mj millington

MJ Millington is a poet, multimedia artist, and creator of the podcast Rime: Stories About Poetry. Her publications include My Secret Inky Vice, 17th Century Gentlemen Talk About Flowers, and others. She was the recipient of a 2021 Yale University Environmental Humanities Grant, as well as a winner of the Vermont Studio Center Broadside Competition 2020. She was the 2018 Edwin Way Teale Artist-in-Residence at Trail Wood; and in 2022 was nominated for Connecticut State Poet Laureate.

As a poet she translates the world of the senses, including the visual, into the written word. As a multimedia artist working in textiles, photography, paper and more, she plays with the structures and forms of poetry to create works of visual art. She has exhibited nationally, and her work is in the collections of Yale University, as well as private collections in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, California and New York.

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