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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 Susan 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. Currently, he is working on his fourth volume of poetry, "Sending Christmas Cards to Huck and Hamlet," which should be released by Press 53 in the spring of 2012. |
 Love and Other Collisions "The Guardian" featured on "The Writer's Almanac" with Garrison Keillor
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 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." Hear Keillor read "The Good Nights" 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
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2011 Readings and Appearances:
January 12: Kenan Institute, Breathe Presentation with Dale Pollock: You Say You Had a Revolution, Paris, May 1968
January 14: Davie Sr. Services. NC Road Scholars Presentation: Dancing Through the Depression, 11:30 am
January 20: Short Shorts readings, Salem College,
Shirley Hall, 7 pm
January 29: Press 53, 5.3 Anniversary Party, 6-9
February 4, AWP Conference, Washington, DC, Press 53 Booth
February 11: Wine, Jazz, and Poetry with Matt Kendrick,
Gallery of the Arts, 7-9 pm
March 16: White Stone Retirement Center. NC Road Scholars Presentation: Dancing Through the Depression, 2:30 pm
April 9: Center for Creative Writing: Gathering of Poets,
A day of workshops and readings
April 16: University of Central Florida Bookfest
April 30: North Carolina Writers' Network Conference, Greensboro, workshop and reading
May 7: Raffaldini Vineyards. Spring Celebration 1 - 3 pm.
June 9: Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill
June 23: Great American Writers Camp, Wake Forest University
September 17: North Carolina Poetry Society, Southern Pines
October 17: Osher Lifelong Living Institute, Blowing Rock. NC Road Scholars Presentation: North Carolina in a Bottle
October 27: Press 53 Wine and Words Anniversary Party.
November 9: Meredith College, Raleigh. 7 pm.
NC Road Scholars Presentation: North Carolina in a Bottle
November 11: Community Arts Cafe Open House
2012 Readings and Appearances:
February 8: Piedmont Cross, 2 pm. NC Road Scholars Presentation: North Carolina in a Bottle.
February 10: Fourth Street Carousel. Community Arts Cafe.
March 31: Lewisville Library
April 4: Sandhills Community College, Pinehurst, 1 pm. NC Road Scholars Presentation: North Carolina in a Bottle
April 18: Salem College. 7:30. Single Sisters House
May 3: Press 53 Day reading.
August 26: McIntyre's Books, Fearrington Village |
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Some Selected Work Available on the Web Two Poems about fairytales in Prime Number Magazine.
in Prime Number Magazine.
A Conversation with Ed Southern in Eclectica
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 An Open Letter to Poets in Prime Number Magazine. |
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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 
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