My poem "Why the inland people call some kinds of water kill" (the title actually two lines of Heather McHugh's) appears in Issue 74 of CutBank. The poem was written during my tenure at the Vermont Studio Center in July of 2010.
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© Mariano Avila
Slash Pine Press, 2013
BlazeVOX, 2011
Paper Kite Press, 2010
Menasha Ridge Press, 2012
Avalon Publishing, 2010
Holler Poets Series
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 8 PM
Al's Bar
601 North Limestone, Lexington
Big Big Mess
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Annabell's Bar & Lounge
784 W. Market Street, Akron
Magers & Quinn Booksellers
Friday, May 31, 2013, 7 PM
3038 Hennepin Ave South, Minneapolis
So and So Series
Saturday, May 4, 2013, 8:00 PM
The Morning Times Cafe
10 E Hargett St, Raleigh
Brick Street Poetry
Thursday, May 2, 2013, 6:30 PM
Eagle Creek Coffee Company
10 S. Main Street, Zionsville
Fusebox
Saturday, April 20, 2013, 7:00 PM
1908 Chamberlain Ave, Chattanooga
The New Yinzer Presents
Thursday, March 21, 2013, 8:00 PM
Modern Formations Art Gallery
4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh
Wit Rabbit Reading Series
Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 7:30 PM
Quencher's Saloon
2401 N. Western Avenue, Chicago
Speak Social Series
Friday, October 19, 2012, 7:30 PM
Java Brewing Company
1707 Bardstown Road, Louisville
Bon Mot/ley Reading Series
June 9, 2011
Clifton Cultural Arts Center
3711 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
Morrison Gallery Reading Series
March 24, 2011
Elizabethtown Community College
600 College Street Road, Elizabethtown, KY
InKY Reading Series
January 14, 2011
The Bard's Town
1801 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY
Sean Patrick Hill
© Mariano Avila
About Me
- Sean Patrick Hill
- Sean Patrick Hill is a graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, and a recipient of an Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. He works as a freelance writer and copywriter in Louisville, Kentucky.
Hibernaculum
Slash Pine Press, 2013
Interstitial
BlazeVOX, 2011
The Imagined Field
Paper Kite Press, 2010
Hiking Kentucky's Red River Gorge: Your Definitive Guide to the Jewel of the Southeast
Menasha Ridge Press, 2012
Moon Outdoors Oregon Hiking
Avalon Publishing, 2010
Readings 2011-2015
Wit Rabbit Reads
Tuesday, June 2
Chicago
Spalding BFA Literary salon
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Hillbilly Tea
120 South 1st Street, Louisville
"Double Vision" Reading
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Pyro Gallery
909 East Market Street, Louisville
Writer's Block Festival
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Pyro Gallery
909 East Market Street, Louisville
Slash Pine Poetry Festival
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Green Bar
2350 4th Street, Tuscaloosa
Impossible Language
Saturday, January 18, 2014, 7:30 PM
Crosstown Arts
430 North Cleveland, Memphis
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 8 PM
Al's Bar
601 North Limestone, Lexington
Big Big Mess
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Annabell's Bar & Lounge
784 W. Market Street, Akron
Magers & Quinn Booksellers
Friday, May 31, 2013, 7 PM
3038 Hennepin Ave South, Minneapolis
So and So Series
Saturday, May 4, 2013, 8:00 PM
The Morning Times Cafe
10 E Hargett St, Raleigh
Brick Street Poetry
Thursday, May 2, 2013, 6:30 PM
Eagle Creek Coffee Company
10 S. Main Street, Zionsville
Fusebox
Saturday, April 20, 2013, 7:00 PM
1908 Chamberlain Ave, Chattanooga
The New Yinzer Presents
Thursday, March 21, 2013, 8:00 PM
Modern Formations Art Gallery
4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh
Wit Rabbit Reading Series
Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 7:30 PM
Quencher's Saloon
2401 N. Western Avenue, Chicago
Speak Social Series
Friday, October 19, 2012, 7:30 PM
Java Brewing Company
1707 Bardstown Road, Louisville
Bon Mot/ley Reading Series
June 9, 2011
Clifton Cultural Arts Center
3711 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
Morrison Gallery Reading Series
March 24, 2011
Elizabethtown Community College
600 College Street Road, Elizabethtown, KY
InKY Reading Series
January 14, 2011
The Bard's Town
1801 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY
Poetry Publications (Some forthcoming)
- Adroit Journal
- Alba (1)
- Alba (2)
- Apocryphal Text
- Bateau
- Battered Suitcase
- Big Bridge
- Blackbird
- Blood Orange Review
- The Blueshift Journal
- Catch Up!
