Sean Patrick Hill is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon. He earned his MA in Writing from Portland State University, where he won the Burnam Graduate Award. He received a grant from Regional Arts and Culture Council and residencies from Montana Artists Refuge, Fishtrap, and the Oregon State University Trillium Project. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Exquisite Corpse, elimae, diode, In Posse Review, Willow Springs, RealPoetik, New York Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Juked, Sawbuck, Redactions, and Quarter After Eight. He is a regular blogger for Fringe Magazine. His blog site is http://theimaginedfield.blogspot.com.

In answer to our question of why he writes, Sean responded:

“What keeps me moving forward is the understanding that I have not yet written the one great poem, the definitive song; like Whitman speaking of the 'Immortal Poem' I am forever seeking that kind of perfection in my work.”

 

 

 

 

   
 

 

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