Hilde Weisert

Poet

Chapel Hill, NC
North Carolina US

Author's Bio

My work as a Geraldine Dodge Poet in the Schools and as co-founder of the Society for Veterinary Medicine and Literature reflects my strong interest in bringing literature into diverse environments and disciplines. My poetry collection The Scheme of Things was published September 2015 by David Robert Books. I co-edited the anthology, Animal Companions, Animal Doctors, Animal People: Poems, essays and stories on our essential connections (Ontario Veterinary College, UofGuelph 2012). 

Publications & Prizes

Prizes won: 

Lois Cranston Poetry Award 2008, Honorable Mention Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards 2013, Robert Frost Foundation 2015, New Millennium Writings 2015; Tiferet Poetry Prize 2016; second place Berkshire Festival of Women Writers Award 2014; NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowships 2008, 2016, 2020

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber, Selected Poems by Maxine Kumin, Swimming for the Ark by Joan Murray, Finding My Elegy by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston from Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath by Peter Davison

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Chicago
Raised in: 
Washington, DC
District Of Columbia
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Last update: Aug 23, 2020