Poet // Essayist // Educator
On Wednesday, December 3rd, I’ll be reading at the University of Maryland in College Park for the “Writer’s Here and Now” alumni reading with John Van Kirk and Elissa Washuta. Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Hall University of Maryland, College Park 7 PM
Read More Reading at the University of Maryland“‘Mike’ Test,” a new poem, appears on the Academy of American Poets website (poem-a-day feature) for November 10, 2014. Thank you, Alex Dimitrov.
Read More The Academy of American PoetsOn Monday, October 13th, I’ll be reading for the St. Louis Poetry Center with Nathan Hoks and Devin Johnston. Details: Llywelyn’s Pub (CWE), upstairs loft, 7:30 PM.
Read More Reading for the St. Louis Poetry CenterLooking forward to reading with Adam Clay and Alex Lemon at Rozz-Tox on Friday, September 12th (8 PM, Rozz-Tox) for the Midwest Writing Center’s SPECTRA reading series.
Read More Reading for the Midwest Writing Center in the Quad CitiesI’m reading poems of Paul Celan and Wallace Stevens at the Chicago Cultural Center the afternoon of Aug. 7th (12:15 PM) in the exhibit, “Matthew Girson: The Painter’s Other Library.” You can read more about Matthew Girson’s work here (and the ongoing events in connection with the exhibit). The exhibit was recently reviewed favorably in Artforum: I’m […]
Read More Reading at the Chicago Cultural Center: “Matthew Girson: The Painter’s Other Library”Many thanks to Keith Montesano for interviewing me about Tongue Lyre in his First Book Interview series.
Read More Tongue Lyre in First Book Interview SeriesSaturday, Jul 19, 2:30PM I will be reading with fellow Poetry magazine contributors Anthony Madrid and Philip B. Williams at the Book Fort: Pitchfork Music Festival Union Park 1501 West Randolph Street Free with admission to the festival
Read More Pitchfork Poetry Reading: Poetry FoundationTongue Lyre has been featured by Anis Shivani in Huffington Post Books: “Video Reading Series June 2014: Eight Emerging Poets and Fiction Writers Read From Their New Work.” It has also been linked on Harriet, the Poetry Foundation’s blog. The video of my reading was recorded by Laura Madeline Wiseman at the Split This Rock festival in […]
Read More Tongue Lyre in Huffington Post BooksHonored that Tongue Lyre is in such fine company in this survey of readers of The Believer. READERS’ FAVORITE WORKS OF POETRY IN 2013 1. Red Doc> – Anne Carson 2. The Boss – Victoria Chang 3. Silverchest – Carl Phillips 4. Tongue Lyre – Tyler Mills 5. Black Aperture – Matt Rasmussen Here is the […]
Read More The Believer: Readers’ Favorite Works of Poetry in 2013“Children of the Flood” was published on April 19th for the Boston Review‘s 2014 National Poetry Month feature. The poem was included with a detail from one of my mother’s woven paintings: that is a portrait of me as a child. Thank you B. K. Fischer and Timothy Donnelly for publishing my poem and my mother’s work along […]
Read More “Children of the Flood” in the Boston Review
Tyler Mills 