Sean Hill is the author of two poetry collections, Dangerous Goods, awarded the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, named one of the Ten Books All Georgians Should Read by the Georgia Center for the Book. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems and essays have appeared in Harvard Review, Orion, Oxford American, Tin House and in nearly three dozen anthologies. Hill has served as the director of the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference at Bemidji State University since 2012. He is a consulting editor at Broadsided Press and has taught at several universities. Hill lives with his family in southwest Montana and is an assistant professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Montana.

"In The Negroes Send Their Love, Sean Hill holds the weight of history up to the light of memory, tracing the lines of family, community, and identity through heartbreaking poetry. These poems are born from the soil of the South, the chill of Alaska, the warmth of Montana, and the endless expanse of Black imagination. There are letters to Hill's ancestors, conversations with his son, and meditations on what it means to be a Negro even in the twenty-first century."--Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition

"The Negroes Send Their Love is brilliant and immersive. A rich honoring of place, lineage, and history also interwoven with the cares and concerns of fatherhood, of loss, and of love in the future. I am thankful for all these poems carry--and all that they demand we carry alongside them."--Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There's Always This Year

"Bold, brilliant, and defying restriction, The Negroes Send Their Love is a remarkable new offering from Sean Hill. This book recognizes the past as the future's foundation. Tradition and innovation combine in the hybrid chorus of poems, essays, and stories that sing on these pages. Filled as it is with wide-ranging, visionary love, Hill's book is unflinchingly committed to casting clear light on the lives he centers."--Camille T. Dungy, author of America, A Love Story

"Lyrical, profound, and utterly essential, The Negroes Send Their Love is a powerful message sent across the void, demanding we listen, remember, and imagine what worlds we might yet build. Read it and be transformed."--Sheree Renée Thomas, author of Dark Matter

Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Pub date: 2026-03-03

Length: 232 pages