Wayne Miller
@waynemillerpoet.bsky.social
Poet + Translator / New Book: THE END OF CHILDHOOD (Milkweed Editions, March 2025) / Editor of Copper Nickel / Co-director of the Unsung Masters Series / http://waynemillerpoet.com
I'm so happy to announce Copper Nickel's new Pushcart Nominations: Ayşe Papatya Bucak, Rivka Clifton, Vedran Husić, Keetje Kuipers, @luisamuradyan.bsky.social, and Matthew Neill Null!
October 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I'm so happy to announce Copper Nickel's new Pushcart Nominations: Ayşe Papatya Bucak, Rivka Clifton, Vedran Husić, Keetje Kuipers, @luisamuradyan.bsky.social, and Matthew Neill Null!
The deadline for the Jake Adam York Prize is October 15. But we always hold the door open till OCTOBER 18 for anyone who has an emergency or problem that gets in the way. PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD to any poets with a good first or second book manuscript!
October 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The deadline for the Jake Adam York Prize is October 15. But we always hold the door open till OCTOBER 18 for anyone who has an emergency or problem that gets in the way. PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD to any poets with a good first or second book manuscript!
Can't wait to read tomorrow (Thursday) with @emilybloodwolf.bsky.social at Basket Books in Houston! We start at 7:30. Come say hi!
October 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Can't wait to read tomorrow (Thursday) with @emilybloodwolf.bsky.social at Basket Books in Houston! We start at 7:30. Come say hi!
Denver peeps! This is tomorrow evening (Tuesday) and will be amazing.
October 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Denver peeps! This is tomorrow evening (Tuesday) and will be amazing.
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We're seeking proposals for future Unsung Masters volumes!
Send your proposal to unsung.masters.series[at]gmail[dot]com by October 15.
For more info, visit unsungmasters.org or reach out to series editors @kevinprufer.bsky.social, @infinite-scroll.bsky.social, or @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social.
Send your proposal to unsung.masters.series[at]gmail[dot]com by October 15.
For more info, visit unsungmasters.org or reach out to series editors @kevinprufer.bsky.social, @infinite-scroll.bsky.social, or @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social.
September 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
We're seeking proposals for future Unsung Masters volumes!
Send your proposal to unsung.masters.series[at]gmail[dot]com by October 15.
For more info, visit unsungmasters.org or reach out to series editors @kevinprufer.bsky.social, @infinite-scroll.bsky.social, or @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social.
Send your proposal to unsung.masters.series[at]gmail[dot]com by October 15.
For more info, visit unsungmasters.org or reach out to series editors @kevinprufer.bsky.social, @infinite-scroll.bsky.social, or @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social.
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Don't miss the next Watershed Reading this Sat Sept 20, 7pm. Readers will include Wayne Miller (The End of Childhood), Mary Margaret Alvarado (American Weather), and Moisés Villavicencio Barras (co-founder, Cantera Verde). https://loom.ly/f3IBuA0
September 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Don't miss the next Watershed Reading this Sat Sept 20, 7pm. Readers will include Wayne Miller (The End of Childhood), Mary Margaret Alvarado (American Weather), and Moisés Villavicencio Barras (co-founder, Cantera Verde). https://loom.ly/f3IBuA0
For my friends in/near Madison, Wisconsin!—Tomorrow (Saturday) I'll be reading at Art + Lit Lab with Mary Margaret Alvarado and Moisés Villavicencio Barras. Doors open at 6:30pm; reading starts at 7pm. Big thanks to Steven Espada Dawson for the invite!
September Watershed Reading
Join us on Saturday, September 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM for our September Watershed Reading. Readers are Wayne Miller, Mary Margaret Alvarado, and Moisés Villavicencio Barras.
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September 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
For my friends in/near Madison, Wisconsin!—Tomorrow (Saturday) I'll be reading at Art + Lit Lab with Mary Margaret Alvarado and Moisés Villavicencio Barras. Doors open at 6:30pm; reading starts at 7pm. Big thanks to Steven Espada Dawson for the invite!
Copper Nickel 41 is at the printer!! Out officially on October 15.
September 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Copper Nickel 41 is at the printer!! Out officially on October 15.
Grateful for this lovely new review of THE END OF CHILDHOOD!
Review: The End of Childhood by Wayne Miller - Cultural Daily
In The End of Childhood, Wayne Miller explores the hopes and realities of both childhood and parenthood in late-stage American capitalism.
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August 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Grateful for this lovely new review of THE END OF CHILDHOOD!
My new poem "Theological" is up at today's Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day! Big thanks to @randallmann.bsky.social, whose curation this month has been incredible.
Theological
The super worked all day
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August 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
My new poem "Theological" is up at today's Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day! Big thanks to @randallmann.bsky.social, whose curation this month has been incredible.
This is tonight! Really looking forward . . .
The End of Childhood: An Evening with Wayne Miller | August 08, 2025 | The Mercantile Library
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August 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is tonight! Really looking forward . . .
I haven't been home to Cincinnati in 15 years, so I'm doubly excited to read from THE END OF CHILDHOOD at the beautiful Mercantile Library on Friday, August 8. Come say hi! (And huge thanks to @yaliesaweda.bsky.social!)
The End of Childhood: An Evening with Wayne Miller | August 08, 2025 | The Mercantile Library
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July 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I haven't been home to Cincinnati in 15 years, so I'm doubly excited to read from THE END OF CHILDHOOD at the beautiful Mercantile Library on Friday, August 8. Come say hi! (And huge thanks to @yaliesaweda.bsky.social!)
