Category: lit crit
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// advance praise
Borderline Fortune is starting to take shape as a full-fledged book, and I hope to have a cover to show you soon. In the meantime, I’m grateful for these kind words: Teresa K. Miller explores startling territories in Borderline Fortune. She addresses the lines we’ve drawn and erased for centuries on the earth—that conform to…
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// shelter in place & parentheses
I hope this finds you surviving and at least sometimes thriving. ❤ This year has brought some of the best and worst experiences of my life. For today, I’ll share a little bit of the good. I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Laura Joyce Davis for her podcast Shelter in Place. We covered…
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// can we have our ball back?
Just a note on the eve of another lockdown to share some good news about Borderline Fortune, forthcoming from Penguin in October 2021. If you followed online indie lit mags in the ’00s, then you know can we have our ball back? I’m honored to have three poems from Borderline Fortune in the reimagined version…
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// bye, 2019
May 2020 be the year we rid the White House of an aspiring fascist, collectively exceed our targets for mitigating and repairing environmental destruction, and treat each other with compassion. I spent 2019 writing on those themes, among others: “NCAP Gives Thanks for Farmers,” a blog for the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides…
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// borderline fortune
Five and a half years ago, Russell Bennetts messaged out of the blue and asked me to send him some poems for Berfrois. I had no idea what I was getting into—as it turned out, not only those poems but also a poetry collection “by” Jeff Bezos, an interview and participation in two series at…
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// berfrois: the book
Berfrois: The Book is officially out! If you’ll be in PDX for AWP this week, you can get your copy at the bookfair. Gregory Giles and I do our part to insert environmental commentary into everything with a conversational essay on horror films The Last Winter (2006) and The Thaw (2009), the documentary Chasing…
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// tortured genius
People often said that he finished sentences for me. Well, he did. He was between me and the world. He not only answered the telephone; he finished my sentences. He was the baffle between me and the world at large. —Joan Didion, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold ICYMI, my latest film conversation…
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// the ampersand journals
I’m interrupting the heatwave marathon of blackberry picking to share some equally sweet news: A few weeks ago, Bone & Ink published three excerpts from my project California Building, and this week, Flag + Void released three more. Much gratitude to editors Jessie Lynn McMains and Matthew Moore. I hope you’ll check out these new…
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// crab creek review
I’m excited to share that the latest issue of Crab Creek Review (2018, Vol. I) can now be ordered online or purchased from a number of booksellers in the Pacific Northwest. I’m grateful to poetry editor Martha Silano for including an excerpt from my project California Building. Buying a copy of the issue means supporting…
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// interview with carol van strum
It’s my great privilege to share an audio interview of Oregon environmental activist Carol van Strum by novelist, memoirist, and recent Esalen Institute writing teacher Joyce Thompson. Joyce writes: I’m back from a four-day visit with Oregon eco-warrior Carol van Strum, the woman whose relentless activism drove the banning of pesticide use in US national…
Teresa K. Miller, poet and essayist 