Wayne Miller

The Good Stuff My favorite books, music, films, & art from this year

I'm totally thrilled that @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social has listed THE END OF CHILDHOOD has one of her favorite books of 2025!

REVIEWS — RHINO — The End of Childhood, by Wayne Miller - Reviewed by John McCarthy Gregory Orr refers to the act of mining memory for poetry as turning toward, and going into, The Vanished Past. As expected, Orr’s Vanished Past is made up of disorder and chaos. The poet’s job is to ...

Wow. I'm so grateful for John McCarthy's incredible new review of The End of Childhood in RHINO!

I'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!

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...

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

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!

Thanks, Mike! And I'm so glad you're digging Emily's book. It's one of my very favorites in a long time.

Can't wait to read tomorrow (Thursday) with @emilybloodwolf.bsky.social at Basket Books in Houston! We start at 7:30. Come say hi!

Denver peeps! This is tomorrow evening (Tuesday) and will be amazing.

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.

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

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!

Copper Nickel 41 is at the printer!! Out officially on October 15.

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.

Grateful for this lovely new review of THE END OF CHILDHOOD!

Theological The super worked all day

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.

The End of Childhood: An Evening with Wayne Miller | August 08, 2025 | The Mercantile Library

This is tonight! Really looking forward . . .

The End of Childhood: An Evening with Wayne Miller | August 08, 2025 | The Mercantile Library

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!)

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!

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!

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!

(With @luisamuradyan.bsky.social)

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...

Check out MELISSA BOWERS piece "From the Ashes," which won Copper Nickel's Editors' Prize for Prose for issue 40!

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 Copper Nickel office looking especially beautiful today. (Full disclosure: we’re just a tiny room in the basement…)

Wayne Miller's beautiful The End of Childhood, published by Milkweed Editions.

Thanks so much for the shout out, Victoria!

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...

Grateful for this review of THE END OF CHILDHOOD by brilliant Canadian writer, editor, and literary citizen @robmclennan.bsky.social!

The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award The Poetry Society of America presents a number of prestigious awards each year.

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!—

Wayne Miller on Antonio Machado The American Poetry Review · Episode

It was so fun talking with @stevenkleinman.bsky.social about Antonio Machado—one of my very favorite poets—for @ampoetryreview.bsky.social's podcast!

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

"Late Capitalism"
by @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social
from The End of Childhood. Milkweed Editions, 2025.