Hill lives at 1015 NW Clifford Street, Pullman WA 99163. His e.mail address is orion@pullman.com, his phone number (509) 332-1120. Hill has recently had poems, essays and reviews in Gestalten, Witz, Central Park, Smelt Money, lower limit speech, Therefore, 6ix, Mirage Periodical, House Organ, Orion, Das Froliche Wohnzimmer, Juxta, Indiana English, and Focus, and has had the following poetry collections published: Another Switch (Norton Coker Press), Yes James, Yes Joyce (Loose Gravel Press), Dict: A Bridge (Xexoxial Endarchy), The Week (Runaway Spoon Press), American Standard (Runaway Spoon Press), Sixixix (Xexoxial Endarchy)

He and/or his work has been written up in Small Press Review, Taproot Reviews, Zyx, Umbrella, Meat Epoch, Central Park and Little Magazine Review

Hill's tastes in poetry are eclectic, "ranging from expansive Walt Whitman to microscopic P.Inman, from traditional lyric technique embodied by James Galvin, Louise Gluck, through Olson, Creeley, Duncan, Eigner, Blackburn, Ginsberg, Snyder to the exploratory Coolidge, Silliman, Jake Berry, and others." What he looks for any writing are two things: "surprise (usually generated by unpredictable alchemies of language) and uncertain certainty (a moment's meaning when this existence makes sense)." It is his view that "all subject matters contain these possibilities."

"Many, many contemporary poets I follow in magazines -- probably over 50 poets -- are important to me, both as a writer and as a reader. I would like to honor all those who grace my life with gripping language, but I do not in the process want to miss honoring those whose names that may slip my listing. Therefore I will take a moment of silence to pay homage to them all. (poets of yesteryear important to respondent) B.P. Nichol, William Blake, Lorine Niedecker, James Schuyler, Allen Ginsberg, Lew Welch, Frank O'Hara, Larry Eigner, and many others that have informed by writing and filled my thousands of hours of reading with resonance."

Among current critics, Hill praises "Ron Silliman and Charles Bernstein for their writing about writers who have resurfaced the face of writing since the 1970s, Richard Kostelanatz for his brilliant clarity on issues theoretical -- intermedia, melding of writing and art and/or music -- and practical -- muckraking arts funding mechanisms, distribution cliques; Bob Grumman, for his contagious enthusiasm for and playful readings of many, many experimental poets of the 1980's and 90's; and Aldon Nielsen, for his illumination of the breadth, depth, influence of black writing; Gerald Janacek, for bringing the poets and poetries of the eastern bloc out from behind the curtain for all of us to see."

Asked to speak of his own criticism, he writes, "Any criticism worth reading illuminates the processes of reading and writing -- interactions of text, imagination, and experience. Valuable criticism expands the readable, recreates the boundaries of possible meanings, nudges readers to toward and beyond the new and known. Why else read? In my critical writing, I hope to bring out enough of the light in a text I am reading so that other readers will seek it out. Then I want them to make up their own minds."

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