Tyler Mills is the author of two books of poems, Hawk Parable (winner of the 2017 Akron Poetry Prize) and Tongue Lyre (winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, and Poetry, and her essays have appeared in AGNI, Copper Nickel, and The Rumpus. The recipient of residencies from Yaddo, Ragdale, and the Vermont Studio Center, and scholarships/fellowships from Bread Loaf and Sewanee, the Chicago native is an assistant professor at New Mexico Highlands University, editor-in-chief of The Account, and a resident of Santa Fe, NM.

Other poems by Tyler Mills in Verse Daily:
April 27, 2013:   "Performance" "The story involves a whole village kept busy..."

Books by Tyler Mills:

Other poems on the web by Tyler Mills:
Two poems
Three poems
"Oracle"
"I/ Self/ Woman in Berlin"
Four poems
Four poems
"Marie Curie"
"Hansel in College"

Tyler Mills's Website.

Tyler Mills According to Wikipedia.

Tyler Mills on Twitter.

About Hawk Parable:

"Hawk Parable is a wise and beautiful book, yes. It is also terrifying, and marvelous in its attentiveness to detail, yes. But why? Because it is a kind of book that brings together the personal and historical , the narrative and the lyric. From 'First Thing' to the very last page, the poems of Hawk Parable take hurt and give us back a song. Bravo."
—Ilya Kaminsky

"Tyler Mills' second book, Hawk Parable, showcases the poet's distinctive combination of directness and meditative restraint. The book is meticulously researched , culled from the scientific and historical record of the United States's development and dropping of the atomic bomb. It is equally situated in the realm of the personal. As the mystery of the grandfather's involvement remains unresolved, so too the moral and ethical questions the poet raises can find no easy answers. Early on in the collection, Mills knowingly says: 'The land buries the thing we made to live / just beyond the imagination.' True as that is, Hawk Parable yet stands in opposition. These poems excavate the 'buried' past through the poet's fearless imagination."
—Shara McCallum

"Like a raptor spiraling skyward on an updraft—or a B-52 bomber circling its civilian target—Tyler Mills cycles through a breathtaking variety of recursive forms to achieve an aerial perspective on the cataclysm of our antecedent century in Hawk Parable. Telescoping military history into personal history, this writer sets her sights on nothing less than the nuclear era itself via her formal inquiry into the poetics of complicity, ancestry, and remembrance. 'Get ready for the secret of your life,' ends one poem, and in the silence that follows , we, too, must prepare ourselves for unsettling disclosures to come."
—Srikanth Reddy

"The poems of Hawk Parable arise from a profound lyric interiority, a seer self-reporting from a bottomless well. This voice has the astonishing ability to fold everything in— documentary history, material culture, apparent autobiography, formal perfection and range—while staying true to a distillation of deep feeling. The subject is our capacity for human and environmental annihilation; the process is archival—gathering scraps of information, texts of letters, testimonies, and taking personal journeys that allow for witness and delicate observation—in order to shore up memory and fact against an obliterative cultural amnesia. Mills' impeccable craft and her tender care of the image strike m e as the opposite of the indiscriminate violence of a bomb, but the parable of the hawk claims a more nuanced truth—that we are predators composed of feathers 'trimmed by the light.'"
—Diane Seuss