Michael Hill
@ccprof.bsky.social
Teacher, dad, union thug, poet. I teach writing and philosophy at Henry Ford College in Dearborn.
I haven't submitted work to any journal since August due to teaching and some health issues, but I could not let this opportunity pass. Most of my work looks for the awkward spaces between love, faith, and sex, so I am honored to contribute to the conversation. Maybe you should too.
It's closing time! Last call to submit your s*xy and divine poems for the Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize.
One Winner will be awarded $1000 + publication & nomination for Pushcart, Best Spiritual Literature, Best of the Net, or Best New Poets + lifetime ONLY POEMS membership 💙
All good wishes! ☺️
One Winner will be awarded $1000 + publication & nomination for Pushcart, Best Spiritual Literature, Best of the Net, or Best New Poets + lifetime ONLY POEMS membership 💙
All good wishes! ☺️
November 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I haven't submitted work to any journal since August due to teaching and some health issues, but I could not let this opportunity pass. Most of my work looks for the awkward spaces between love, faith, and sex, so I am honored to contribute to the conversation. Maybe you should too.
The Nobel Peace Prize for Literature will be announced on Thursday, so unless you're calling from Sweden that day, I won't be answering my phone. I mean, someone on the committee has to appreciate poems that explore an awkward, yet healthy, masculinity in narratives about the domestic front, right?
October 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The Nobel Peace Prize for Literature will be announced on Thursday, so unless you're calling from Sweden that day, I won't be answering my phone. I mean, someone on the committee has to appreciate poems that explore an awkward, yet healthy, masculinity in narratives about the domestic front, right?
This is not the worst way to spend a beautiful fall afternoon. Purchase copies or access of the newest issue of @inkinthirds.bsky.social at www.magcloud.com/browse/issue... and then check out my poem “Water/Skin” on page 38. Such a beautiful journal, well worth your time.
October 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is not the worst way to spend a beautiful fall afternoon. Purchase copies or access of the newest issue of @inkinthirds.bsky.social at www.magcloud.com/browse/issue... and then check out my poem “Water/Skin” on page 38. Such a beautiful journal, well worth your time.
I made it to the finalist stage in some recent single poem and chapbook contests. I mean, just a few, but a few is better than straight out rejection. I’m surprised how good not winning can feel.
September 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I made it to the finalist stage in some recent single poem and chapbook contests. I mean, just a few, but a few is better than straight out rejection. I’m surprised how good not winning can feel.
Check out my poem "Water/Skin" in the new issue of *Ink in Thirds* (Fall 2025, 6.2) @inkinthirds.bsky.social, a journal full of wonderful writing and art. The print version costs a couple of well-spent dimes, but you can also purchase an online version for $3.33.
inkinthirds.org/vol-6-i-2/
inkinthirds.org/vol-6-i-2/
vol 6 i.2 - Ink In Thirds
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald Come explore vol 6, i.2...
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September 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Check out my poem "Water/Skin" in the new issue of *Ink in Thirds* (Fall 2025, 6.2) @inkinthirds.bsky.social, a journal full of wonderful writing and art. The print version costs a couple of well-spent dimes, but you can also purchase an online version for $3.33.
inkinthirds.org/vol-6-i-2/
inkinthirds.org/vol-6-i-2/
Reposted by Michael Hill
ICE has fatally shot an Illinois resident close to a school. Schools must be safe zones; ICE should not be creating this fear for our kids and families and communities- I join the IFT in calling for a full accounting
Joint Statement from IFT President Dan Montgomery and West Suburban Teachers Union President Kyle Stern: Condemning ICE Agents’ Fatal Shooting of Franklin Park Resident
https://www.ift-aft.org/post/joint-statement-condemning-ice-agents-fatal-shooting-of-franklin-park-resident
https://www.ift-aft.org/post/joint-statement-condemning-ice-agents-fatal-shooting-of-franklin-park-resident
September 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
ICE has fatally shot an Illinois resident close to a school. Schools must be safe zones; ICE should not be creating this fear for our kids and families and communities- I join the IFT in calling for a full accounting
Why am I getting followed by a whole lot of "women" who love my posts and are just looking for friends? Do I come off as that lonely and forlorn? Or are these new friends really turned on by political/poetic/pedagogical content? Ah well, at least I'm reaching the bots.
