Award-Winning Poet Reading

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Friday, January 27, 2012

Award-winning poet Wayne Miller will read from his work at 5 p.m., Feb. 8, in York College’s Wolf Hall Art Gallery. A question-and-answer session will follow the reading, and a selection of Miler’s books will be available for sale and signing. The event is free and open to the public.

Miller is the author of three collections of poems, “The City, Our City” (2011), “The Book of Props” (2009), and “Only the Senses Sleep” (2006). He is also the translator of Moikom Zeqo’s “I Don’t Believe in Ghosts” (2007) and a co-editor of both “New European Poets” (2008, with Kevin Prufer) and “Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master” (2011, with Takako Lento). The recipient of the George Bogin Award, the Lucille Medwick Award, and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, as well as a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the Bess Hokin Prize from the Poetry Foundation, Miller lives in Kansas City and teaches as the University of Central Missouri, where he edits “Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.”