About What Night Says to the Empty Boat:
"In his radiant and imaginative debut chapbook, Wayne Miller sees the world in scenes, through a clear lens, in order to focus and cherish it. He accrues a moving story—a deeply human one—and sings against our disappearance."
--Ed Hirsch
"It's high time Wayne Miller's work appeared outside the pages of literary magazines, for he is one of the best young poets at work today. In What Night Says to the Empty Boat, Miller constructs in poetry a fragmented, evocative narrative as seen through the lens of a filmmaker's camera, all the while redefining our expectations of both genres. The poems in this superb first collection are complex, highly intelligent, visually stunning, and at times deeply moving."
--Kevin Prufer
Wayne Miller's chapbook will be available in winter 2005.
Read The Tightrope Walker, first printed in The Laurel Review.
Wayne Miller has received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize. He lives in Kansas City and teaches at Central Missouri State University, where he serves as poetry editor of Pleiades.