September 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Why am I getting followed by a whole lot of "women" who love my posts and are just looking for friends? Do I come off as that lonely and forlorn? Or are these new friends really turned on by political/poetic/pedagogical content? Ah well, at least I'm reaching the bots.
Mr. Rove, Dr. Arendt would like a word: “Thought..is still possible [when] men live under the conditions of political freedom. [N]o other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.” Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition. (1958)
Karl Rove: “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. .... We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” (Ron Suskind, NYTimes Magazine, Oct. 17, 2004).
September 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Mr. Rove, Dr. Arendt would like a word: “Thought..is still possible [when] men live under the conditions of political freedom. [N]o other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.” Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition. (1958)
Violence begets violence begets violence. Peace is attainable by breaking that chain with critical thinking, discourse, and the promotion of mutual rights. If a group commits to violence, all the rest can do is practice peace, support others who seek peace, and work to persuade those who don’t.
September 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Violence begets violence begets violence. Peace is attainable by breaking that chain with critical thinking, discourse, and the promotion of mutual rights. If a group commits to violence, all the rest can do is practice peace, support others who seek peace, and work to persuade those who don’t.
My dog may be the only one in the house who is grateful I’ve been forced to lay flat all week due to the sadistic tendencies of my back.
September 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
My dog may be the only one in the house who is grateful I’ve been forced to lay flat all week due to the sadistic tendencies of my back.
There's probably a poem somewhere in being flattened by back pain. If I wasn't so drugged up, maybe I could find it.
September 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
There's probably a poem somewhere in being flattened by back pain. If I wasn't so drugged up, maybe I could find it.
Reposted by Michael Hill
Please check out my new poem (as well as the other fine work) in the new issue of MINYAN. (Special thanks to editor Liz Marlow.)
It should be easy enough,
just choose a psalm, any psalm,
say #19 for starters…
www.minyanmag.com/leonardkress...
It should be easy enough,
just choose a psalm, any psalm,
say #19 for starters…
www.minyanmag.com/leonardkress...
How Poets Pray by Leonard Kress | MINYAN
How Poets Pray by Leonard Kress from Issue Sixteen
www.minyanmag.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Please check out my new poem (as well as the other fine work) in the new issue of MINYAN. (Special thanks to editor Liz Marlow.)
It should be easy enough,
just choose a psalm, any psalm,
say #19 for starters…
www.minyanmag.com/leonardkress...
It should be easy enough,
just choose a psalm, any psalm,
say #19 for starters…
www.minyanmag.com/leonardkress...
F25 office hours sign quote:
“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.”
--Hannah Arendt, 1954
“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.”
--Hannah Arendt, 1954
August 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
F25 office hours sign quote:
“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.”
--Hannah Arendt, 1954
“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.”
--Hannah Arendt, 1954
The fall semester has started and my submissions, my writing, and my reshuffling of poems to try to make them make sense have all fallen dormant. This is the way of both poetic and economic work, but I need a slight moment to feel bad about it. Alas...
August 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The fall semester has started and my submissions, my writing, and my reshuffling of poems to try to make them make sense have all fallen dormant. This is the way of both poetic and economic work, but I need a slight moment to feel bad about it. Alas...
I'm late to the party on this tweet by @briantylercohen.bsky.social, but here goes:
Given what's on our home TV when other people control it, I can't help but think this little vacation is the perfect setup for a cozy mystery in an episode of Agatha Raisin.
Given what's on our home TV when other people control it, I can't help but think this little vacation is the perfect setup for a cozy mystery in an episode of Agatha Raisin.
