I won't be IN Florence, unfortunately, on Sunday for a poetry workshop, but I will be teaching THROUGH Florence online through Open Doors Review (Sunday, 11 - 12:30 pm EST online). Obviously I don't know how the internet works, but that's not what I'm teaching about, so you're in luck!

Oh, wow! What a good morning - thank you to @tupelopress.bsky.social Quarterly for highlighting Perforated (Lily Poetry Review) today. Thank you to Editor-in-Chief Kristina Darling for a conversation and folio and @dorothybendel.bsky.social y for a review!

Tomorrow is the last day of my current Brown Bag Lit poetry workshop. It has been another great one! Check out the books we read (we also workshop student poems...) What joy to spend so much time reading and discussing poetry! I'm starting to plan for next semester. Click through for more-

Thank you to Jehanne Dubrow for joining Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break members on Thursday for a generative writing workshop from her new craft book, The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma. Join our writing accountability group today to join the workshop: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break

Thank you to @sunuchandy.bsky.social for sharing the origin of her poem “Too Pretty” published in @splitthisrock.bsky.social’s The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database! chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/poems-orig...

Thank you to @rebeccamorrison.bsky.social for the beautiful YA book The Blue Dress. I thought a lot about my childhood and then my role as both a mother and teacher. It was beautiful, hard and real. I both enjoyed it and learned a lot. Thank you.

Thank you to the @writersforda.bsky.social for sharing my AWP 26 panel talk, Beyond the Picket Sign, on their Substack! Read for upcoming ways to get involved and things you can do yourselves. Please share additional ideas; we're all in this together. writersforda.substack.com/p/writers-to...

These actions suggested by @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social for @writersforda.bsky.social are ❤️‍🔥. Read, share, do what you can.

Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions; few are in book clubs - from @pewresearch.org www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Thank you to Arthur Turfa for writing a review of Perforated in The Midwest Book Review! www.midwestbookreview.com/rbw/mar_26.h...

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social here! For today's writing prompt, focus on how light - and/or darkness - can illuminate a moment. In the picture below, the silhouettes only appear because of both the light and darkness.

Subscribers to The Writing Jar receive weekly writing insight, prompts and more. Today I write about how the NYT game Connections not only angered me, but taught me something about writing that you can use, too. Become a member and read it today! chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/the-writin...

Thanks to Adrianne Mathiowetz Photography for a great photo shoot at AWP26!

Lots of good poetry-related things coming up this Poetry Month! Next up, I'm leading a poetry writing workshop for Open Doors Review on Sunday, April 19. Click through for more details and to register. chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/poetry-wor...

I just shared an email about four April happenings: 2 events and 2 workshops. Click through to read more. And email me if you'd like to be added to my mailing list! mailchi.mp/8b286f2338ff...

So happy to have a new poem in MER 24: The Mothers and Family Issue Get your copy here: merliterary.com/2026/04/03/m...

I'll be reading from Perforated at the Georgetown Library (@dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social) on Thurs., April 30th, with Michele Evans and Amanda Shaw! Don't miss this chance to hear three Smithie poets read and chat about their poems this Poetry Month! chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/perforated...

Thank you to Bernadine (Dine) Watson for writing this Poem's Origin. She writes about her poem for the late poet Reuben Jackson. This poem was originally published in WWPH WRITES (@wwph.bsky.social) If you love poetry, music, Reuben Jackson or the DC literary world, you'll love this origin story.

I loved our AWP 2026 panel “Beyond the Picket Sign: Writer’s Tools to Create Social Change.” Today @battlecake.bsky.social shares her talk from our panel on the @writersfordemocraticactionmn.org Substack. Enjoy and please share. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Coming up soon! I'm teaching an online writing workshop through Open Doors Review (Sunday, Apr 19 from 11:30 am EST to 1:30 pm EST - times listed through the link are Italy time.) Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-import...

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit: Imagine you are something else. What would / could you be?

In today's Writing Jar post, I share how the writing process is similar to the executive functioning skills we are working on with our almost-teenager. Subscribe today for this post and weekly posts on writing and the writing life. chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/the-writin...

Starting today at noon, if you'd like to join us! with @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social and @shastagrant.bsky.social

Naturally, the comment section of this post has attracted those who believe otherwise.

The picture is of my kid in my classroom in 2022, but I'm writing to share that I'm available to visit your classroom - in person or virtually - this fall!

Last call! This workshop with co-founders @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social and @shastagrant.bsky.social is tomorrow! We'd love to see you! Details: www.brownbaglit.com/classes

Happy April Fool's Day! It is also the day I met my husband in 2006 and the day that Aunt Dora passed in 2011. (A lot, huh?) (read the comments for more) chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/perforated...

