This was so cool! It was a real pleasure to be featured on the Backlit Podcast, where @abenantoso.bsky.social asked some supersmart questions about my third book THE CITY, OUR CITY, and about my work more generally. Thanks, Abena!

And here's Mary Kuryla's wonderful story "Shadow Rabbit," which won the Copper Nickel Editors' Prize in Prose!

I'm thrilled to announce that @emilyskaja.bsky.social has won the Copper Nickel Editors' Prize in Poetry for issue 41! Here's her stunning poem, "Goodbye to All That."

This is also super cool! It's a really incredible list—I'm so happy to be on it. Big thanks to David Starkey!

I'm totally thrilled that @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social has listed THE END OF CHILDHOOD has one of her favorite books of 2025!

Wow. I'm so grateful for John McCarthy's incredible new review of The End of Childhood in RHINO!

I'm so happy to announce Copper Nickel's new Pushcart Nominations: Ayşe Papatya Bucak, Rivka Clifton, Vedran Husić, Keetje Kuipers, @luisamuradyan.bsky.social, and Matthew Neill Null!

The deadline for the Jake Adam York Prize is October 15. But we always hold the door open till OCTOBER 18 for anyone who has an emergency or problem that gets in the way. PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD to any poets with a good first or second book manuscript!

Can't wait to read tomorrow (Thursday) with @emilybloodwolf.bsky.social at Basket Books in Houston! We start at 7:30. Come say hi!

Denver peeps! This is tomorrow evening (Tuesday) and will be amazing.

We're seeking proposals for future Unsung Masters volumes! Send your proposal to unsung.masters.series[at]gmail[dot]com by October 15. For more info, visit unsungmasters.org or reach out to series editors @kevinprufer.bsky.social, @infinite-scroll.bsky.social, or @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social.

Don't miss the next Watershed Reading this Sat Sept 20, 7pm. Readers will include Wayne Miller (The End of Childhood), Mary Margaret Alvarado (American Weather), and Moisés Villavicencio Barras (co-founder, Cantera Verde). https://loom.ly/f3IBuA0

For my friends in/near Madison, Wisconsin!—Tomorrow (Saturday) I'll be reading at Art + Lit Lab with Mary Margaret Alvarado and Moisés Villavicencio Barras. Doors open at 6:30pm; reading starts at 7pm. Big thanks to Steven Espada Dawson for the invite!

Copper Nickel 41 is at the printer!! Out officially on October 15.

Grateful for this lovely new review of THE END OF CHILDHOOD!

My new poem "Theological" is up at today's Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day! Big thanks to @randallmann.bsky.social, whose curation this month has been incredible.

This is tonight! Really looking forward . . .

I haven't been home to Cincinnati in 15 years, so I'm doubly excited to read from THE END OF CHILDHOOD at the beautiful Mercantile Library on Friday, August 8. Come say hi! (And huge thanks to @yaliesaweda.bsky.social!)

What an incredible experience reading in the Milosz Festival in Kraków with Piotr Florczyk, who translated THE END OF CHILDHOOD AND OTHER POEMS into Polish!

Exciting news! Incredible poet PATRICIA SMITH will judge the 2025-6 Jake Adam York Prize. Here (below) is more info. We open for submissions on July 1. Please help spread the word!

This is one of the coolest things that's happened to me in my poetry life: My Selected Poems is coming out next month in Poland, and I'll be reading in the Miłosz Festival on 2 July. My deep thanks to Piotr Florczyk, Krysztof Siwczyk at Instytut Mikołowski, and Jerzy Jarniewicz!

Check out LUISA MURADYAN's beautiful poem "When I Say I Am Not the Speaker of My Poems," which won the Copper Nickel Editors' Prize in Poetry for issue 40! copper-nickel.org/when-i-say-i...

Check out MELISSA BOWERS piece "From the Ashes," which won Copper Nickel's Editors' Prize for Prose for issue 40!

I'm thrilled to learn that my poem "The End of Childhood"—title poem of my new collection—has won a Pushcart Prize! Big thanks to Poetry Magazine and Adrian Matejka!

The Copper Nickel office looking especially beautiful today. (Full disclosure: we’re just a tiny room in the basement…)

Wayne Miller's beautiful The End of Childhood, published by Milkweed Editions.

