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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the direct link to submit: coppernickel.submittable.com/submit/33085...

Copper Nickel - Submit to the 2025 JAKE ADAM YORK PRIZE for a first or second poetry collection

The Jake Adam York Prize is open to poets writing in English, who live in the US or are US citizens, and who have published no more than one full-length poetry collection. (If you have a second book u...

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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · 2d

The deadline for the Jake Adam York Prize is October 15. But we always hold the door open till OCTOBER 18 for anyone who has an emergency or problem that gets in the way. PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD to any poets with a good first or second book manuscript!

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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 8d

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 · 26d

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 · 26d

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.

www.culturaldaily.com

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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

poets.org

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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

www.mercantilelibrary.com

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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

www.mercantilelibrary.com

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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)

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.

www.poetryfoundation.org

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