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 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 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 […]

MADWOMAN: A Forum on Shara McCallum’s Poetics

Thrilled to share that “MADWOMAN: A Forum on Shara McCallum’s Poetics,” which I co-curated with Derrilyn Morrison for Poetry International, went live today! This forum is comprised of an introduction by Derrilyn Morrison and essays by Michela A. Calderaro (“Shara McCallum’s Madwoman and Other Madwomen”), Vahni Capildeo (“Movement in Space: Transitions between Words in Shara […]

Peter Taylor Fellow for the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop (Poetry)

In June, I will be the Peter Taylor Fellow for David Baker’s poetry workshop at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. About the poetry workshops at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop: “Poetry may be the most flexible, the most ancient, the most playful, and the most challenging of genres. KR’s poetry workshops meet intensively every day […]

#AWP17

This year at AWP, I’m part of “The Manifesto Project: A Reading and Conversation” panel with Jillian Weise, Vandana Khanna, David Groff, and Rebecca Hazelton. The panel is Friday, 2/10 at 10:30 AM. Hope to see you there! The anthology looks beautiful — can’t wait to have it in my hands. You can see it here […]

“House of Père Lacroix” in Poem-a-Day

A huge thank you to Alex Dimitrov and the Academy of American Poets for featuring my poem, “House of Père Lacroix,” on Poem-a-Day today! The poem was inspired by Cézanne’s painting by the same name in the National Gallery of Art.