WHAT’S NEW
January 22: Rebecca Hazelwood wrote a post on "Spring 1986," one of the poems from Dangerous Goods, on her blog Structure and Style.
January 10: Brian Spear wrote a post on Dangerous Goods on his blog New in Des Moines.
December 18: Milkweed Editions posted the first seventeen pages of Dangerous Goods on Scribd.
October 16: Dangerous Goods is The Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection for January. You can get the book a month before its official publication by subscribing to The Rumpus Poetry Book Club!
October 10: The poet Joan Kane picked Dangerous Goods as one of her five picks for good (Alaskan) reads.
"Dangerous Goods" by Sean Hill
A book of poetry by one of Alaska's most unsung literary heroes, the book is not out until 2014, but an advance copy secures Hill's place as a major talent in American poetry. --Joan Kane
October 8: The Harvard Review published my poem "Still Life with Starlings and Man" in their current issue along with poems by G. C. Waldrep, Timothy Donnelly, Tomaž Šalamun, and Stephen Dunn.
August 21: The New England Review published my short short story "They Drove" on their website as part of their Secret Americas series.
August 17: I'm returning to Fairbanks, Alaska to be a part of the creative writing faculty at UA-Fairbanks for the 2013-2014 academic year.
July 3: My second poetry collection, Dangerous Goods, is now available for pre-order from the publisher, Milkweed Editions, and Amazon!
CALENDAR
November 9, Saturday 9:00 a.m.
Keynote Speaker with Judson Mitcham
Georgia Literary Festival
Georgia Military College Goldstein Center
Milledgeville, GA
November 9, Saturday 3:00 p.m.
Reading with Sandra Worsham and Man Martin
Georgia Literary Festival
Georgia Military College Goldstein Center
Milledgeville, GA
February 21, Friday
Poetry Workshop and Public Reading
UAA
Kenai Peninsula College
Kachemak Bay Campus
Homer, AK
February 26 - March 1, Wednesday – Saturday
Cave Canem Fellows Reading at the Richard Hugo House
and
AWP Reading Panel: "You Are Here: A Pacific Northwest Poetry Sampler"
with Megan Snyder-Camp, C.S. Giscombe, Gregory Sherl, Laura Jensen
and
Milkweed Reading
and
Book signing for Dangerous Goods
Associated Writers & Writing Programs Conference
Seattle, WA
more to come
Select Past Readings
June 16, 2013 Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference, Homer, AK
May 20, 2012 Poetry Conference at the Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, MN
September 26, 2011 Writers and Critics Series, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
April 29, 2011 2nd Annual Great Twin Cities Poetry Read, Normandale Commmunity College, Bloomington, MN
April 2, 2011 She Said, He Said Reading, Wild Hare Bistro and Coffeehouse, Bemidji, MN
February 10, 2011 The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series, Hope College, Holland, MI
January 2, 2011 Poetrio Reading Series, Malaprop’s Bookstore / Café, Asheville, NC
October 23, 2010 Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS
August 24, 2010 Word for Word Reading Series, Bryant Park, New York, NY
August 11, 2010 Bemidji Book Festival, Bemidji, MN
April 17, 2010 Alabama Book Festival, Birmingham, AL
April 3, 2010 Black Nature Anthology Reading, Poets House, New York City, NY
September 24, 2009 Sustainable Literature Reading Series, UW-Barron County, Rice Lake, WI
April 10, 2009 Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series, UA-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
February 26, 2009 Glass Bookcase Series, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, UW-Madison, Madison, WI
January 26, 2009 Sarabande Reading Series at the Pink Door, Louisville, KY
November 16, 2008 Park University Ethnic Voices Poetry Series, Kansas City, MO
October 5, 2008 Litquake Literary Festival, San Francisco, CA
April 9, 2008 Ringing Ear Anthology Reading, University of Houston, Houston, TX
April 4, 2008 Flannery O’Connor Festival, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA
April 3, 2008 Cave Canem Symposium, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
October 4, 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize Reading, NYU, New York City, NY
February 21, 2007 Writer’s Voice Series, Chico State University, Chico, CA
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