Grateful for this review of THE END OF CHILDHOOD by brilliant Canadian writer, editor, and literary citizen @robmclennan.bsky.social!

I'm honored to be named a finalist for this year's PSA Emily Dickinson Award. Check out Sasha Roque Pimentel's beautiful winning poem!—

It was so fun talking with @stevenkleinman.bsky.social about Antonio Machado—one of my very favorite poets—for @ampoetryreview.bsky.social's podcast!

"Late Capitalism" by @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social from The End of Childhood. Milkweed Editions, 2025.

Twin Cities folks!—I'll be reading tomorrow evening (Tuesday, April 15), 6pm, with @santisugi.bsky.social at Next Chapter Booksellers. (I'll also be visiting with classes at the U of M and St. Cloud State.) Chris' new book SMALL WARS MANUAL is BRILLIANT—go get a copy!

Big thanks to @tracibrimhall.bsky.social for inviting me to read a few poems by Colorado poets (including myself) for High Plains Public Radio. Here's my poem "On Childhood," from THE END OF CHILDHOOD.

Denver folks! I'll be launching THE END OF CHILDHOOD at MATTER (2114 Market St) this Thursday (Apr 3) at 6:30pm. Juan Morales and @kevinprufer.bsky.social will also read from their work. It should be super fun! We'll grab a drink afterward somewhere nearby. Come say hi!

It's publication day! THE END OF CHILDHOOD is officially out and in the world. For those going to AWP, I'll be signing at the Milkweed Booth (#1247) in the Book Fair from 4-5 on Friday. Come say hi!

BO HEE MOON has won this year's Jake Adam York Prize, chosen by Matthew Olzmann! Her extraordinary book BIRTHSTONES IN THE PROVINCE OF MERCY will be published in January 2026! So many wonderful books were finalists and semifinalists—please click the link to see the list.

Thrilled to see THE END OF CHILDHOOD recommended in @literaryhub.bsky.social alongside books by Marianne Boruch, Hedgie Choi, Rob Macaisa Colgate, Allison Bennis White, John Liles, and Rafael Alberti (trans. John Murillo). Big thanks to @poetmorgan.bsky.social for her kind attention!

It was a good mail day! Deep thanks to Rick Barot and @kathyfagan.bsky.social for their endorsements, as well as to @kevinprufer.bsky.social, @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social, Hadara Bar-Nadav, and Randall Mann for their edits, advice, and support. And thanks, as ever, to @milkweededitions.bsky.social.

“It’s grief, / capsized, / an itch / of otherwise. // The wind / elides— / relief / a thief— // the double life / of consonants: / passing; running. / Theatrical // as the clap / of a laptop” —Randall Mann, “Double Life” @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

This one by Forrest Gander.

Russel Edson, “Under Great White Flooded Clouds” From The Tormented Mirror, 2001

I'm grateful to Marcela Sulak for asking me all these great questions about my forthcoming book, poetry-in-general, translation, Albania, etc.!

Virginia Konchan’s forthcoming book Requiem is incredibly good.

This one by Michael Longley, forever.

World Literature Today thought today would be a good day to publish this story by Moikom Zeqo—about the fascist invasion of Albania and the various sectors of Albanian society that supported it.

I'm grateful to WEST BRANCH for publishing this one-sentence piece of lyric prose (which is one sentence in Albanian, too) by Moikom Zeqo, which I co-translated with Moikom's daughter Kleitia. It's sadly apposite today—about the contested city of Jerusalem.

“One board member advised me in passing / that a teenage daughter shouldn’t work— / she’d learn from her coworkers criminal things. / Instead, she should play soccer.” — @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social, “Meeting the Board”

Oh wow ! Peter Gizzi !

“At his table my dead father sat in the green sleeveless jacket with orange on the inside. Or now and then the jacket was reversed, depending on whether he was hunting me or hiding.” —David Keplinger, “Embarrassment”

“Small Wars Manual is a masterpiece, one of those books I read and know at once I’ll be coming back to the rest of my life.”—Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr! Beyond grateful to the remarkable group of wordsmiths who blurbed my new book. Can't wait to share them all soon! milkweed.org/book/small-w...

And . . . I'm 49. (Feeling: awful but cheerful.)