Tyler Mills is the author of City Scattered (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo Press 2022), Hawk Parable (Akron Poetry Prize, University of Akron Press 2019), Tongue Lyre (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Southern Illinois University Press 2013), and co-author with Kendra DeColo of Low Budget Movie (Diode Editions Chapbook Prize, Diode Editions 2021). Her nonfiction manuscript-in-progress, The Bomb Cloud, recently received a Literature Grant from the Café Royal Foundation NYC. A poet and essayist, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Believer, and Poetry, and her essays in AGNI, Brevity, Copper Nickel, River Teeth, and The Rumpus. Founding Editor of The Account, she teaches for Sarah Lawrence College's Writing Institute and lives in Brooklyn.

Other poems by Tyler Mills in Verse Daily:
September 20, 2019:   "The Sun Rising, Pacific Theatre" "Here we have another moment of blue-sky thinking..."
April 27, 2013:   "Performance" "The story involves a whole village kept busy..."

Books by Tyler Mills:

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

Tyler Mills's Website.

Tyler Mills on Twitter.

About City Scattered:

"We also participate in the city itself as it becomes a kaleidoscope of rapidly shifting images, making quick, expert cuts into each other, juxtaposing an arousing, energized youth, dancing, drinking, and punching time-clocks, with black-and-white, grainy newsreel imagery of unemployment lines and laundry drying in coal-polluted air. Tyler Mills keeps her language sharp and flat, vivid and yet frank, augmenting the sense of documentary accuracy that the series' source text, an ethnographic study of labor in Germany in 1930, lends to the work. City Scattered is also a study, we are told, and we in turn, study these voices, compare them to our own and those around us and are reminded that despite ‘mechanical tasks, / interchangeable . . . I (is) / no less a person."
—Cole Swensen

"City Scattered invokes the bleak not-so-caberet-life of an imagined Berlin in four voices. Along with a German woman, there's an ethnographer who plays a Victrola and takes notes ('but you can already/ find all that in novels,' answers an informant), an interlocutor critiquing, and a chorus (counted as one voice). The Berlin woman 'being self-serving, promiscuous, and unmotherly, was nevertheless the darling of a new consumer culture' negotiates the realm. 'The real power of light is presence' writes author Tyler Mills, but the light shed in the series 'I/Self/Woman in Berlin' is a power itself 'with coal staining the sheets/like ink.' Congratulations, a fine chapbook!"
—Terese Svoboda

"In City Scattered, through gorgeous strands of speech, Tyler Mills perceptively reintegrates our sacred, forgotten past into a portrait of a woman whose self-possession and complexity are palpably rendered. Only a poet with such sensitivities of language can so clearly hear and interpret the immortal silence of history; only a poet attuned to her own incandescent spirit can test the oneiric nature of poetry with such vigor of mind."
—Major Jackson

"Tyler Mills' The City Scattered is a rich document of the 'inner architecture' and social displacements that occur under the 'skies / of capital.' Its choral structure deftly links the late days of the Weimar Republic to labor in the age of Amazon. Through swift images and attention to the complexity of pleasure, Mills' poems show the independence and alienation of workers, particularly women, for whom the 'purse thickens' while unemployment rises and money is 'losing value.' Her crisp, suggestive case study illuminates the confluence of precarity and prosperity at the heart of our era. 'Do not lean out,' warns a sign on a window in one poem; but we're already leaning closer to read."
—Zach Savich