Join me as I help celebrate poet (and friend) Amy Miller on the release of her Chad Walsh Prize-winning chapbook Astronauts.

Praise for Astronauts:

"In the imagistically taut and heartbreakingly compelling poems of Astronauts, Amy Miller chronicles the relationship of two sisters: the older sister who does pills and drinks too much, and the younger sister, the speaker of these poems, whose heroes were all drunks, along for the ride until she’s not, having left for another life beyond her sister’s addictions. In ‘Cop’ the speaker says of her sister, ‘You should have seen her. She was so beautiful,’ and after her sister’s death she asks,‘Will she argue with me in my dreams?’ The answer is yes, and we do see her in the bittersweet trouble and love of poem after extraordinary poem."

—Maxine Scates, author of My Wilderness

“We enter these poems at our own risk, plunging into the author’s deepest inner and outer spaces, her absolute zero of memory, love and loss. Miller’s writing is ferocious and fiercely original. It is rare to feel oneself being changed in the course of reading poems. These will leave you changed.”

—John Witte, author of Disquiet

Reading hosted by Beloit Poetry Journal. Would love to see you there. Link to be posted soon.