Poetry in the Afternoon

Joseph Millar's first collection of poetry, Overtime, was finalist for the Oregon Book Award and the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Millar grew up in Pennsylvania, attended Johns Hopkins University and spent 25 years in the San Francisco Bay area, working at a variety of jobs, from telephone repairman to commercial fisherman. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines including The Southern Review, TriQuarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, DoubleTake, New Letters, Ploughshares, Manoa, and River Styx. His work has won fellowships from the NEA in Poetry, Montalvo Center for the Arts and Oregon Literary Arts. In 1997 he began teaching at Pacific University's Low Residency MFA Program and yearly at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur. His most recent work is Fortune.

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