The Hill Writes Blog

Happy National Poetry Month! I'm in Florida at the Wolf Media Festival , meeting writers and filmmakers, giving poetry workshops, and...

Becoming involved in National Poetry Month over the last ten years has been transformational for me. April was always, indeed, the...

Book cover art helps sets a mood for the poetry within, inviting readers to enter into a world of tone and color different from their...

The sonnet originated in Sicily, and several hundred years passed before it moved into English and the form we've come to know as the...

The Beals Preserve in Southborough Massachusetts runs a lovely annual Art on the Trails program. Sculpture proposals are selected in the...

My new poetry book MOSAIC: POEMS FROM TRAVELS IN ITALY is hot off the press from Wild Dog Press. Kirkus Review calls it "A sumptuous...

Does it ever seem to you like we are living on a not-quite-cohesive planet a badly crafted science fiction novel? A world in which you...

Joining forces with my esteemed colleague from Texas, Paul Koniecki, we created this video on Animalizing Your Writing (writing from an...

The intersection of music (sounds) and lyric (words) creates a unique art form which is quite familiar: the song. But what does the...

Henri Cole's Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets , 1994-2022 employs the 14-line room as a safe space to examine his relationships....

There are some things you can tell about a book from it's cover. No AI images for me -- these extraordinary photos were taken in Rome in...

Thrilled to have my poem The Biopsy included in this sneak preview of the upcoming Mountain Troubador -- the literary magazine of the...

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https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/category/spices-seasonings/ Silver Birch Press is a unique indie press in LA which runs poetry...

http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ19/Hill-Which-Side.aspx MacQueen's Quinterly is such a marvelous publication of...

In my last post, "There Be Dragons: A review of Khaled Mattawa’s Fugitive Atlas: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2020)", I mentioned a poetic form...

A Book Review by Cindy Ellen Hill By way of compass rose for his Fugitive Atlas, Libyan-American poet Khaled Mattawa invokes Egyptian...

The July 2023 edition of Verse Virtual -- a fabulous online poetry community -- featured this article by midwestern poet Tom Montag. It's...

Grateful to be part of the VerseVirtual community, and my thanks that they picked up these three sonnets while the ink was still wet on...