1. Ernest Hilbert was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, and grew up in South Jersey.
12 Facts About Ernest Hilbert
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Ernest Hilbert received a Master's Degree and Doctorate in English Literature from St Catherine's College, Oxford.
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Between 2012 and 2019, Ernest Hilbert taught at the World of Versecraft, the low residency Master of Fine Arts program in poetry at Western State University of Colorado.
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Ernest Hilbert's classes included an intensive summer course on the practical art of the opera libretto, as well as courses during the year on the verse satire, dramatic poetry, history of the English language, studies in translation, and historical foundations of English prosody.
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Ernest Hilbert writes about books for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hopkins Review.
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On January 13,2017, Ernest Hilbert started a Dark Web poetry magazine called Cocytus.
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Ernest Hilbert's poems have been published in literary journals including The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, Boston Review, The American Scholar, The New Republic, The Hudson Review, Harvard Review, Parnassus, and The New Criterion.
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In 2014, Ernest Hilbert began work as librettist for a new opera with composer Stella Sung titled The Book Collector, commissioned by the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance.
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Ernest Hilbert supplied the story and libretto for Sung's three-act opera, The Red Silk Thread, a historical drama about Marco Polo set in the court of Kublai Khan.
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Ernest Hilbert has composed libretti for Daniel Felsenfeld, and has provided lyrics for song cycles by the composer Christopher LaRosa.
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Ernest Hilbert has worked with a number of indie rock bands, and recorded an album of himself and others including Quincy R Lehr and Paul Siegell reading from his book Sixty Sonnets, backed by several musicians, including a drummer, bassist, organist, and guitarist, as well as a full orchestra and harp, released on March 15,2013.
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Portions of the album were performed live with Ernest Hilbert's studio backing band Legendary Misbehavior, supplemented by additional musicians from the Philadelphia band East Coastamite on March 16,2013, at Fergie's Pub in Philadelphia.