Joseph Millar



Joseph Millar is an American poet and academic.

Life
Millar was raised in western Pennsylvania. He received an M.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1970. He has worked as a telephone installation foreman and commercial fisherman and in 1997 gave up this blue collar life to try his hand at teaching. He has poems about fatherhood, labor, relationships and the life of the American man in the 20th Century.

His work has appeared in many magazines and journals, including The Alaska Quarterly Review, "DoubleTake," Ploughshares, Poetry International, and Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, New Letters, Raleigh Review and Shenandoah.

He has taught at Mount Hood Community College, Oregon State University.

He now teaches in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Pacific University and the Esalen Institute.

He is married to poet Dorianne Laux; they live in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Recognition
In 2002, Millar was awarded a Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2008 his work won a Pushcart Prize. He has also been the recipient of grants from the Montalvo Center for the Arts and from Oregon Literary Arts.

Publications

 * Slow Dancer (chapbook). Cherry Valley Editions, 1992.
 * Overtime. Eastern Washington University Press, 2001.
 * Fortune. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006.
 * ''Nightbound (chapbook). Idaho Review Press, 2009.
 * ''Bestiary (chapbook). Red Dragon Press, 2010.
 * Blue Rust. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012.