Faculty at 24PearlStreet Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown: “Radical Revision”

I’m on faculty at 24PearlStreet, the online writing program for the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown! I’m teaching “Radical Revision: Preparing Poems for Publication” this winter, and if you or someone you know are interested, I’d love to work with you! More info below! The class runs Jan. 13-Feb. 7, 2020. The New Year is […]

Hawk Parable reviewed in the American Book Review

Hawk Parable has been reviewed by Brittany Helmick for the American Book Review! Excerpt: “It isn’t every day that one is forced to consider the wild creature that lives within. In fact, we try not to think about the ways in which we hurt others, but Tyler Mills doesn’t care to keep things caged. In […]

Hawk Parable reviewed in Tupelo Quarterly

Hawk Parable has been reviewed by Philip C. Maurer for Tupelo Quarterly! Excerpt: “For all the scraps it collects, Hawk Parable distinguishes itself by the spaces it leaves. What is unsaid, unwritten, or unknown nevertheless develops its own reality and takes a visceral hold on the narrator, on her grandfather, and on the reader. In one of […]

Reading / Talk at the Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM

Thursday, May 30, I’m giving a reading / talk titled “Creative Landscapes of New Mexico’s Atomic Age: A Discussion of Artifacts, Archives, and Lyric Essays in Tyler Mills’s Afterimage Project.” Thank you to the Doel Reed Center for the Arts, Oklahoma State University, for sponsoring the presentation! It has been a pleasure to be this […]

Hawk Parable featured on KRQE News 13 in Albuquerque

Hawk Parable was featured on KRQE News 13 in Albuquerque! Thank you, New Mexico Highlands University! Here is the link.

Hawk Parable on The Millions Must-Read Poetry: April 2019 List

I’m so honored that Hawk Parable is on the The Millions Must-Read Poetry: April 2019 list with books by Lauren K. Alleyne, Jericho Brown, Emily Skaja, Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, and Harry Clifton! Thank you so much, Nick Ripatrazone! “We really don’t spend a lot of our lives looking up—the sun steals our sight, or we might trip over our own […]

Hawk Parable – Starred Review in Publishers Weekly

Hawk Parable (University of Akron Press, 2019) received a starred review in Publishers Weekly! “In his 1950 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Faulkner argued that under the sway of a “universal and physical fear,” writers had forgotten how to attend to “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself.” In her second book, Mills (Tongue […]

Lots of Things Happening – 2018 Edition

Rather than do a series of posts after the fact, I thought I’d highlight some of the big things that happened this year! And in favor of nonlinear thinking, I’m not listing them in chronological order. In June 2018, Tupelo Quarterly published the rest of my Afterimage visual series. You can view the set here. Below is the first […]

“Hansel in College” The Guardian’s Featured Poem of the Week

I’m so honored that my poem “Hansel in College” is The Guardian‘s Poem of the Week. Many thanks to Carol Rumens for this critical engagement; Peter Kahn, editor of the Golden Shovel Anthology where the poem first appeared; and to Gwendolyn Brooks herself. You can read the feature here.

New Mexico Highlands University Interview about HAWK PARABLE and Teaching

I had a conversation with University Relations at New Mexico Highlands University yesterday, and their story about Hawk Parable and the 2017 Akron Poetry Prize is live today. I’m grateful to have had the chance to think about my writing & teaching, and I’m thankful for this support. You are welcome to read the story here.