A Roundtable of the Poetics of Emplacement & Teaching: Poets from Women Write Resistance

Proud to be part of this roundtable of the poetics of emplacement and teaching with poets from Women Write Resistance anthology. Thank you, Emily Johnston and the Spoon River Poetry Review.

“Violinist” in Verse Wisconsin

Kara Candito and Adam Fell, curators of the Monsters of Poetry Reading Series, included “Violinist“ in their guest-edited issue of Verse Wisconsin. I read for the Monsters of Poetry Reading Series in Madison, WI this past December. “Violinist” first appeared in Tongue Lyre.

Liner Notes: A Poetry Playlist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM8erHpNJ2Q Nick Ripatrazone included me in his curation for The Millions about poets and the music that has influenced their work. Here is the playlist: Liner Notes: A Poetry Playlist We were asked to write about about specific songs/pieces that influenced specific poems. The piece I’m obsessed with appears in track 7 of this playlist: Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto in […]

Writing Process Blog Tour

Welcome to this stop of the Writing Process Blog Tour! I’d like to thank Andrea Scarpino for inviting me to participate. Andrea Scarpino is the author of Once,Then, a collection of poems published in March 2014 by Red Hen Press, and The Grove Behind, published by Finishing Line Press in 2009. She is a weekly contributor to the blog Planet […]

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.

Ghost Nature Reading Series

I’m reading on Friday, February 7, 2014 – 12:00PM to 1:00PM at Gallery 400, 400 South Peoria Street, Chicago. The Ghost Nature Reading Series is a “three-part reading series featuring artists, poets, and writers whose work complements Ghost Nature, a group exhibition at Gallery 400 based around the strangeness of the natural world.” One of my favorite […]

Learning Associate at Bates

It is a pleasure for me to be a Learning Associate at Bates College this week. I’m reading on Thursday, January 16th at 6:30.

How do you “write resistance?”: Stone Highway Review Interview

How DO you “write resistance?” A tough question, and an important one. I strove to begin answering it this way for Stone Highway Review: “Resistance is an opposing force; as an aesthetic, writing resistance means challenging the arc of a given—whether that be narrative, formal, or modal.” The rest of the interview is here, along with […]

“The Account’s Wintery Mix: Our Best of 2013” List

The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things. Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax, of cabbages and kings. And why The Account‘s list isn’t out, and whether pigs have wings. Pigs might have wings: (Please don’t sue me, Damien Hirst. Pigs Might Fly, 2008, Glass, gold plated stainless steel, resin, monofilament, silver, […]