Monday @ KGB: Ernest Hilbert & Sharon Mesmer

Ernest
Hilbert
is the editor of the Contemporary Poetry
Review. He was educated at Oxford University, where he edited the Oxford Quarterly. He later became the
poetry editor for Random House’s magazine Bold
Type in New York City. He is an antiquarian book dealer in Philadelphia,
where he lives with his wife, an archaeologist. He hosts the popular blog and
video show www.everseradio.com. His debut collection is Sixty Sonnets (2009).

Sharon Mesmer is a Fulbright Senior Specialist candidate and recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellowships. The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose) and Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books) were published in 2008. Here blog is available online and elsewhere.