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11 Oct 201910 Oct 2019Tim Miller

Dostoevsky’s Nightmare

Raskolnikov’s horrible dream, from early on in Crime & Punishment: Raskolnikov had a fearful dream. He dreamt he was back in his childhood in the little town of his birth. He was a child about seven years old, walking into the country with his father on the evening of a holiday. It was a grey […]

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8 Jul 201911 Aug 2021Tim Miller

New story at Cutthroat: “The Frog”

Many thanks to the editors at Cutthroat (Pamela Uschuk, and fiction editor Bill Luvaas) for publishing my story “The Frog” in their spring issue. It is only available in print (I’ve pasted the first two pages below), and you can subscribe the journal here. The story is part of a larger collection of poetry and […]

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18 Feb 20199 Aug 2021Tim Miller

Missing Child (poem)

Missing Child The sound of them woke me in the morning, feet kicking up careful spirals of leaves and lean, low voices under my window. All the way to the woods there’s a line of them, a missing boy overnight their care won’t solve: the world is too small to search all of it. I […]

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Notes from the Grid: The Perpetual Adolescent - Human Voices Wake Us

Preorder print copies of Notes from the Grid here. https://wordandsilence.com/human-voices-wake-us/ For the next month or so, I will be reading a short book of essays, Notes from the Grid, that I have been writing since 2006. Tonight, I read the sixth and seventh (which begins at 20:30). Spirit Murmur, the album of string quartet music I mention in the episode, composed by Alan Hovhaness and performed by the Shanghai Quartet, can be purchased here. As always, send any comments to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support
  1. Notes from the Grid: The Perpetual Adolescent 51:19
  2. Notes from the Grid: All Things Can Console 42:32
  3. Notes from the Grid: To Criticize the Critic 37:58
  4. Notes from the Grid: Rediscovering the Hidden Life 38:38
  5. Walt Whitman's Mystical Poetry 02:02:26

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To the House of the Sun: A Poem
Bone Antler Stone: Poems
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