What an incredible experience reading in the Milosz Festival in Kraków with Piotr Florczyk, who translated THE END OF CHILDHOOD AND OTHER POEMS into Polish!
July 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
What an incredible experience reading in the Milosz Festival in Kraków with Piotr Florczyk, who translated THE END OF CHILDHOOD AND OTHER POEMS into Polish!
Exciting news! Incredible poet PATRICIA SMITH will judge the 2025-6 Jake Adam York Prize. Here (below) is more info. We open for submissions on July 1. Please help spread the word!
Copper Nickel | The Jake Adam York Prize
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June 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Exciting news! Incredible poet PATRICIA SMITH will judge the 2025-6 Jake Adam York Prize. Here (below) is more info. We open for submissions on July 1. Please help spread the word!
This is one of the coolest things that's happened to me in my poetry life: My Selected Poems is coming out next month in Poland, and I'll be reading in the Miłosz Festival on 2 July. My deep thanks to Piotr Florczyk, Krysztof Siwczyk at Instytut Mikołowski, and Jerzy Jarniewicz!
June 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This is one of the coolest things that's happened to me in my poetry life: My Selected Poems is coming out next month in Poland, and I'll be reading in the Miłosz Festival on 2 July. My deep thanks to Piotr Florczyk, Krysztof Siwczyk at Instytut Mikołowski, and Jerzy Jarniewicz!
Check out LUISA MURADYAN's beautiful poem "When I Say I Am Not the Speaker of My Poems," which won the Copper Nickel Editors' Prize in Poetry for issue 40! copper-nickel.org/when-i-say-i...
Copper Nickel | When I Say I Am Not the Speaker of My Poems
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June 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Check out LUISA MURADYAN's beautiful poem "When I Say I Am Not the Speaker of My Poems," which won the Copper Nickel Editors' Prize in Poetry for issue 40! copper-nickel.org/when-i-say-i...
Check out MELISSA BOWERS piece "From the Ashes," which won Copper Nickel's Editors' Prize for Prose for issue 40!
Copper Nickel | From the Ashes
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June 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Check out MELISSA BOWERS piece "From the Ashes," which won Copper Nickel's Editors' Prize for Prose for issue 40!
I'm thrilled to learn that my poem "The End of Childhood"—title poem of my new collection—has won a Pushcart Prize! Big thanks to Poetry Magazine and Adrian Matejka!
The End of Childhood
Each morning she goes out with an armful of boards and hammers them into the ice.
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May 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I'm thrilled to learn that my poem "The End of Childhood"—title poem of my new collection—has won a Pushcart Prize! Big thanks to Poetry Magazine and Adrian Matejka!
The Copper Nickel office looking especially beautiful today. (Full disclosure: we’re just a tiny room in the basement…)
May 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Copper Nickel office looking especially beautiful today. (Full disclosure: we’re just a tiny room in the basement…)
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Wayne Miller's beautiful The End of Childhood, published by Milkweed Editions.
May 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Wayne Miller's beautiful The End of Childhood, published by Milkweed Editions.
Grateful for this review of THE END OF CHILDHOOD by brilliant Canadian writer, editor, and literary citizen @robmclennan.bsky.social!
Wayne Miller, The End of Childhood
AMERICAN DOMESTIC The drone was ours Slipping home Toward a distant strip of earth That was also America While the operator Star...
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April 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Grateful for this review of THE END OF CHILDHOOD by brilliant Canadian writer, editor, and literary citizen @robmclennan.bsky.social!
I'm honored to be named a finalist for this year's PSA Emily Dickinson Award. Check out Sasha Roque Pimentel's beautiful winning poem!—
The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
The Poetry Society of America presents a number of prestigious awards each year.
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April 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I'm honored to be named a finalist for this year's PSA Emily Dickinson Award. Check out Sasha Roque Pimentel's beautiful winning poem!—
It was so fun talking with @stevenkleinman.bsky.social about Antonio Machado—one of my very favorite poets—for @ampoetryreview.bsky.social's podcast!
Wayne Miller on Antonio Machado
The American Poetry Review · Episode
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April 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It was so fun talking with @stevenkleinman.bsky.social about Antonio Machado—one of my very favorite poets—for @ampoetryreview.bsky.social's podcast!
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"Late Capitalism"
by @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social
from The End of Childhood. Milkweed Editions, 2025.
by @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social
from The End of Childhood. Milkweed Editions, 2025.
April 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Late Capitalism"
by @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social
from The End of Childhood. Milkweed Editions, 2025.
by @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social
from The End of Childhood. Milkweed Editions, 2025.
Twin Cities folks!—I'll be reading tomorrow evening (Tuesday, April 15), 6pm, with @santisugi.bsky.social at Next Chapter Booksellers. (I'll also be visiting with classes at the U of M and St. Cloud State.) Chris' new book SMALL WARS MANUAL is BRILLIANT—go get a copy!
In Person: Chris Santiago and Wayne Miller at Next Chapter Booksellers | Milkweed Editions
Join Chris Santiago and Wayne Miller at Next Chapter Booksellers for a reading and discussion of their latest works, Small Wars Manual and The End of Childhood.
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April 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Twin Cities folks!—I'll be reading tomorrow evening (Tuesday, April 15), 6pm, with @santisugi.bsky.social at Next Chapter Booksellers. (I'll also be visiting with classes at the U of M and St. Cloud State.) Chris' new book SMALL WARS MANUAL is BRILLIANT—go get a copy!