The Morning with Many Tongues
Sean Hill, Stanford University
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Overview:
Set in locations around his hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill reads four poems from his debut collection, Blood
Ties & Brown Liquor. Drawing upon oral history and close observation, Hill explores biography as well as racial history through several generations of a fictional African American family.
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Readings:
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"Just as Sure" (1:29 min.) |
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"Nigger Street 1937" (1:28 min.) |
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"The State House Aflame 1833" (1:56 min.) |
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"In Memory Hill Cemetery" (2:52 min.) |
About Sean Hill:
Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean
Hill has an M.F.A. from the University of Houston, where he was awarded
the 2003 Michener Fellowship for poetry. He has also received fellowships
from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, and the University
of Wisconsin, and work-study scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Ploughshares, Pleiades, Crab
Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, and other literary journals, and in the
anthologies Blues Poems, Gathering Ground, and The Ringing
Ear. In 2008, the University of Georgia Press published his first
book, Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. Hill is currently a Stegner
Fellow at Stanford University.
"The Morning with Many Tongues" is part of the Poets in Place series, a Research Collaboration in the Humanities initiative funded through Emory University’s Presidential Woodruff Fund, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost. Series producers are Natasha Trethewey and Allen Tullos.
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