Matt W Miller
@mattwmiller.bsky.social
Poet, Essayist, Educator, Husband, Dad, Surfer. Aender the River (Texas Review Press), The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry), Club Icarus (UNT), and Cameo Diner (Loom). Stegner Fellow, VCCA Fellow, Walter E Dakin Fellow. https://www.mattwmiller.com/
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Unlawful ICE raids are
taxpayer-funded kidnappings tearing families apart
taxpayer-funded kidnappings tearing families apart
July 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Unlawful ICE raids are
taxpayer-funded kidnappings tearing families apart
taxpayer-funded kidnappings tearing families apart
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Recently published essay about fathers and fatherhood as we approach Father's Day:
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The Build - Cutleaf Journal
On one of those bright cerulean popping mornings just at the beginning of summer break, when I was about 13, my dad took my two brothers and me to the lumber
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June 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Recently published essay about fathers and fatherhood as we approach Father's Day:
cutleafjournal.com/content/the-...
cutleafjournal.com/content/the-...
Narratively just published my prize winning essay about my time teaching in the New Hampshire State Prison for Men: One of My Babies www.narratively.com/p/one-of-my-...
One of My Babies
Twenty years ago, I found myself teaching a man who was responsible for an unimaginably horrific crime. I turned my back on him just when he needed me and have regretted it ever since.
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May 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Narratively just published my prize winning essay about my time teaching in the New Hampshire State Prison for Men: One of My Babies www.narratively.com/p/one-of-my-...
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The incompetence is off the charts.
Noem Gets Epically Schooled By Dem Senator After She Proves She Has No Clue What 'Habeas Corpus' Is
The incompetence is off the charts.
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May 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The incompetence is off the charts.
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Congratulations to <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nhik53w3qpdgk7nbbln42bz4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@mattwmiller.bsky.social, MFA candidate in Nonfiction! He was selected as a finalist in Narratively's 2024 Memoir Prize. 🎉
https://www.narratively.com/p/meet-the-grand-prize-winner-2024-memoir-prize
https://www.narratively.com/p/meet-the-grand-prize-winner-2024-memoir-prize
March 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Congratulations to <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nhik53w3qpdgk7nbbln42bz4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@mattwmiller.bsky.social, MFA candidate in Nonfiction! He was selected as a finalist in Narratively's 2024 Memoir Prize. 🎉
https://www.narratively.com/p/meet-the-grand-prize-winner-2024-memoir-prize
https://www.narratively.com/p/meet-the-grand-prize-winner-2024-memoir-prize
Pumped to have a new poem, "Cleveland" up at @commonmag.bsky.social . The poem may start off as a dig at myself and the city and middle age but turns into love for the people there so a big shout out to all my friends in and from The 216
www.thecommononline.org/february-25-...
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February 2025 Poetry Feature: New Poems by Our Contributors
MARC VINCENZ <br> Oh, you genius, you beehive, / you spark, you contiguous line— / all from the same place of origin // where there is no breeze. // All those questions posed … / take no notice, the i...
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February 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Pumped to have a new poem, "Cleveland" up at @commonmag.bsky.social . The poem may start off as a dig at myself and the city and middle age but turns into love for the people there so a big shout out to all my friends in and from The 216
www.thecommononline.org/february-25-...
www.thecommononline.org/february-25-...
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The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.
February 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.
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The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.
February 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.
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More of this, America.
February 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
More of this, America.
My dad would have been 80 today. Loved taking us to the movies. Here’s an essay about one of the last times I took him to the movies.
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Return of the King - Cutleaf Journal
By the time Jackson’s Tolkien trilogy was lighting theaters like fired up beacons, so much of my dad had been broken by sickness, by surgery, by pain and the impossibility of full recovery.
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January 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
My dad would have been 80 today. Loved taking us to the movies. Here’s an essay about one of the last times I took him to the movies.
cutleafjournal.com/content/retu...
cutleafjournal.com/content/retu...
Wonderful essay in Sport Litertate by my friend Eric Stinton about teaching set against the subculture of chicken fighting in Hawaii.
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January 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Wonderful essay in Sport Litertate by my friend Eric Stinton about teaching set against the subculture of chicken fighting in Hawaii.
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Great poem by my dear friend Maggie Dietz up in Verse Daily!
Today's poem is "Cerberus"
by Maggie Dietz
from AGNI
Subscribe to our substack and find out what you're missing.
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by Maggie Dietz
from AGNI
Subscribe to our substack and find out what you're missing.
www.versedaily.org/2024/cerberu...
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December 30, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Great poem by my dear friend Maggie Dietz up in Verse Daily!
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Guess which ‘one’ hasn’t figured it out yet?! 👇
Just one guess. 🇺🇸
Just one guess. 🇺🇸
December 18, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Guess which ‘one’ hasn’t figured it out yet?! 👇
Just one guess. 🇺🇸
Just one guess. 🇺🇸
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