Miller Wolf Oberman is a former

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Fellow as well as a 2016 winner of the 92nd St Y’s Boston Review/ Discovery Prize. His translation of selections from the “Old English Rune Poem” won

Poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize For Translation in 2013. Miller's first book "The Unstill Ones," a collection of poems and

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th c ...

translations was published in September 2017 by

Princeton University Press Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large. The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financia ...

. He lives in

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

with his wife, rock singer Louisa Rachel Solomon of The Shondes, and holds a PhD in English from the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from H ...

Awards

Discovery/Boston Review Prize, 2016. AWP Intro Award Journals Project, 2014 Honorable Mention for “Lies After the War.” John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation, 2013, awarded by Poetry Magazine for the “Old English Rune Poem.” The Wallace Stevens Student Poetry Prize, 2014. Finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, 2012. Winner of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2009. Winner of The Academy of American Poets University Prize, 2006. Recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, 2005. Recipient of the Flannery O'Connor Fellowship, 2004-2005. Winner of the Sarah Lawrence College Andrea K. Willison Poetry Prize, 2000.

Selected publications

Harvard Review ''Harvard Review'' is a biannual literary journal published by Houghton Library at Harvard University. History In 1986 Stratis Haviaras, curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University, founded a quarterly periodical called ''Erato''. ...

: “From Old English Rune Poem,” “The Ruin,” “Caedmon’s Hymn,” “Riddle 63” and “Riddle 94,” forthcoming. Southeast Review: “He Was Restless,” summer 2016.

The Minnesota Review ''The Minnesota Review'' is a literary magazine covering literary and cultural studies which places a special emphasis on politically engaged criticism, fiction, and poetry. Issues are often "themed," recent issues examining the nature of acade ...

: “Silentium” 2016.

Tin House ''Tin House'' is an American book publisher based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City. Portland publisher Win McCormack originally conceived the idea for a literary magazine called ''Tin House'' in the summer of 1998. He enlisted Holly MacArt ...

: “Wulf and Eadwacer” and “Tension” Winter 2016/17.

The Nation ''The Nation'' is an American liberal biweekly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis. It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's '' The Liberator'', an abolitionist newspaper t ...

: “Lies After the War,” forthcoming, 2016. Broadsided Press: “Morning Pastoral,” forthcoming, 2016.

Boston Review ''Boston Review'' is an American quarterly political and literary magazine. It publishes political, social, and historical analysis, literary and cultural criticism, book reviews, fiction, and poetry, both online and in print. Its signature form ...

: “Wolf Brother,” summer 2016. Fourteen Hills: “The Smokewood Tree,” summer, 2016.

Poetry Magazine ''Poetry'' (founded as ''Poetry: A Magazine of Verse'') has been published in Chicago since 1912. It is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Founded by Harriet Monroe, it is now published by the Poetry Foundati ...

: translation of “The Woman Who Cannot,” July/August, 2016. berfrois: “The Grave,” March, 2016, and “The Ruin” and “Dear Lengthening Day” June, 2016.

Beloit Poetry Journal The ''Beloit Poetry Journal'' is an American poetry magazine established in 1950 at Beloit College.Poetry Daily: “Who People Are,” February 25, 2016.

: “On Trans,” March, 2015.

: translation from the “Old English Rune Poem,” June, 2013. Rattle: “Ears” Summer, 2010. Realpoetik: “Myron,” “To Keep the House Quiet,” “Eighth Nerve” and “Daybreak,” April, 2008.

: “Dixie Paint,” Winter, 2006.

Bloom Magazine ''Bloom Magazine'' is a bimonthly culture and lifestyle magazine published in Bloomington, Indiana Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the central region of the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the seventh-largest ci ...

: “After the Demolition Derby,” Fall, 2005.

References

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