--- a/jupyter_cache/entry_points.py
+++ b/jupyter_cache/entry_points.py
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 # also, from importlib_metadata changed its API in v4.0, to use the python 3.10 API
 # however, because of https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata/issues/308
 # we do not assume that we have this API, and instead use try/except for the new/old APIs
-from importlib_metadata import EntryPoint
-from importlib_metadata import entry_points as eps
+from importlib.metadata import EntryPoint
+from importlib.metadata import entry_points as eps
 
 ENTRY_POINT_GROUP_READER = "jcache.readers"
 ENTRY_POINT_GROUP_EXEC = "jcache.executors"
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 dependencies = [
     "attrs",
     "click",
-    "importlib-metadata",
     "nbclient>=0.2",
     "nbformat",
     "pyyaml",