My goal is to raise at least $300 for Red's Good Vibes! We are 38% of the way there! Woohoo! As a thank you, I'm offering a generative writing workshop open to all writers (any genre and level)! To join the workshop, please email me a copy of your donation receipt.

Thank you to David Ebenbach for sharing the origin story of his poem “The AI Feels Nostalgia" in my Poem's Origin Story series! chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/poems-orig...

Brown Bag Lit #RandomWritingPrompt from @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social: Look up! What do you see? What isn't there (i.e. what don't you see?) Start your writing by describing what is there and work to frame the content in some way.

This week's Writing Jar post is a writing prompt that starts with food (doesn't have to be an apple!) Subscribe for this and more! chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/the-writin...

What can we do to help (gestures widely)? We can raise money! Join me in fundraising for a group supporting immigrants: Red's Good Vibes! If you donate (at least) $20.00 and email me (chloemiller(at)gmail(dot)com) your receipt, I'll send you a Zoom link to join a generative writing workshop,

Thank you to @awordsmithie.bsky.social for sharing Her Poem's Origin Story today. Read her poem “anticlea” which was first published by @alansquirepub.bsky.social and then in purl, her first full poetry collection from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social!

Thank you to @hilaratzabi.bsky.social for being the inaugural poet in my new series Poem's Origin Story! She shares where the idea for a poem published in @consequencef.bsky.social came from. As an added bonus, she's teaching a related writing workshop next month!

Kid is on spring break and joining @brownbaglit.bsky.social's Lunch Break Writers accountability group today! This isn't what we're eating (but rather what I wish we were eating? Two panini from Matera, Italy, last summer.) Be like the kid and join us, too? www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break

#MovieKid reviews One Battle After Another www.youtube.com/@movies4all6... with @profhansnoel.bsky.social

"There are things that will happen that are no good, but you can resolve them...A broken bone is one thing, but a school shooting is quite different." - @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social, author of the poetry collection, Perforated, w Amanda Fields & @evalangston.bsky.social on This Mama Is Lit!

#RandomWritingPrompt: @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social here. I love when I can "see through" something & there's a resulting palimpsest (laying/co-existence) of experiences - what was, is and will be. Thinking about construction, write on the topic of "what's still standing." Is it you? A memory?

This post came naturally out of planning for my upcoming Finish the Book Brown Bag Lit class that I'm co-teaching with Shasta Grant! Hope you can join us: www.brownbaglit.com/classes

In this week's Writing Jar post, I share a bit about where my poems and books come from (a sort of birth story, if you will.) Become a subscriber to The Writing Jar for weekly insights and more related to the (mostly poetry) writing life. chloeyelenamiller.substack.com

We just sent a Brown Bag Lit email to subscribers highlighting two recent Milk Journal pieces, an AWP gathering and an upcoming class, as well as news! Let us know if you'd like to be added to our mailing list. mailchi.mp/240e27275bd9... @shastagrant.bsky.social & @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social

@shastagrant.bsky.social t and I are not only here to help you to write your book, but also to finish it! Check out our new, online class through @brownbaglit.bsky.social on Thursday, April 2, from 12 - 1:30. chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/brown-bag-...

Brown Bag Lit’s Milk Journal thanks Miho Kinnas for reviewing No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington, DC, by Brian Gilmore (Georgetown University Press) www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal

Thank you so much, @literarymama.bsky.social - Amanda Fields and @evalangston.bsky.social - for this great conversation about Perforated (Lily Poetry Review Books)!

Looking forward to this and hope you can join us over at @brownbaglit.bsky.social!

I'm headed to the post office tomorrow with more signed copies, if you'd like to order one for this shipment! I'll be sure to include a custom sticker and bookmark by Lauren Gertzman, as well as perforate the cover page! chloeyelenamiller.substack.com/p/perforated...

We're hiring a Washington-based staff writer to help us launch an exciting new project! You can live in Virginia or Maryland, but you’ll be expected to be on the Hill when Congress is in session. Learn more + apply: trib.al/6A8QVpS

I am sorry to share that I have been sick since AWP - it has waxed and waned, but won't go away. Which is to say, I am not on a plane to Arkansas right now to read at the Paper Hearts Bookstore in Little Rock tonight and then the Wednesday Night Poetry Series in Hot Springs tomorrow night.

In today's Writing Jar post, I share thoughts on how to title a poem or collection for subscribers. I outline five approaches and offer three examples (from Danielle Jones, Marilyn Nelson and my second book.) Subscribe to my substack today for full access! chloeyelenamiller.substack.com

#MovieKid and his friend live chatting about the Oscars! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUGf... with @profhansnoel.bsky.social