I’m honored to have been nominated for Connecticut State Poet Laureate! Results come out in June, so bated breath until then. Thank you, anonymous nominators!
“Bee Safe or Bee Sorry” by Meredith Miller. Pairs with my poem “To Make a Bee (After Emily Dickinson).”
Dreaming Animals on exhibit at Yale University
Dreaming Animals is live! The exhibition blurb, for your delectation: Dreaming Animals is an award-winning collaboration between photographer Meredith Miller and poet MJ Millington, exploring the complex relationship between humans and animals. Playing with words and images, each artist uses her own medium to explore the disjuncture between how we think and speak about animals, and how we behave towards them. Inspired by animal-themed children’s games, Miller prints images of endangered animals from the Beinecke Library’s digital collections and re-photographs them in playful scenes she creates with household objects. Millington then writes a poem to pair with each image, playing with common linguistic tropes, phrases, and clichés about animals to recast the stories found in well-worn expressions.
On exhibit at Yale Health through August 2022, before travelling to other venues…
Dreaming Animals Recordings now available on Soundcloud
You can now hear me read the poems from the Dreaming Animals series, in all my dulcet tones, on my Soundcloud page. Each recording is accompanied by the picture it’s paired with as part of the project. They’re short! Go listen!
Hear the poems, see the pictures from Dreaming Animals
Join me online on January 26, 2022 for a peek at the Dreaming Animals project, including a reading of selected poems from the series. Part of the Yale Environmental Humanities event “Humanities in Action: Storytelling, Mapping, and the Arts,” a project showcase featuring three recent environmental humanities projects supported by the Yale Environmental Humanities Grant Program.
Dreaming Animals Talk and Reading
Dreaming Animals awarded Yale University Grant
I’m pleased to announce that Meredith Miller and I have been chosen as recipients of a 2021 Yale University Environmental Humanities Grant, for our broadside collaboration Dreaming Animals. Pairing Meredith’s photographs with my poetry, the broadsides are an exploration of the complex relationship between humans and animals—particularly endangered animals.
Yale describes the grant program as “an effort to engage a wider public with humanities perspectives on environmental issues.” Along that line, we’ll be creating an exhibit to be mounted later in 2021. More information to follow!