About Me
Welcome to Edward D. Miller’s site, a work-in-progress, updated regularly.
I write poetry and creative nonfiction—I want you to access it easily and come back here often. I also curate events and collaborate on media projects and I am eager to update you on my current projects. Please contact me if you have questions, responses, and ideas that you want to share.
Just a bit about me: I was born in Brooklyn, NY and grew up in London, England and Boston, MA. I have traveled extensively in Europe and South America but most of my adult life has been spent in Manhattan. I received my PhD from the Tisch School of the Arts/NYU, and I retired from the City University of New York. In the last thirty years, I have taught over 2500 students! I am now living on Cape Cod with my spouse and our Chihuahua. We live in an A-frame kit house that my mother owned, built in 1972. I am putting the finishing touches on a book of poems entitled “Disappearing Acts.” Stay tuned!
Current Work In Progress
A poem about rhymes and repetition
Flares, scissors, graft.
Rafts, turbulence, pillows.
Peccadillos, wisdom, silence.
License, incense, reliance.
Licorice, skirmish, garnish with varnish.
Demolish, puffer fish, spit and polish.
Ghoulish, goulash, gosh darn.
Mash and mosh, mix and match, splash.
Calabash, coup de grâce, hiccup.
Bleak Bus, Teacups, Speak Thus.
Poetry Work
“The Wrinkles” and “VIP Lounge”
Losing track of time, and finding the time to reflect upon the past.
“Binge-Watching a Dream,” “To Tell the Truth,” and “The Moment and the Sequence”
These poems form a trilogy about how the past informs the present.
“The House that Lota de Macedo Soares Built in Samambaia”
Midcentury modern in the jungle!
“Tanka Two”
About an origami swan. This one you will have to pay to read, but it is folded into a beautiful issue.
“The Enigmatic Life of Clara Sandoval”, “The Regime”, and “Tanka Number Three”
Three poems that enact political resistance