Wayne Joshua Miller (born January 10, 1976) is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor.

Life and career

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Miller earned a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from the University of Houston.Poetry Foundation. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wayne-miller (Retrieved 26 Aug 2017) For twelve years he taught at the University of Central Missouri, where he was an editor of the literary journal Pleiades.CU Denver CLAS Faculty & Staff Directory. https://clas.ucdenver.edu/directory/faculty-staff/wayne-miller (Retrieved 26 Aug 2017) Since 2014 he has taught at the University of Colorado Denver, where he serves as editor/managing editor of Copper Nickel.Copper Nickel About Page. http://copper-nickel.org/about/ (Retrieved 26 Aug 2017) With Kevin Prufer, he also co-curates the Unsung Masters Series.Academy of American Poets. https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/wayne-miller (Retrieved 26 Aug 2017)

Publications and critical reception

Miller's poems have appeared in numerous periodicals—including Boulevard, Crazyhorse, Field, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Southern Review, and The Washington Post—and he has published four full-length poetry collections. His first collection, Only the Senses Sleep, published by New Issues Poetry & Prose in 2006, won the 2007 William Rockhill Nelson Award in Poetry and was named a Kansas City Star "noteworthy" book of 2006.New Issues Press. https://newissuespress.com/only-the-senses-sleep-by-wayne-miller/ (Retrieved 26 Aug 2017) Publishers Weekly called the book a "mature debut."Publishers Weekly. https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-930974-65-4 (Retrieved 15 Oct 2017) Miller's next three collections were published by Milkweed Editions. The Book of Props, published in 2009, was described by The New Yorker as "mak[ing] a vast impact using the smallest stroke" The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/04/27/the-book-of-props (Retrieved 15 Oct 2017) and was named a best poetry book of the year by Coldfront Magazine Coldfront Magazine. http://coldfrontmag.com/year-in-review-2009/ (Retrieved 15 Oct 2017). and the Kansas City Star. The City, Our City, published in 2011, was a finalist for the 2012 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.Milkweed Editions. https://milkweed.org/author/wayne-miller (Retrieved 26 Aug 2017) In a review of The City, Our City, Notre Dame Review called Miller "among the best poets in the USA"; Micah Bateman in The Kenyon Review, described the poems as "fierce lyrical investigations."The Kenyon Review. https://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2013-spring/selections/the-city-our-city-by-wayne-miller-738439/ (Retrieved 15 Oct 2017) Post-, published in 2016, won the 2017 Colorado Book AwardColorado Humanities. http://www.coloradohumanities.org/content/2017-colorado-book-award-winners (Retrieved 26 Aug 2017) and the 2017 Rilke Prize Poetry Foundation. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2017/02/wayne-millers-post-wins-2017-unt-rilke-prize (Retrieved 15 Oct 2017) given to the best U.S. book of the year by a "mid-career poet." Phillip Garland, writing in Colorado Review, called Miller a "singular figure in American poetry," Colorado Review. http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/post/ (Retrieved 15 Oct 2017) and Donna Seaman, writing in Booklist, described Post- as "witty and solemn, stoic and nimble."Booklist. http://www.booklist-digital.com/booklist/march_15_2016?pg=17#pg17 (Retrieved 15 Oct 2017) In Tupelo Quarterly, Sean Singer called Post- "a fascinating and wonderful book" and "a work of serious craft."Tupelo Quarterly. http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/post-by-wayne-miller/ (Retrieved 15 Oct 2017)

Miller has co-translated two books by the Albanian poet Moikom Zeqo, whom Miller met when he was a junior in college.Poetry International. https://pionline.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/interview-wayne-millar/ (Retrieved 19 Oct 2017) I Don't Believe in Ghosts was published in 2007 by BOA Editions. In 2015, Zephyr Press published Zodiac, which was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award in Translation.Translationista. http://translationista.com/2016/08/2016-pen-center-usa-translation-award-announced.html (Retrieved 26 Aug 2017)

Miller has co-edited three books: New European Poets (with Kevin Prufer), published by Graywolf Press; Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master (with Takako Lento), published through the Unsung Masters Series; and Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century (with Travis Kurowski and Kevin Prufer), published by Milkweed Editions.

Honors and awards

Miller received a 2000 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry FoundationRuth Lilly Fellowships. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/prizes-fellowship (Retrieved 26 Aug 2017) and, in 2001, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry Magazine.Bess Hokin Prize. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/prizes#hokin (Retrieved 26 Aug 2017) He has won the George Bogin Memorial Award, the Lyric Poetry Award, and, four times, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.PSA Annual Awards, Past Winners. https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/ (Retrieved 26 Aug 2017) In 2013, he received a Fulbright to Queen's University Belfast.Fulbright Scholar Program. http://www.cies.org/grantee/wayne-miller (Retrieved 26 Aug 2017)

Published works

Poetry collections

Post-. Milkweed Editions, 2016.

The City, Our City. Milkweed Editions, 2011.

The Book of Props. Milkweed Editions, 2009.

Only the Senses Sleep. New Issues, 2006.

Co-translated poetry collections

Zodiac. By Moikom Zeqo, trans. Anastas Kapurani and Wayne Miller. Zephyr Press, 2015.

I Don't Believe in Ghosts. By Moikom Zeqo, trans. Wayne Miller et al. BOA Editions, 2007.

Co-edited books

Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century. With Travis Kurowski & Kevin Prufer. Milkweed Editions, 2016.

Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master. With Takako Lento. Pleiades Press, 2011.

New European Poets. With Kevin Prufer. Graywolf Press, 2008.

References

External links Wayne Miller's Personal Website Wayne Miller's Faculty Page at the University of Colorado Denver Copper Nickel Website Wayne Miller at the Academy of American Poets Wayne Miller at the Poetry Foundation