In early 2003, he hosted an evening of readings at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, entitled "The Future Knows Everything: New American Writing," which featured the poets Rebecca Wolff and Geoffrey Nutter and the novelists Liz Brown and Suzanne Wise. On April 16, 2013, Marty Moss-Coane interviewed Hilbert for an hour on her WHYY program Radio Times, which is syndicated nationally by NPR. The interview touched on Hilbert's troubled past and struggles for recognition. In December 2013, Hilbert was interviewed by WHYY's Peter Crimmins for a radio feature titled "The Sonnet Makes a Small Comeback," in which Hilbert is quoted as saying "I think some sonnets are too old-fashioned, something that happens when people write in an old form. They suddenly adopt an old-fashioned formality and diction and focus. They are very limited in thinking about what the poem can be about. That's a hang-up even good poets can fall prey to." A recording of Ernest Hilbert reading "Broad and Washington," engineered by Peter Crimmins, was broadcast on WHYY/NPR 90.7FM as part of the News Works Tonight New Year's program the evening of December 31, 2013. A recording of Hilbert's poem “Haunts” aired on WHYY FM, Philadelphia's NPR Station, 90.9 MHz, on April 24, 2018 as part of a National Poetry Month feature on Morning Edition, hosted by Jennifer Lynn, called “Poetry Conveys Sense of Philadelphia Community.” On February 12, 2016, Hilbert appeared as a guest on the Wharton School's Sirius XM business radio to talk about the business of rare books and read his poem "At the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair" from "Caligulan". The show has an estimated two and a half million listeners worldwide. A recording of Hilbert’s poem “The Pessimist Prepares for What May Well Be His Last Winter,” originally recorded in 2009 at WDIY radio in Bethlehem, PA, aired on WXPN 88.5 FM Philadelphia’s New Year’s Sleepy Hollow program, December 23, 2018.