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Michael Hill

@ccprof.bsky.social
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Teacher, dad, union thug, poet. I teach writing and philosophy at Henry Ford College in Dearborn.

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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
As I move into the final week of the summer semester where both my students and I feel like we've been penned up and unloved for 7 weeks straight, I'm finding a lot of joy in this video. I'm going to have to ask my human to put a bunch of toys in the middle of the yard for me next Tuesday.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Today is the last day of presales for my 1st book. Presales help new authors establish marketability for publishers (@finishinglinepress.bsky.social). You can help me by buying. Wouldn't that feel nice? #poetry #masculinity #domestic #neurodivergence #family finishinglinepress.com/product/what...
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
2 days left in my presales for my first book from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social . You can be an early adopter! An excerpt "Armwrestle, Again" You will beat me someday, long past now you will suddenly be more and I will be less Find the rest here: finishinglinepress.com/product/what...
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Today is the last day of presales for my first book from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social. Imagine the profit if you had bought presale copy of Action Comics #1 for 7 cents. You can save more than that on my first appearance. Buy my poetry. It's an investment. finishinglinepress.com/product/what...
Cover image of What Makes Us Purple beside image of anews story of Action Comics #1 selling for $15m
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I don’t see a spot for ordering the journal on their website, but here is their link nonetheless: www.tamucc.edu/liberal-arts...
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Windward Review Home
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I’m honored to have 5 featured poems in the newest issue of The Windward Review V25, 2025. Beautiful journal worth supporting (link in comments). If you’d like to see more of my work, my chapbook is available for preorder from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social finishinglinepress.com/product/what...
Photo of my poem “Folly of Bones”
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Authenticity for the win!
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
My first book is available for preorder. Check it out below. If you have any questions about quality, production, or usefulness of the work, I’m happy to talk. If not, go ahead and buy a copy!
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Oh, and, all the time together! Nice work. I have a hard time getting to poems about sports unless they are about my kids sports.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Pistons still in seven?
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Ooh boy, according to the ‘analysts’ on the Pistons subreddit, Duren should be playing in the g-league next year. Avoid that cesspool at all costs. I get being disappointed, but man, those people don’t believe, feel or remember anything except what their thumbs are typing at the moment.
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Delicate Emissions Poetry Zine @delicatezine.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Our website is up at DelicateEmissions.com! Within the next few months, our past issues should all be there too. Don't worry -- we're not deleting any accounts now (though we deleted our X account a couple years ago), so past contributors can still find your stuff where we left it! LinkTree, too!
bright orange roses with stylized script text in black. on a green background, we have the web address which is delicate emissions dot com, and a list of what is on the site: our current issue, about us, masthead, all social links, and guidelines and submission form. on a black backer it says, don't worry, we haven't taken anything down!
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I once wanted to be avant-garde, but in a world where meaning is fractured, maybe a poetry reaching for connection is transgressive. Or not. Why not read my perfectly pedestrian book about #fatherhood, #family, #nuerodivergence and the #everyday to decide? www.finishinglinepress.com/product/what...
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WHAT MAKES US PURPLE by Michael Hill – Finishing Line Press
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This weekend my Union, HFCC-FT Local 1650, celebrated our 60th year. We were thrilled to welcome our retirees, spouses, members, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammond, members of our school board, @rweingarten.bsky.social and @reprashida.govpeeps.us to a great party. We are #unionstrong!
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
4 months away from Christmas in July. How's the shopping going? Not well? Don't Panic. My 1st book is set for a July release and you can pre-order today. It's a chapbook, so it's perfect for your sunny x-mas stockings. @finishinglinepress.bsky.social www.finishinglinepress.com/product/what...
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WHAT MAKES US PURPLE by Michael Hill – Finishing Line Press
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Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Connie Hills’s debut poetry collection, “Wet Season” is a crop of juicy riff-driven poems ripe with sensuality, clarity and humor… #family #loss #sex #travel #Buddhism To Order: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/wet-...
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Need a sample? Here is the first poem of my book:
An image of the first poem of my book. Here is that poem:

OUTGROWING BUKOWSKI

this Bukowski survived for twenty-
five years with nary a coffee stain, 
but left alone on the morning table 
for a moment it becomes embellished 
with Fruit Loops and yogurt by these
little shits who anyway make the reading 
of Bukowski impossible with their intractable 
glee about things like Fruit Loops
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Hey, I'm being featured. I've never been a feature before. I feel cool. You too can be cool if you pre-order my book. Ok, well, that a bit non-sequetorial, but when I get sales @finishinglinepress.bsky.social gets happy. Making people and publishers happy is cool. Be cool.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
My first chapbook will be released in July, but you can preorder now. Preordering poetry is like putting money in a savings account; the return is always greater than the investment. C'mon, you know you'll want words later this summer--why not them now? www.finishinglinepress.com/product/what...
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I've been dormant here over the last few months due to health issues, but I just received notice that presales for my first book of poetry have started. I will be sending out opportunities/requests/begging for purchases over the next few weeks. Please forgive the intrusions. But, Hey! Look at this:
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
You might want to pick up the latest issue of Barstow and Grand. www.barstowandgrand.com/vb9dgwt1le72... It has some great work in it. And it also has a little poem by me.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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?
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Yeah, same here. I was pretty active in pursuing scholarship for a while. Now I just want to write my silly poems and post an occasional political or pedagogical diatribe.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I don’t know if you pursue academic writing anymore. If you do, I just ran across this call: link.springer.com/collections/...
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Pedagogies of
The Urban Review is pleased to announce an open call for papers for a Special Issue titled “Pedagogies of 'the Court': Basketball, Education, and ...
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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.
Photo of me reading the latest issue of ink in thirds in my back yard.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
On OneA this morning, Jenn White introduced this topic by taking about ‘unsettled science” and disagreements. There is nothing unsettled here, no real disagreements. News folk who change fact for listeners’ tender ears are no longer news gold: they are apologists.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Performance is more dependent on venue/communal modes than poetry is dependent on knowledge of conventions. New performers may echo what they heard in grade school or by some kinds of poets at open mics. Newbies deserve grace; old readers who practice vocal fry have earned some (polite) disdain.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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/
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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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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Her daily Facebook posts are great too. I’m not sure if she publishes those elsewhere.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Rush was actually a citizen before he went more batshit to remain viable in his later years. He wasn’t a good citizen, but he practiced some level of debatable argument. Everyone after has gone in spiraling circles into base, yet insincere, hate and alarmism to gain clicks and favor.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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)
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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.
Image of my black and white hound resting his head on my thigh.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
There's probably a poem somewhere in being flattened by back pain. If I wasn't so drugged up, maybe I could find it.
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Leonard Kress @lkress.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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...
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How Poets Pray by Leonard Kress | MINYAN
How Poets Pray by Leonard Kress from Issue Sixteen
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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...
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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.
A pile of books, mostly poetry.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This was my favorite shirt for a long time after I finished. I don’t experience anywhere near the same level of disregard as marginalized colleagues, but I loved wearing this shirt to meetings with college admin. Alas, I outgrew it as I got further into middle age. cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/06...
T-shirt with “Doctor” on front, “(of Philosophy”) on the back.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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.
The prez appearing like a vagrant on the roof of the White House
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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
Workers cleaning up hot dog spill on highway.
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Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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
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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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