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.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3ml4itsffms25Big thanks to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social at The Slowdown for featuring my new poem "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," which was first published by by Plume! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 15:28 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4itsffms25https://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3mkur57wjhc2qI'm super grateful for @lajohnson.bsky.social's new review of THE END OF CHILDHOOD in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/wayne-miller-end-childhood-poetry-boyhood-violence-review/02 May 2026 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkur57wjhc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3maeatho6fs2kThis was so cool! It was a real pleasure to be featured on the Backlit Podcast, where @abenantoso.bsky.social asked some supersmart questions about my third book THE CITY, OUR CITY, and about my work more generally. Thanks, Abena! https://www.abenantoso.com/podcast/backlit/the-city-our-city-complexity-tension-and-our-moment-in-history19 Dec 2025 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3maeatho6fs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3ma53esuck223And here's Mary Kuryla's wonderful story "Shadow Rabbit," which won the Copper Nickel Editors' Prize in Prose! https://copper-nickel.org/shadow-rabbit/16 Dec 2025 21:23 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma53esuck223https://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3ma27edwuz22mI'm thrilled to announce that @emilyskaja.bsky.social has won the Copper Nickel Editors' Prize in Poetry for issue 41! Here's her stunning poem, "Goodbye to All That." https://copper-nickel.org/goodbye-to-all-that/15 Dec 2025 17:56 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma27edwuz22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3m7bkp2my6k2iThis is also super cool! It's a really incredible list—I'm so happy to be on it. Big thanks to David Starkey! https://calirb.com/the-best-poetry-books-of-2025/05 Dec 2025 22:42 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7bkp2my6k2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3m76e2q4uyk2rI'm totally thrilled that @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social has listed THE END OF CHILDHOOD has one of her favorite books of 2025! https://maggiesmith.substack.com/p/the-good-stuff-bd904 Dec 2025 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m76e2q4uyk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3m6l26rgz5c25Wow. I'm so grateful for John McCarthy's incredible new review of The End of Childhood in RHINO! https://rhinopoetry.org/reviews/wayne-miller-reviewed-by-john-mccarthy?fbclid=IwY2xjawOUcQ5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFXd0FTNkcwZWxEQWxDOTlDc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHlo7mq-cv1BefhpSdCbvo6u3wq31Z4uiUy91woWQa0FROny6ELtlgsO4jyXG_aem_TtxFtZS8456qYxrr1mfdbQ26 Nov 2025 23:48 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6l26rgz5c25https://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3m3q2ug6iyk27I'm so happy to announce Copper Nickel's new Pushcart Nominations: Ayşe Papatya Bucak, Rivka Clifton, Vedran Husić, Keetje Kuipers, @luisamuradyan.bsky.social, and Matthew Neill Null!21 Oct 2025 19:28 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3q2ug6iyk27https://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3m33kahblak2tThe 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!13 Oct 2025 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m33kahblak2thttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3m2pbverz4c2aCan't wait to read tomorrow (Thursday) with @emilybloodwolf.bsky.social at Basket Books in Houston! We start at 7:30. Come say hi!08 Oct 2025 18:36 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2pbverz4c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3m2kktjryjs27Denver peeps! This is tomorrow evening (Tuesday) and will be amazing.06 Oct 2025 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2kktjryjs27https://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3lz77erdyzs2rFor 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! https://artlitlab.org/events/september-watershed-reading-419 Sep 2025 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz77erdyzs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3lxz67puw622aCopper Nickel 41 is at the printer!! Out officially on October 15.04 Sep 2025 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxz67puw622ahttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3lxcwumrbcs2xGrateful for this lovely new review of THE END OF CHILDHOOD! https://www.culturaldaily.com/review-the-end-of-childhood-by-wayne-miller/26 Aug 2025 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxcwumrbcs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3lwyjle72722oMy 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. https://poets.org/poem/theological22 Aug 2025 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwyjle72722ohttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3lvvg7eqp6c2sThis is tonight! Really looking forward . . . https://www.mercantilelibrary.com/events/calendar/2025/08/08/the-end-of-childhood-an-evening-with-wayne-miller?fbclid=IwY2xjawMC4vRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEzbmltVGY3cmw1a3ZxbGxpAR7dq7DYLaTDywS-r8WNdgLJEVxqmqKN7bVP99nMm1EQtRzkpuOkrnHR2Njo5w_aem_XMdEKkZzpEKzUg4gtUd7UA08 Aug 2025 14:03 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvvg7eqp6c2shttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3lv7iqnjvd22oI 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!) https://www.mercantilelibrary.com/events/calendar/2025/08/08/the-end-of-childhood-an-evening-with-wayne-miller30 Jul 2025 20:50 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv7iqnjvd22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3ltbxzlsejs2vWhat an incredible experience reading in the Milosz Festival in Kraków with Piotr Florczyk, who translated THE END OF CHILDHOOD AND OTHER POEMS into Polish!06 Jul 2025 09:38 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltbxzlsejs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3lsls6y4mms2fExciting 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! https://copper-nickel.org/bookprize/27 Jun 2025 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsls6y4mms2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3lrir4oz7yc2tThis 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!13 Jun 2025 15:33 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrir4oz7yc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3lqqbxc55sk2jCheck 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! https://copper-nickel.org/when-i-say-i-am-not-the-speaker-of-my-poems/03 Jun 2025 21:58 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqqbxc55sk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3lqn7kicnis24Check out MELISSA BOWERS piece "From the Ashes," which won Copper Nickel's Editors' Prize for Prose for issue 40! https://copper-nickel.org/from-the-ashes/02 Jun 2025 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqn7kicnis24https://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3lqfn3ltzd22iI'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! https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1625074/the-end-of-childhood30 May 2025 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqfn3ltzd22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/waynemillerpoet.bsky.social/post/3lppbyj2y5s2lThe Copper Nickel office looking especially beautiful today. (Full disclosure: we’re just a tiny room in the basement…)21 May 2025 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:36ow6d25hh5vmqknwge7cic7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lppbyj2y5s2l