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 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 […]

TONGUE LYRE reviewed in Tupelo Quarterly

Tongue Lyre (SIU Press, 2013) has been reviewed in Tupelo Quarterly. A huge thank you to Virginia Konchan for her brilliant review! “To create shelter, for the lyric body, the exiled body, or roving language itself, is a vocation and art, whether of survival or salvation; it is to sing the body electric, to awaken […]

Tongue Lyre reviewed in American Book Review

Many thanks to Andrea Scarpino for reviewing Tongue Lyre for American Book Review. “Although we begin and end with fire, Mills has taken us on quite a journey, from a thoroughly contemporary setting to the natural world to an ancient Greek myth and back to our contemporary life.” The full review can be read here.

Tongue Lyre reviewed in Rufous City Review

Many thanks to Anna Rose Welch for reviewing Tongue Lyre for Rufous City Review: “Despite the lack of stability and fear that can come from a world that seems out of the body’s control, these poems are filled with resilience.” The full review can be read here.

KBAC: Print Studio Reading & a Reading Review

Reading for the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center Poets in Print Series on 3/2 was a lot of fun. It was wonderful to read with Brynn Saito (The Palace of Contemplating Departure). We met Kalamazoo poets and artists after the reading. And Allison Walker made a beautiful broadside of my poem, “Cleaning Out the Lyre” (below). […]