Joseph Millar's Dark Harvest: New and Selected Poems is just out from Carnegie Mellon. His work has won fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches in Pacific University's low residency MFA.

Other poems by Joseph Millar in Verse Daily:
December 18, 2014:   "Valentine" "It's February in North Carolina..."

Books by Joseph Millar:

Other poems on the web by Joseph Millar:
Three poems
Two poems
"Ocean"
"Black Pan"
"Labor Day"
Two poems
Seven poems
Three poems

Joseph Millar's Website.

About Dark Harvest:

"Supremely sensory, everything in a Joseph Millar poem shimmers with authenticity. His is a hard-earned sensibility without a wisp of pretense. Unsurprisingly, the new poems are again spectacularly good: calmly visionary while tethered to the rough and ready. Millar's poems give shape to the bounty of plenty and the abundance of loss in a faulty world. One comes away knowing and, yes, feeling more of what it is to be fully awake. Dark Harvest is a book to keep at hand."
—Marvin Bell

"Wandering the narrow alleyways of these poems, into the bottomlands, I think of a Midrashic teaching someone told me: God made the world because he desired a dwelling place in the lowest realm. Why not here, among Millar's vagabonds and crows, his fishermen, trash fires and salt, 'the restless claws of the ocean / turning the pebbles and rocks and sand, / tumbling the chitin and shell fragments / ceaselessly and forever...'"
—Danusha Lameris

"Joseph Millar's new and selected is a feast of a book; epic in span, intimate in approach. With a deep lyric sensibility, Millar elevates the lives of 'ordinary' Americans into the matter of the sublime. He weaves the quotidian and ineffable into a love real and true."
—Chris Abani

"Discovering this work is like finding an old wooden crate filled with pristine hand grenades. Each of these poems can shatter you in multiple directions simultaneously."
—Peter Coyote