- Cimarron Review
- Cirque
- The Collagist
- Copper Nickel
- Corduroy Mtn
- CutBank
- DIAGRAM
- Diode (1)
- Diode (2)
- Ditch
- Drunken Boat
- Elimae (1)
- Elimae (2)
- Elimae (3)
- The Equalizer
- Eratio
- Exquisite Corpse
- Foliate Oak
- Forklift, Ohio
- 42opus
- Fourteen Hills
- Front Porch Journal
- Ghoti Fish
- Harpur Palate
- High Desert Journal
- Hayden's Ferry Review
- ILK
- In Posse Review
- Interrupture
- Irreverent Fish
- JERRY
- Juked (1)
- Juked (2)
- LIT
- The Louisville Review
- The Lumberyard
- MiPOesias
- MUSE
- My Name Is Mud
- New York Quarterly
- Oranges & Sardines
- Painted Bride Quarterly
- Pax Americana
- Pedestal Magazine
- Phantom
- The Pinch Journal
- Pineapple War
- Portland Review
- Quarter After Eight
- RealPoetik
- Redactions
- Rio Grande Review
- Sawbuck
- 751 Magazine
- Silk Road
- Six Sentences
- Sixth Finch
- Smartish Pace
- Snow Monkey
- Softblow
- Spork (1)
- Spork (2)
- Sugar Mule
- Swink
- Tampa Review
- 13 Miles From Cleveland
- Toronto Quarterly
- TYPO
- Unlikely 2.0
- Unsaid Magazine
- Weave
- West Wind Review
- Willow Springs
- Willows Wept Review
- Windfall
- Word Riot
- YB
- Yes, Poetry
- Zoland Poetry
Published Travel Articles, Book Reviews, Journalism
- Field Work (Kentucky Monthly)
- Gross Income (LEO Weekly)
- The Blue Raven (Kentucky Monthly)
- True Wilderness (Kentucky Monthly)
- Assignment: Research Your Adjunct Professors (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Review of Ernst Meister's In Time's Rift (Kenyon Review Online)
- Cave Hill Cemetery (Kentucky Monthly)
- Review of Graham Foust's Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems (Iowa Review)
- An Authentic Ground of Hope: A Conversation with Wendell Berry (Kentucky Monthly)
- The Food Renaissance in New Louisville (Kentucky Monthly)
- Review of David Ferry's Bewilderment (LEO Weekly)
- The Complicated Animal (LEO Weekly)
- A Long Tradition (Kentucky Monthly)
- Review of Sam Leith's Words Like Loaded Pistols (LEO Weekly)
- A Poem Argues for its Own Existence (Gulf Coast)
- A Powerful Voice for Good (Kentucky Monthly)
- Trail Mix (Kentucky Monthly)
- Review of Michael Goodwin's Economix (LEO Weekly)
- Review of Sam Harris' Free Will (LEO Weekly)
- Review of Michael Gazzaniga's Who's in Charge? (LEO Weekly)
- Loved to Death (LEO Weekly)
- Review of Tomas Tranströmer's The Great Enigma and The Deleted World (LEO Weekly)
- Review of Jack Gilbert's Collected Poems (The Oregonian)
- Review of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow (LEO Weekly)
- Review of Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve (LEO Weekly)
- Interview with G.C. Waldrep (Poetry Daily)
- Microreview of Michele Glazer's On Tact, & the Made-Up World (Boston Review)
- Write On (LEO Weekly)
- Living in a Loop: Interview with Ben Mirov (Gulf Coast)
- Interview with Timothy Donnelly (Guernica)
- Review of Timothy Donnelly's The Cloud Corporation (LEO Weekly)
- Review of Matthew Zapruder's Come On All You Ghosts (Bookslut)
- Review of Julie Doxsee's Objects for a Fog Death (Bookslut)
- Review of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom (LEO Weekly)
- Review of Matthew Zapruder's Come On All You Ghosts (LEO Weekly)
- Review of Graham Foust's A Mouth in California (Rain Taxi)
- Review of Ben Mirov's Ghost Machine (Bookslut)
- Review of Justin Halpern's Sh*t My Dad Says (LEO Weekly)
- Review of Joshua Marie Wilkinson's Selenography (Bookslut)
- Review of James Galvin's As Is (Bookslut)
- Dipping into the Best of Oregon's Mountain Lakes (the Oregonian)
