|
Joseph Robert Mills Writer and Faculty Member, University of North Carolina School of the Arts |
Joseph Mills has degrees in literature from the University of Chicago (B.A.), the University of New Mexico (M.A.), and the University of California-Davis (Ph.D). As he was working on his third one, his mother asked, "Don't you know that stuff yet?" A faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, he holds the Sue Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities. His published work includes poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism. He has published three volumes of poetry with Press 53: Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers, Somewhere During the Spin Cycle and Love and Other Collisions. Joseph and his wife, Danielle Tarmey, are the authors of A Guide to North Carolina's Wineries (John F. Blair, Publisher). The second edition was released in 2007. In addition to teaching at UNCSA, Joseph is the Poet-in-Residence at Salem College. |
 Love and Other Collisions is now available. |
||
 ANGELS, THIEVES, AND WINEMAKERS was called by the Washington Post "a must have for wine-lovers" and the poem "The Good Nights" was featured on Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac." What a few have said: "Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers is a collection of revelations, truths to be found in and about wine. Witty, mordant, melancholy, funny—these bright poems fix and illumine the many moods we may encounter in a bottle of happy red. I shall recommend this volume most heartedly, saying, 'Here, I think this / will help make things a little better.' "— Fred Chappell "Talk of wine and you talk of life … as these poems do with wit and wisdom and a little wistfulness. They are poems to read aloud, best enjoyed with glass in hand and shared in the company of friends and fellow wine lovers." Barbra Ensrud, "The Cork Report" This book "is filled with wit and vivacity. His poems on wine and the world of wine are sometimes sincere homage, sometimes social satire, sometimes spirtual longing. These poems reflect a sensuous love of the material world and an unrepentant commitment to play in the face of what we are told to take serious." -- David Romtvedt, Wyoming Poet Laureate
 |
2010 Readings and Appearances: March 11: King Library, NC Road Scholars Presentation: North Carolina in a Bottle, 7 pm March 20: Raffaldini Vineyards Spring Celebration March 25: Kenan Institute, Winston-Salem April 1: Book Launch of Love and Other Collisions at Gallery of the Arts, Winston-Salem April 15: Salem College, Single Sisters House, 7 pm. April 22: 4th Thursday Book Club, Central Library, Winston- Salem, 12:30 May 1: Poetry, Jazz, and Java at Coffee at the Summit, Greensboro, 2 pm May 1: Barnhills Books, Winston-Salem. 5 - 7 pm May 15: Gallery of the Arts reading May 26: Shakespeare and Co., Kernersville, 6 pm. Reading with Marjory Wentworth June 3: Uptown Wine & Gallery, Yadkin Arts Council. 6:30 pm |
||
|
Some Selected Work Available on the Web Two Poems in Quicksilver Poems on Music in Ghoti Magazine Poem on spring in Foundling Review Poems about teaching in MountainRise A poem in Umbrella Journal on Frida Kahlo New Poems in Foliate Oak from the collection "Love and Other Collisions" A few thoughts on "The Advantages of Being a Poet" in Umbrella Journal "The Land and Legacy of Super Chicken," An essay on growing up next to an Indiana State Park in The Raven Chronicles |
||
|
Somewhere During the Spin Cycle  In a voice both rueful and companionable, Joe Mills inscribes through these poems the wavering circle of everyday life, the center of which is everywhere and the circumference nowhere -- exactly the radius of the human heart. - John P. O'Grady  |
