Greg Miller (poet)


David Gregory Miller is an American poet and academic. He has written four books of poetry. He is professor Emeritus of English at Millsaps College in Mississippi. Miller's poems have published in several literary magazines.

Biography

Miller was born in Kentucky. He has been a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Yaddo and MacDowell Colonies in the United States, and at the and the in France. Miller was named Mississippi Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Miller was the at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi where he served as chair of the English Department and President of the Faculty Council.
Miller received his Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University and his B.A. in French Literature and Political Science from Vanderbilt University. Miller served as chair of the Sudanese Ministry Committee of the Episcopal Church, Diocese of Mississippi, where he edited and published, with the help of his students, a pamphlet of personal stories by Sudanese refugees entitled .

Works

Poetry

Iron Wheel University of Chicago PressRib Cage University of Chicago PressMississippi Sudan by Mercy Seat PressWatch University of Chicago Press' Paraclete Press

Literary criticism

The Language of Love in the Poetry of George Herbert and Emily Dickinson doctoral dissertation at University of California, BerkeleyScribal and Print Publication: The Case of George Herbert's English Poems '''', Volume 23, Numbers 1 & 2"Glorious, Afflicting, Beneficial": Triangular Romance and Dickinson's Rhetoric of Apocalypse ''The Emily Dickinson Journal, Volume 11, Number 2George Herbert's ‘Holy Patterns’: Reforming Individuals in Community Memory Work: Poetry, the Unconscious, and Justice: A Review of Peter Dale Scott’s “Poetry and Terror, Politics and Poetics in Coming to Jakarta”''

Works on line

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