Now who the danged heck is Seth Thill?

Hi all, my name is Seth and this is my newsletter. It's a good newsletter. Many are calling it "something to read when [they] have a minute or two of down time." You may be shaking your computer screen or phone right now, baring your teeth and screeching into the scary blue light. And I could not blame you. That is your journey, and I respect it. Your fear is valid. But it doesn't have to be this way. I will tell you what this newsletter is, and we can leave all this behind us.

Basically, I drink root beer and listen to Korn. I spend too much time on eBay searching "wallace and gromit burger king promotional bucket" (you gotta spend money to make money, I like to say). I was born, raised, and still live in Eastern Iowa and enjoy looking at the Mississippi River. I like basketball, and I think Snoopy may be the most powerful figure this earth has ever seen. My first concert was The Bret Michaels Band in Waterloo, Iowa. I am kind of dumb.

I also write poems and make linocut prints and paintings and weird little shadowboxes and other stuff out of the stupid little ideas I have. This newsletter is about those things and also Korn and Snoopy and my little walks around the woods and new energy drink flavors and crying a little in your car at Walgreens because of somebody's Stewie Griffin sweater. The underlying movement of every poem I write or painting I paint or newsletter I newsletter is always a search to find the dumbest possible thing that can make us cry a little bit.

If you subscribe to this newsletter, you'll get weekly posts every Thursday about what stupid things have been making me cry or what I've otherwise been up to or thinking about that week. In those posts, you'll get special little sneak peeks of art projects I am working on, snippets of poems I am writing, and more, all in addition to my signature Opining on a Subject. I know it all sounds a little navel-gazey but hey, what else are we here for? I think some of my thoughts and opinions are good and basically I am saving all those ones for you on this newsletter. Isn't that nice? Check 'em out. Hit subscribe.

For anyone who may have a use for it, slightly more professional bio is below author photo.

Seth Thill is a poet, author, and Monster Energy Drink connoisseur from Dubuque, Iowa, who has had work has been published in Indiana Review, Plainsongs, West Trade Review, Drunk Monkeys, and elsewhere. Seth formerly served as the Assistant Editor at North American Review, America's oldest literary magazine. In September 2022, as Visiting Artist at Hartman Reserve in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Thill published Cover, Recover, a chapbook of poems examining intersections of identity, nature, and pop-culture. Seth enjoys wearing too many necklaces and staring pensively into the distance against a backdrop of wildflowers.