Mosaic and the Italian Sonnet: Ilsley Library Talk
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...
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wordwomanvt4
Sep 181 min read
Memory Houses: Reading at Art on the Trails
The Beals Preserve in Southborough Massachusetts runs a lovely annual Art on the Trails program. Sculpture proposals are selected in the...
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wordwomanvt4
Aug 141 min read
A Sumptuous Poetic Romp Through Italy -- Kirkus Review
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...
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wordwomanvt4
Aug 48 min read
Your Summer Reading List:Twelve Books That Tell Us How the World Works
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...
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wordwomanvt4
Jul 251 min read
Animalize Your Writing!
Joining forces with my esteemed colleague from Texas, Paul Koniecki, we created this video on Animalizing Your Writing (writing from an...
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wordwomanvt4
Jul 61 min read
Poetic License: Sharon Webster at SPACE Gallery, Burlington
The intersection of music (sounds) and lyric (words) creates a unique art form which is quite familiar: the song. But what does the...
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wordwomanvt4
Jul 61 min read
Henri Cole and the Italian Poets of the Trecento
Henri Cole's Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets , 1994-2022 employs the 14-line room as a safe space to examine his relationships....
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wordwomanvt4
Jun 91 min read
Cover Preview! Mosaic: Poems from Travels in Italy
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...
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wordwomanvt4
Apr 301 min read
The Biopsy -- Sneak Preview of the Upcoming Mountain Troubador
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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wordwomanvt4
Apr 231 min read
Lavender Aubade Published in Sinkhole
https://sinkhole9.wordpress.com/issue-1/
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wordwomanvt4
Feb 271 min read
Spices and Seasonings
https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/category/spices-seasonings/ Silver Birch Press is a unique indie press in LA which runs poetry...
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wordwomanvt4
Aug 17, 20231 min read
Sonnets at MacQueen's Quinterly
http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ19/Hill-Which-Side.aspx MacQueen's Quinterly is such a marvelous publication of...
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wordwomanvt4
Aug 2, 20231 min read
What is a Qaṣīda?
In my last post, "There Be Dragons: A review of Khaled Mattawa’s Fugitive Atlas: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2020)", I mentioned a poetic form...
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wordwomanvt4
Jul 26, 20235 min read
There Be Dragons: A review of Khaled Mattawa’s Fugitive Atlas: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2020)
A Book Review by Cindy Ellen Hill By way of compass rose for his Fugitive Atlas, Libyan-American poet Khaled Mattawa invokes Egyptian...
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wordwomanvt4
Jul 9, 20231 min read
Five Elements of Poetry -- Article by Tom Montag
The July 2023 edition of Verse Virtual -- a fabulous online poetry community -- featured this article by midwestern poet Tom Montag. It's...
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Jul 2, 20231 min read
Three Sonnets at VerseVirtual
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...
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wordwomanvt4
Jun 7, 20231 min read
Five Poems at Lothlorien Poetry Journal
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2023/06/five-poems-by-cindy-ellen-hill.html?fbclid=IwAR1AffM2zKT0Q6fuKVpgyWtmf65c3vomO_iXuF6...
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wordwomanvt4
Apr 2, 20232 min read
Untangling the Knots: Poems by Buffy Aakaash (Review)
Untangling the Knots: Poems by Buffy Aakaash Untangling the Knots is a manual for life. In this cohesive collection of “How To” poems...
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wordwomanvt4
Apr 2, 20231 min read
Poem City 2023 Montpelier Vermont
https://www.kellogghubbard.org/poemcity I'm so excited to have a poem appearing in this year's Poem City Montpelier! I read at last...
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