Matt Miller joins Kate and Michael at the table to talk “poetry and place”, and his new collection Tender the River.
Tune in to hear us talk about Lowell, Massachusetts, the Merrimack River, and the “words that come out of the land.”
co starring
Kate Hanson Foster
Michael Schmeltzer
featuring Poet, Matt Miller
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Links to content mentioned in this episode:
Matt Miller
http://mattwmiller.com/poems Buy Matt’s books here: http://mattwmiller.com/books
Laurentide Ice Sheet (image) http://www.cosmographicresearch.org/prelim_glacial_maximum.htm “A Mystifying
Silence: Big and Black,” by Major Jackson https://www.aprweb.org/
Mills on the Merrimack (postcard) Source: University of Massachusetts Lowell
Portuguese mill workers, c. 1910. Source: Camara Family Collection – Center for Lowell History
Greek immigrants at Kostas Vergados cafe on Market. Source: Center for Lowell History
Cambodia Town, Lowell Ma (photo) Source: Cambodia Town Lowell Inc. https://www.facebook.com/CambodiaTownLowell
Pawtucket Falls (image) Source: Public Domain
Mill Girls (image) Source: NPS.gov
Name drops:
Major Jackson
Willie Perdomo
Meg Day
David Moloney
Shakespeare
Briant Paula
Caitlin Cowan
James Joyce
Claudia Rankine
M. Night Shyamalan
Matt W Miller is the author of Tender the River (Texas Review Press), finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Provocateur Award, and a finalist for the Jacar Press Julie Suk Award. and the New Hampshire Poetry Society Book Ward, and the Poetry by the Sea Book Award. Other books include the The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry), Club Icarus (University of North Texas Press), selected by Major Jackson as the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize winner, and Cameo Diner: Poems (Loom). He has published work previously in Narrative, Rhino Poetry, Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Southwest Review, Florida Review, Third Coast, Adroit Journal, and Poetry Daily, among other journals and was a winner of Nimrod International's Pablo Neruda Prize, the Poetry by The Sea Sonnet Sequence Contest, the River Styx Micro-fiction Prize, the Iron Horse Review's Trifecta Poetry Prize. The recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, he teaches English, coaches football, and coordinates the Assembly Program at Phillips Exeter Academy in coastal New Hampshire.
Kate Hanson Foster is the author of Crow Funeral (EastOver Press 2022) and Mid Drift, finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in 2011. A recent recipient of the NEA Sustainable Arts Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, she lives and writes in Groton, Massachusetts.
Michael Schmeltzer's most recent book of poetry, Empire of Surrender, is the winner of the 2021 Wandering Aengus Book Award. Along with Meghan McClure, he is the co-author of the nonfiction book A Single Throat Opens, a lyric exploration of addiction and family. His debut full-length Blood Song was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry, the Julie Suk Award, and the Coil Book Award.
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