August 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I'm late to the party on this tweet by @briantylercohen.bsky.social, but here goes:
Given what's on our home TV when other people control it, I can't help but think this little vacation is the perfect setup for a cozy mystery in an episode of Agatha Raisin.
Given what's on our home TV when other people control it, I can't help but think this little vacation is the perfect setup for a cozy mystery in an episode of Agatha Raisin.
My wife, @shaunachill.bsky.social, is a #dietitian starting a new venture to support women as they pursue #WomensNutrition and #HealthyLiving. She is holding a free live webinar tomorrow at 5pm EST. To join, check out her site. While you're there, read a blog or 2: www.shaunahillnutrition.com @shau
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August 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
My wife, @shaunachill.bsky.social, is a #dietitian starting a new venture to support women as they pursue #WomensNutrition and #HealthyLiving. She is holding a free live webinar tomorrow at 5pm EST. To join, check out her site. While you're there, read a blog or 2: www.shaunahillnutrition.com @shau
As I sat down to create the agenda for a faculty meeting and syllabi for classes starting this week, I glanced over at my youthfully optimistic pile of books and journals I intended to read this summer. Alas, these forlorn books must now join past neglected piles, unread.
August 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
As I sat down to create the agenda for a faculty meeting and syllabi for classes starting this week, I glanced over at my youthfully optimistic pile of books and journals I intended to read this summer. Alas, these forlorn books must now join past neglected piles, unread.
Reposted by Michael Hill
People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.
August 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
August 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Not all news makes us despair. Sometimes the news just reminds us that life is absurd.
Four people were injured after a tractor-trailer crash left thousands of hot dogs scattered across the highway in York County, Pennsylvania. NBCNews, 8/1/25
Four people were injured after a tractor-trailer crash left thousands of hot dogs scattered across the highway in York County, Pennsylvania. NBCNews, 8/1/25
August 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Not all news makes us despair. Sometimes the news just reminds us that life is absurd.
Four people were injured after a tractor-trailer crash left thousands of hot dogs scattered across the highway in York County, Pennsylvania. NBCNews, 8/1/25
Four people were injured after a tractor-trailer crash left thousands of hot dogs scattered across the highway in York County, Pennsylvania. NBCNews, 8/1/25
I am thrilled that @inkinthirds.bsky.social will be publishing a poem of mine in their fall edition. Warning: there may be nudity in my poem. Look me up. Hook yourself up. Ink in Thirds is a lovely journal filled with prose, poetry and photography. inkinthirds.org
Ink In Thirds - Come Lay Down Ink...
A magazine of poised prose, precarious poetry, and photography to pilot our own realms again. Come lay down ink...
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August 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I am thrilled that @inkinthirds.bsky.social will be publishing a poem of mine in their fall edition. Warning: there may be nudity in my poem. Look me up. Hook yourself up. Ink in Thirds is a lovely journal filled with prose, poetry and photography. inkinthirds.org
Reposted by Michael Hill
Reposted by Michael Hill
Literature—the life of it, especially so close to the ground of it, the living and writing and reading with each other—is community work; we do this together.
It’s participatory. It’s gift exchange.
It’s participatory. It’s gift exchange.
August 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Literature—the life of it, especially so close to the ground of it, the living and writing and reading with each other—is community work; we do this together.
It’s participatory. It’s gift exchange.
It’s participatory. It’s gift exchange.
The unyielding opinions of my 17 year old have taught me that perhaps we would all be better off if we stayed true to the purity of our most simple convictions while also being open to rational negotiation with those who oppose our ideals. Parenthood is a pretty good training ground for citizenship.
July 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The unyielding opinions of my 17 year old have taught me that perhaps we would all be better off if we stayed true to the purity of our most simple convictions while also being open to rational negotiation with those who oppose our ideals. Parenthood is a pretty good training ground for citizenship.