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Wayne Miller
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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
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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · 15h
Thanks, Mike! And I'm so glad you're digging Emily's book. It's one of my very favorites in a long time.
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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · 16h
Can't wait to read tomorrow (Thursday) with @emilybloodwolf.bsky.social at Basket Books in Houston! We start at 7:30. Come say hi!
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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · 2d
Denver peeps! This is tomorrow evening (Tuesday) and will be amazing.
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The Unsung Masters Series @unsung-masters.bsky.social · Sep 5
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.
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Arts + Literature Laboratory @artlitlab.bsky.social · 19d
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
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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · 19d
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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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · Sep 4
Copper Nickel 41 is at the printer!! Out officially on October 15.
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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · Aug 26
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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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · Aug 22
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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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · Aug 8
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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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · Jul 30
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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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · Jul 6
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!
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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · Jun 27
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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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · Jun 13
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!
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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · Jun 4
(With @luisamuradyan.bsky.social)
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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · Jun 3
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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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · Jun 2
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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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · May 30
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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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · May 21
The Copper Nickel office looking especially beautiful today. (Full disclosure: we’re just a tiny room in the basement…)
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Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · May 4
Wayne Miller's beautiful The End of Childhood, published by Milkweed Editions.
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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · May 4
Thanks so much for the shout out, Victoria!
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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · Apr 30
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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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · Apr 25
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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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · Apr 19
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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Darby Lyons @darbylyons.bsky.social · Apr 17
"Late Capitalism"
by @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social
from The End of Childhood. Milkweed Editions, 2025.
LATE CAPITALISM The poets lived their lives in late capitalism. They wrote their poems, bought their hybrids in late capitalism. They sent their kids to the best schools they could afford in late capitalism, made their homes in the economic centers of late capitalism. They pursued each other with the sexual vigor of late capitalism. They ate the charcuterie platters of late capitalism. They celebrated the cultural inclusivity of late capitalism as they taught in the universities of late capitalism, visited the resort towns of late capitalism. They rode around the world on the wings of late capitalism. They retired inside the 403(b)s of late capitalism. They promoted their events online in late capitalism. They vaped in the alleys of late capitalism, drank the imported whiskies of late capitalism. They gathered conspicuously on the steps of late capitalism, their meager crowd shook its fists at late capitalism. They were buried in the caskets of late capitalism, cremated in the fires of late capitalism. And you in the future of late capitalism, looking back at us through the glacier of late capitalism, what particles do you find sealed in late capitalism, what light penetrates the glassy compression of late capitalism? Book cover: The End of Childhood Poems Wayne Miller
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