Miller Wolf Oberman is a poet who has won a

Ruth Lilly Ruth Lilly (August 2, 1915 – December 30, 2009) was an American philanthropist, the last surviving great-grandchild of Eli Lilly, founder of the Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical firm, and heir to the Lilly family fortune. A lifelong re ...

fellowship, the 2016 92nd St Y’s Boston Review/ Discovery Prize and a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship. His translation of selections from the “Old English Rune Poem” won

Poetry Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...

’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize For Translation in 2013. His collection "Impossible Things" is forthcoming from Duke University Press on 10/22/24. "The Unstill Ones," his first collection of poems and

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translations was published in September 2017 by

Princeton University Press Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large. The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial ...

. He serves on the board of Brooklyn Poets, is an editor at Broadsided Press, and teaches at

Eugene Lang College Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, commonly referred to as Lang, is the seminar-style, undergraduate, liberal arts college of The New School. It is located on-campus in Greenwich Village in New York City on West 11th Street off Sixth Avenue ( ...

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. Miller lives in

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with his wife, rock singer and rabbinical student Louisa Rachel Solomon of The Shondes and their children. He holds a PhD in English from the

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, an MFA from

Georgia College Georgia College & State University (Georgia College or GCSU) is a public liberal arts university in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States. The university enrolls approximately 7,000 students and is a member of the University System of Georgi ...

, and a BA from

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York, United States. Founded as a Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in 1926, Sarah Lawrence College has been coeducational ...

Awards

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, 2023. Discovery/Boston Review Prize, 2016. AWP Intro Award Journals Project, 2014 Honorable Mention for “Lies After the War.” John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation, 2013, awarded by Poetry Magazine for the “Old English Rune Poem.” The Wallace Stevens Student Poetry Prize, 2014. Finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, 2012. Winner of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2009. Winner of The Academy of American Poets University Prize, 2006. Recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, 2005. Recipient of the Flannery O'Connor Fellowship, 2004–2005. Winner of the Sarah Lawrence College Andrea K. Willison Poetry Prize, 2000.

Selected publications

Duke University Press Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 ...

: Impossible Things 2024

: The Unstill Ones 2017

Poetry Magazine ''Poetry'' (founded as ''Poetry: A Magazine of Verse'') has been published in Chicago since 1912. It is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Founded by poet and arts columnist Harriet Monroe, who built it int ...

: “Theory” and “Two Shabbats with Paul Celan, February 2023

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York T ...

: “The Wind is Loud” June 2021 Poets.org: “Commas” June 22, 2021

: “This and That at the Frick” June 2020 Poets.org: “Taharah” December 10, 2019

: “Joy” May 2019

Harvard Review ''Harvard Review'' is a biannual literary journal published by Houghton Library at Harvard University. History In 1986 Stratis Haviaras, curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University, founded a quarterly periodical called ''Erato ...

: “From Old English Rune Poem,” “The Ruin,” “Caedmon’s Hymn,” “Riddle 63” and “Riddle 94.” June 4, 2018 Southeast Review: “He Was Restless,” summer 2016.

The Minnesota Review ''The Minnesota Review'' is a literary magazine covering literary and cultural studies which places a special emphasis on politically engaged criticism, fiction, and poetry. Issues are often "themed," recent issues examining the nature of academ ...

: “Silentium” 2016.

Tin House ''Tin House'' is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City. History Portland publisher Win McCormack originally conceived the idea for a literary magazine called ''Tin House'' in the summer ...

: “Wulf and Eadwacer” and “Tension” Winter 2016/17.

The Nation ''The Nation'' is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis. It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's '' The Liberator'', an abolitionist newspaper ...

: “Lies After the War,” 2016. Broadsided Press: “Morning Pastoral,” 2016.

Boston Review ''Boston Review'' is an American quarterly political and literary magazine. It publishes political, social, and historical analysis, literary and cultural criticism, book reviews, fiction, and poetry, both online and in print. Its signature form ...

: “Wolf Brother,” summer 2016. Fourteen Hills: “The Smokewood Tree,” summer, 2016.

: translation of “The Woman Who Cannot,” July/August, 2016. berfrois: “The Grave,” March, 2016, and “The Ruin” and “Dear Lengthening Day” June, 2016.

Beloit Poetry Journal The ''Beloit Poetry Journal'' is an American poetry magazine established in 1950 at Beloit College.Poetry Daily: “Who People Are,” February 25, 2016.

: “On Trans,” March, 2015.

: translation from the “Old English Rune Poem,” June, 2013. Rattle: “Ears” Summer, 2010. Realpoetik: “Myron,” “To Keep the House Quiet,” “Eighth Nerve” and “Daybreak,” April, 2008.

: “Dixie Paint,” Winter, 2006. Bloom Magazine: “After the Demolition Derby,” Fall, 2005.

References

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