Tag: poetry
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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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// winner of the national poetry series
In the midst of my county burning down and threatening to suffocate us all, I’m still honored and deeply grateful to announce that former California Poet Laureate Carol Muske-Dukes has chosen my manuscript Borderline Fortune as a National Poetry Series winner, to be published by Penguin in fall 2021. Excerpts have appeared in Empty…
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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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// empty mirror & in bed
In keeping with the season of good news, I’m excited to share two more recent publications: four excerpts from California Building up today in Empty Mirror, and a standalone prose poem up this week in Queen Mob’s Teahouse for its “In Bed With…” series. I’m grateful to the editors for giving a home to my…
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// a season of good news
Portland, Oregon, offers the most dazzling spring of any I’ve experienced. It’s particularly welcome after the coldest February on record in the metro area this year, and it comes with good publishing news, too. In my last post, I shared that the full-length poetry manuscript I’ve been working on the last few years, California Building, was…
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// progress vs. despair
As the year draws to a close, I’m struck by the marked—and somewhat encouraging—disconnect between top-down and grassroots forces at play in the U.S. right now. The government has been an utter disappointment in so many ways, from directly undermining economic, racial, and gender equity to making us the only country in the world…
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// reading & records
I’m reading on Friday 6/3 in San Francisco, and 20 Minute Loop is putting out a new LP.
Teresa K. Miller, poet and essayist 