{{short description|American writer}} {{about||the New Zealand sprinter|Joseph Millar (athlete)|those of a similar name|Joseph Miller (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox writer <!--For more information, see :Template:Infobox Writer/doc.--> | name = Joseph Millar | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = Joseph millar 020546.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Joseph Hamilton Millar<ref name=MA>{{cite book |url=https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2/36803/commencement1970.pdf |article=Masters of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences |title=Conferring of Degrees at the close of the ninety-fourth academic year |date=May 27, 1970 |page=46 |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University |location=Baltimore, Maryland |access-date=4 November 2020}}</ref> | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | occupation = Poet | language = | nationality = American | ethnicity = | citizenship = United States of America | education = | alma_mater = Johns Hopkins University | period = | genre = Poetry <!-- or: | genres = --> | subject = <!-- or: | subjects = --> | movement = | notableworks = <!-- or: | notablework = --> | spouse = Dorianne Laux <!-- or: | spouses = --> | partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | children = 4 | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = | portaldisp = <!-- "on", "yes", "true", etc; or omit --> }} '''Joseph Millar''' is an American poet. He was raised in western Pennsylvania and after an adult life spent mostly in the SF Bay Area and the Northwest, he divides his time between Raleigh, NC and Richmond, CA.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.josephmillar.org/about.html|title=JOSEPH MILLAR &#124; ABOUT|website=www.josephmillar.org|access-date=Dec 8, 2020}}</ref>

==Life== Millar received a BA degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 and an MA degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1970.<ref name=MA/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joseph-millar|title=Joseph Millar|last=Poetry Foundation|date=Dec 8, 2020|website=Poetry Foundation|access-date=Dec 8, 2020}}</ref> He has worked as a telephone installation foreman and commercial fisherman and in 1997 gave up this blue collar life to try his hand at teaching. He has poems about fatherhood, labor, relationships and the life of the American man in the 20th Century.

His work has appeared in many magazines and journals, including ''The Alaska Quarterly Review'', "DoubleTake," ''Ploughshares'',<ref name="pshares">{{cite web | url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1054 | title=Doug Anderson | publisher=Plough Shares | access-date=2 August 2014}}</ref> ''Poetry International'', and ''Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, New Letters, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100729165528/http://www.raleighreview.org/Joseph_Millar.html Raleigh Review] and Shenandoah''.

He has taught at Mount Hood Community College, Oregon State University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/millar.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501092145/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/millar.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 1, 2011|title=Joseph Millar &#124; Poetry Everywhere|website=www.pbs.org|access-date=Dec 8, 2020}}</ref> He now teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Pacific University and the Esalen Institute.

He is married to poet Dorianne Laux; they divide their time between Raleigh, North Carolina and Richmond, CA.

==Awards== In 2002, Millar was awarded a Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2008 his work won a Pushcart Prize. He has also been the recipient of grants from the Montalvo Center for the Arts and from Oregon Literary Arts. In 2012, he was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/joseph-millar/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation &#124; Joseph Millar|access-date=Dec 8, 2020}}</ref>

==Works== * ''Overtime: Poems'', Eastern Washington University Press, 2001, {{ISBN|9780910055741}}, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, *''Fortune'', Eastern Washington University Press, 2007, {{ISBN|9781597660266}}, *''Blue Rust,'' Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012, {{ISBN|9780887485497}}.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rattle.com/poetry/blue-rust-by-joseph-millar/|title=BLUE RUST by Joseph Millar|date= January 10, 2012 |work=Rattle|quote=Elegiac snap-shots of 1960’s-1970’s industrial America like this one can be found throughout Blue Rust and make the collection’s title, given the ongoing economic downturn of the United States, seem particularly apt. |author=J. Scott Brownlee}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://josephmillar.org/Review%20of%20Blue%20Rust-%20Prarie%20Schooner.pdf/|title=Review of Blue Rust|date= Fall 2012 |work=Prairie Schooner|quote=In his remarkable third collection, Blue Rust, he lays down the shield of irony without taking up the consolations of easy sentiment or posturing despair. |author=Tim McBride}}</ref> * ''Kingdom'', Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017, {{ISBN|978-0887486210}}

;chapbooks *"Slow Dancer", Cherry Valley Editions, 1992, *"Nightbound", Idaho Review Press, 2009 *"Bestiary," from Red Dragonfly Press, 2010.

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==External links== *[http://www.pacificu.edu/as/mfa/faculty/index.cfm Pacific University MFA Faculty] *[http://www.JosephMillar.org JOSEPH MILLAR]

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