Greg Hill : part four

What are you working on?

I don’t have a publisher, so I don’t have the benefit of someone threatening me with deadlines. But I am working on finishing and formatting two book-length manuscripts, one entirely experimental, one less so. I can’t even decide whether it’s really two manuscripts or one.

At the same time, I’m also working on a smaller project—I suppose I could make it larger—and which is conceptual in nature, about aleatory poetry.

I’m also more than half a decade into rewriting all of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland under the constraint of using only five-letter words. (My best, most fervent, piece of advice to writers is: never start a project like this—complicated, consuming, frustrating, futile.)

I am working on a project of visual poetry. I’m not set about in what format I want these works to exist. This project is the least pressing but often the most fun.

Also, every year I have a goal to collect 100 rejections from literary magazines for poems I have submitted. I was on track for a while, but I have to refocus on that priority to meet the goal for 2021.