2023

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20. Ernest Hilbert Interviewed by Luke Stromberg as part of Hilbert’s term as poet in residence at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, November 2023

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21. Ernest Hilbert Talks about the History of Books and their Material Properties for special collections at West Chester University Libraries, November 2023

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Over the past decade and a half, Ernest Hilbert has interviewed a number of poets, many in person and also before live audiences. He began while poetry editor for Random House’s magazine Bold Type in New York City and continued for the avant-garde magazine nowCulture and his own website E-Verse as well as for the Contemporary Poetry Review. Click on the titles below to read.

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• Interview with David Yezzi about his biography of Anthony Hecht

• Faith in Your Ability to Fall: An Interview with Afaa Michael Weaver

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• Universes of Loss, Love: An Interview with Donald Hall

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• The First Confessionalist: An Interview with W. D. Snodgrass

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• Music is the Main Thing: An Interview with Kenneth Koch

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• Celticly Wild, Teutonically Fussy: An Interview with X. J. Kennedy

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• I Used to Drive with My Eyes Closed: An Interview with Erica Dawson

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• The Secret Glory: An Interview with Franz Wright

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• How Black Folks Viewed the World and Remade It, Made It Swing: An Interview with Kevin Young

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• There’s Liberation in That Failure to Cohere: An Interview with D. Nurkse

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• Order Gives Rise to Invention: An Interview with Cynthia Zarin

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• Art, Enchantment, and Craft: An Interview with Eric Pankey

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• Forget, Forget: An Interview with Mark Strand

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• Incantatory Power: An Interview with David Yezzi

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• Recovering Trotskyist: An Interview with Quincy R. Lehr