Andrew Miller's Blog, page 4

HCE Review Literary and Arts Journal

      I’m grateful to the editors at HCE Review (hcereview.com) for selecting one of my photographs from my From Above series to be featured in their November 2018 journal of literature and art. You can download the PDF version of the HCE Review for this issue and others (they’re all worth checking out) […]

Industrial Worker article

I have a new article in the summer edition of Industrial Worker which you can subscribe to or download the full issue from the Industrial Workers of the World website (IWW.org) by clicking this link: https://www.iww.org/projects/IW Otherwise you are welcome to check out my article about being a dual-card-holder and my opinion about the state of […]

Victoria Lomasko Interview in The Nasiona

  Every summer my family takes a vacation – which we lovingly refer to as our geek vacation – at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York. This year I had the great opportunity to hear a lecture by Victoria Lomasko, a graphic reporter who covers human rights issues and other activism across Russia. Even […]

X-R-A-Y Lit Mag Piece

I’m super thankful for Chris and Jennifer picking up my flash-fiction piece “6:54” for publication. You can read it here:

Yes Poetry published my review

I reviewed Matthew Rohrer’s latest book, The Others (Wave Press 2017), for Yes Poetry. You can read it here: http://www.yespoetry.com/news/review-...  

Micro Essay 9 – Amiri Baraka’s “Somebody Blew Up America”

How do I enter a poem critically when I find it so perfect to the point of being confounded? Hearing “Somebody Blew Up America” being read by its author, Amiri Baraka, made me want to stand up in my cubicle and scream out “Whooooooo” myself – and for better or worse this wouldn’t be the […]

Micro Essay 8 The Beats and Bars of Mackey

In Nathaniel Mackey’s poem “Sound and Sentience” I found a familiar connection between the field of composition captured by Olson and the field of tonal dynamics brought to life in the broader Splay Anthem collection. “Sound and Sentience” is placed on the page in such a way as to remind the reader of the registry […]

Micro Essay 7 – Re-engineering

This week’s micro essay examines Joanne Kyger’s poem, titled: Very Important & Natural Absorbed in People Magazine Beyond Giddy Following the examination, I have provided a re-engineered take on this poem of my own creation. The first thing I notice is the sarcasm within the title, which feels less like a title to me, and […]

Blockfort event: Barter & More the Merrier

I’m excited to announce that I’ll have several pieces on hand as part of this Blockfort juried exhibition. Hope you can make it! Full details at this event page link: https://www.facebook.com/events/17390... Blockfort is an artist run studio and gallery space in Columbus, OH. More information about their many amazing events and exhibition opportunities can be found […]

Micro Essay – Kyger “seventy-seven…”

Kyger “seventy-seven…” response by Andrew Miller Coming across Kyger’s poem “Seventy-Seven Beautiful and Adorable Things for Arthur Okamura’s 77th Birthday” was very interesting given its construction as a list, and it reminded me of some points that were made by my cohort member, Dameion Wagner, about how wide ranging Kyger is without ever being demoted […]