Holocaust – Tim Miller

22 Nov 202121 Nov 2021Tim Miller

Lee Harvey Oswald (podcast)

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29 Sep 202128 Sep 2021Tim Miller

Poems: Unfinished Michelangelo (podcast)

20 Sep 202119 Sep 2021Tim Miller

2 Poems for the Holocaust (podcast)

15 Feb 20219 Aug 2021Tim Miller

Two New Poems at The Jewish Journal

Many thanks to David Suissa at The Jewish Journal, for publishing my poems “Train,” and “A Ploughed Field.” Those who have read Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz, or seen Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah will probably recognize where these poems come from. Two other poems will be appearing at The Jewish Journal in the next week or […]

16 Jun 201910 Aug 2021Tim Miller

Primo Levi’s Hardest Thoughts on the Holocaust

From Primo Levi’s 1986 book, The Drowned and the Saved, remembering the concentration camps: On Levi’s own—and others’—guilt at having survived the concentration camps: At a distance of years one can today definitely affirm that the history of the Lagers [from Konzentrationslager, concentration camp] has been written almost exclusively by those who, like myself, never […]

16 Apr 201916 Apr 2019Tim Miller

“One day the Gestapo hanged a child”: God on Trial at Auschwitz

The oldest book about religion on my shelves is Karen Armstrong’s A History of God. The note inside still says that I read it in the fall of 1996, just after I turned seventeen. I’m lucky that I found Armstrong’s book so early for many reasons, but mostly for the following story she tells, which […]

22 Jan 20199 Aug 2021Tim Miller

Kafka’s Sisters & The Remains of Old Yeats (2 poems)

Kafka’s Sisters With thanks I was tubercular and dead by early summer nineteen twenty-four, long in the grave with my intensity before those three sisters rose to follow, Ellie and Ottla and Valli dragged through the cattle-car years down to forty-five. Ellie and Ottla and Valli I sing, deported to Poland, deported to Łódź or […]

31 May 20189 Aug 2021Tim Miller

Review of Hymns & Lamentations

Check out the poet Tom Laichas’s review, here, of my 2011 book Hymns and Lamentations, a collection poems on the unsolvable religious problems of suffering and joy. It’s an immensely generous and thorough look at the book, probably the best it’s gotten so far. You can still order the book here.