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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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Jul 25, 20241 min read


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Jul 20, 20240 min read


Mosaic: Poems from Travels in Italy is out!
Published by Wild Dog Press. Kirkus Reviews calls it " a sumptuous poetic romp!" A fabulous article was recently published in...
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Jul 17, 20241 min read


Shortlisted at C&R Press
My poetry manuscript, Inhabited Space, was shortlisted for C&R's 2024 Awards. C&R is a poetry-focused press in existence since 2006.
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Jul 14, 20241 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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Jul 6, 20241 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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Jul 6, 20241 min read


Leeds Point nominated for Wolf Media Festival Annual Award
From Wolf Media: "It is an honor and a privilege that over the next few days we will be announcing all of our 2024 winners, projects and...
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Jun 30, 20241 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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Jun 9, 20241 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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Apr 30, 20241 min read


Lavender Aubade Published in Sinkhole
https://sinkhole9.wordpress.com/issue-1/
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Apr 23, 20241 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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Feb 27, 20241 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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Aug 17, 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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Aug 2, 20231 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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Jul 26, 20235 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 9, 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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Jul 2, 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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Jun 7, 20231 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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Apr 2, 20232 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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Apr 2, 20231 min read
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