# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Rick Hilles & Samyak Shertok POETRY READING
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Sunday November 9, 2025 at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at Bird in Hand Cafe & Bookstore (Baltimore) with poets Rick Hilles & Samyak Shertok! The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem (1 poem, 3 min. or less). Now in our 7th year, the reading series is sponsored by Smartish Pace and Baltimore Poets Theatre. Hosts: Clare Banks, David Yezzi, Stephen Reichert, and Dan Todd.

Rick Hilles, a recipient of the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Fulbright, and a Whiting Writers Award, is the author of several poetry collections, most recently My Roberto Clemente (C&R Press). His poems, translations, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Harper’s, Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, Michigan Quarterly Review, Narrative, Poetry, Salmagundi, Smartish Pace, and Southern Review, among many other places. He teaches in the MFA Program at Vanderbilt University.

Samyak Shertok’s debut collection, No Rhododendron (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025), was selected by Kimiko Hahn for the 2024 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. His poems appear in The Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, POETRY, Shenandoah, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and the Jake Adam York Prize, he has been awarded the Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Poetry, the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Originally from Nepal, he is an assistant professor at Mississippi State University. For more, please visit samyakshertok.com.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/baltimore/rick-hilles-and-samyak-shertok-poetry-reading/200028977374537
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, theatre, open-mic, sports
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 22

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Baltimore
- **state**: MD
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Bird in Hand Charles Village
- **lat**: 39.327894568751
- **long**: -76.61672393125
- **full address**: Bird in Hand Charles Village, 11 E 33rd Street,Baltimore,MD,United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Rick Hilles & Samyak Shertok POETRY READING being held?
  - **A:** Rick Hilles & Samyak Shertok POETRY READING takes place on Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 04:00 pm to Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 04:00 pm at Bird in Hand Charles Village, 11 E 33rd Street,Baltimore,MD,United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Rick Hilles & Samyak Shertok POETRY READING?
  - **A:** Rick Hilles & Samyak Shertok POETRY READING is organized by The HOT L Poets Series.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Rick Hilles & Samyak Shertok POETRY READING is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Baltimore, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Rick Hilles & Samyak Shertok POETRY READING sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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