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.
Published: 27 February 2009
© 2009 Sean Hill and
Southern
Spaces 
