Tag: russell bennetts
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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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// 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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// bodies in thin air
ICYMI, Greg and I published the sixth conversational essay in our occasional series for Berfrois—this time about valuing property over people, the limits of revenge, and the possibilities of resistance: I don’t think we can maintain our humanity when we dehumanize others, warehouse them, and pay our taxes to agents of the state to…
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// robots for the end of the world
Today in Berfrois: New adventures in subverting expository form—the fifth installment in my occasional conversational essay series with Gregory Giles is up. Throwback to everyone’s favorite ’90s environmental cartoon (?), FernGully. Improbably Sentimental Robots; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Babies and Embrace the Apocalypse Also, lucky you if you’ll be in the…
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// elephants wouldn’t wonder
Today in Berfrois: the fourth conversational essay in my occasional environmental and food justice film series with Gregory Giles. We discuss means vs. ends in animal rights and horror—and whether it’s OK to draw parallels among different kinds of carnage. Elephants Wouldn’t Lie Awake Wondering; or, Cognitive Dissonance and the Carnivore ### Also, ICYMI,…
Teresa K. Miller, poet and essayist 