- Review of Gregory Orr's How Beautiful The Beloved (Bookslut)
- Review of Jack Gilbert's The Dance Most Of All (The Oregonian)
- Review of Mark Yakich's Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Bookslut)
- Back in the Saddle on Saddle Mountain (Travel Oregon)
- Winter Days on the Coast but Not Like Winter (Travel Oregon)
- Port Angeles Murder Case (All Voices)
- Death in the Snow (All Voices)
- Smoking Waters (Writer's Dojo)
- Summits in the Gorge (Washington Trails Magazine)
- Review of Billy Collins Ballistics (The Oregonian)
- Autumn Touring the McKenzie-Santiam Loop (The Oregonian)
- Paulann Petersen Profile (the Bee)
- Just Dune It (Travel Oregon)
- Art-Hopping Through Portland (Travel Oregon)
- Traveling Through Hood River's Fruit Loop (Travel Oregon)
- Routes to Like When Taking a Hike (The Oregonian)
- Going Bird Watching in Oaks Bottom (The Bee)
- Birding in Oaks Bottom (Travel Oregon)
- A Perfect Saturday in Eugene (Travel Oregon)
- You're Getting Warmer (The Oregonian)
- Review of William Stafford's Another World Instead (The Oregonian)
Fringe Magazine Blogs
- More Nitpicky Thoughts on American Mediocrity
- Animals Are Entering Our Lives
- The Herd Mentality Prevails in the Windy City
- Freedom From The Known When The Known Is Everything We Know
- The Ravishing Nonsense of Poetry
- "For man is a vain thing..."
- Black Friday, or Death on the Blitz Line
- The Nobel, The Zeitgeist, and the All-American Poem
- The Relevance of Rexroth
- News From The Center of American Poetry
- Poetry in the Age of Fellowship
Readings 2010
Fort George Poetry Festival
August 29, 2-5 PM
1260 S Floyd Street, Louisville, KY
Lowe Lecture Hall
July 11, 7 PM
Vermont Studio Center
Main Street, Johnson, VT
Mac's Backs~Books on Coventry
June 9, 7 PM
1820 Coventry Road, Cleveland Heights, OH
Dire Literary Series
April 2, 8 PM
Out of the Blue Art Gallery
106 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA
August 29, 2-5 PM
1260 S Floyd Street, Louisville, KY
Lowe Lecture Hall
July 11, 7 PM
Vermont Studio Center
Main Street, Johnson, VT
Mac's Backs~Books on Coventry
June 9, 7 PM
1820 Coventry Road, Cleveland Heights, OH
Dire Literary Series
April 2, 8 PM
Out of the Blue Art Gallery
106 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA
Readings 2009
Oregon Literary Review First Wednesday Reading
May 6, 7 PM
Blackbird Wine Shop, 3519 NE 44th, Portland, OR
Mountain Writers Series Reading
Wednesday, April 15, 7 PM
The Press Club, 2621 SE Clinton, Portland, OR
Portland State University Language & Literature Festival
Thursday, March 5, 9 PM
228 Smith Memorial Student Union, Portland, OR
Three Friends Mondays: Caffeinated Art
w/ Doug Marx and Andy Budor
Monday, January 12, 7 PM
Three Friends Coffee House
Portland, OR
William Stafford Birthday Celebration Reading
w/Bill Siverly, Michael McDowell, Shelley Kirk-Rudeen and Katy McKinney
Tigard Public Library
Saturday, January 3, 2 PM
Tigard, OR
May 6, 7 PM
Blackbird Wine Shop, 3519 NE 44th, Portland, OR
Mountain Writers Series Reading
Wednesday, April 15, 7 PM
The Press Club, 2621 SE Clinton, Portland, OR
Portland State University Language & Literature Festival
Thursday, March 5, 9 PM
228 Smith Memorial Student Union, Portland, OR
Three Friends Mondays: Caffeinated Art
w/ Doug Marx and Andy Budor
Monday, January 12, 7 PM
Three Friends Coffee House
Portland, OR
William Stafford Birthday Celebration Reading
w/Bill Siverly, Michael McDowell, Shelley Kirk-Rudeen and Katy McKinney
Tigard Public Library
Saturday, January 3, 2 PM
Tigard, OR