About Me
Welcome to Edward D. Miller’s site. Sorry, no merch—at least not yet! But lots of links.
I write poetry and creative nonfiction—much of my work is available online and I want you to access it easily. I also curate events and collaborate on media 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 now I am retiring from the City University of New York. In the last thirty years, I have taught over 2500 students! I plan on moving to Cape Cod soon with my spouse and our Chihuahua-mix. Stay tuned for works in progress and new nonfiction and poetry.
Current Work In Progress
A poem about passwords and verification codes
And O those endless verification codes.
I love/hate them all. They come. They go.
They appear miraculously on my phone
But they have a short life span indeed.
They gather.
They disperse.
But watch how they expire…
They surround me in a clearing to protect me.
But they mock me. And encourage me.
You’ll need a password and then a code to talk to me I’m afraid.
I’m that aloof which is to say, I am protected by numbers, letters, and symbols.
My brain is brimming with codes and passwords.
I am about to overflow.
I keep a booklet of them all. To make them less treacherous.
Transcribed, I cherish them.
And resent them too.
Surely, we are living in a regime of sequences…
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
“The Exchange Rate”
Inspired by Nicanor Parra, and imagining tariffs on the use of language