Philip
Miller’s sixth book of poems, The Casablanca Fan, is due this year
from Unholy Day Press. His five previous collections include Cats in the House,
Hard Freeze, and Branches Snapping. He is author of several poetry
chapbooks, including Fathers’ Day, which won Ledge Press’s 1995 chapbook
award. He co-edited (with Gloria Vando) the anthology Chance of a Ghost.
His work has appeared in many magazines and journals, such as The Georgia Review,
Rattapallax, Poetry, Poetry Wales, Boulevard, Chelsea, Gargoyle, and Pivot.
Miller taught creative writing at Kansas City Kansas Community College for nearly
30 years and now lives in Mount Union, Pennsylvania, where he coordinates the
Aughwick Poets and Writers Reading Series, serves as contributing editor to BigCityLit.com,
and edits the biannual literary magazine, The Same.
Robert
Minhinnick’s poetry has been awarded the Cholmondeley Prize and two Forward
Prizes for “best individual poem.” Two of his collections of essays, To Babel
and Back and Watching the Fire Eater, have received the Welsh Book
of the Year award, and his first novel, Sea Holly (Seren Books, 2007),
was short-listed for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize in 2008.
His eighth collection of poetry, King Driftwood (Carcanet Press, 2008),
displays his keen awareness of both climate change (he is an environmental campaigner,
co-founder of Friends of the Earth and advisor to Sustainable Wales) and the current
situation in the Middle East. Minhinnick edited the international quarterly Poetry
Wales from 1997 until earlier this year. His translations from the contemporary
Welsh are to be found in The Adulterer’s Tongue: An Anthology of Welsh Poetry
in Translation (Carcanet, 2003).
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
Suggested
Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, and the Orchard Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.