Miller Wolf Oberman
Miller Wolf Oberman is a former Ruth Lilly Fellow as well as a 2016 winner of the 92nd St Y’s Boston Review/ . His translation of selections from the “Old English Rune Poem” won Poetry’s in 2013. Miller's first book "The Unstill Ones," a collection of poems and Old English translations was published in September 2017 by Princeton University Press.[1] He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, rock singer Louisa Rachel Solomon of The Shondes, and holds a PhD in English from the University of Connecticut.
Awards[]
Discovery/Boston Review Prize, 2016.[2]
AWP Intro Award Journals Project, 2014 Honorable Mention for “Lies After the War.”[3]
John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation, 2013, awarded by Poetry Magazine for the “Old English Rune Poem.”[4]
The Wallace Stevens Student Poetry Prize, 2014.[5]
Finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, 2012.[6]
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: “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: “Silentium” 2016.
Tin House: “Wulf and Eadwacer” and “Tension” Winter 2016/17.
The Nation: “Lies After the War,” forthcoming, 2016.
Broadsided Press: “Morning Pastoral,” forthcoming, 2016.
Boston Review: “Wolf Brother,” summer 2016.
Fourteen Hills: “The Smokewood Tree,” summer, 2016.
Poetry Magazine: translation of “The Woman Who Cannot,” July/August, 2016.
: “The Grave,” March, 2016, and “The Ruin” and “Dear Lengthening Day” June, 2016.
Beloit Poetry Journal: “Who People Are,” winter 2015-2016.
: “Who People Are,” February 25, 2016.[7]
Poetry Magazine: “On Trans,” March, 2015.
Poetry Magazine: translation from the “Old English Rune Poem,” June, 2013.
Rattle: “Ears” Summer, 2010.[8]
Realpoetik: “Myron,” “To Keep the House Quiet,” “Eighth Nerve” and “Daybreak,” April, 2008.
The Minnesota Review: “Dixie Paint,” Winter, 2006.
Bloom Magazine: “After the Demolition Derby,” Fall, 2005.
References[]
- ^ "English Ph.D. Student Finds Beauty in 'The Ruin' - UConn Today". UConn Today. 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
- ^ "Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest - Unterberg Poetry Center - Tisch Center for the Arts - 92nd Street Y - New York, NY". www.92y.org. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
- ^ "AWP: Intro Journals Project Winners". www.awpwriter.org. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
- ^ "Miller Oberman". www.poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
- ^ "Congratulations to the 2014 Student Poetry Prize winners! | The Wallace Stevens Poetry Program". Retrieved 2016-06-29.
- ^ "Montreal Prize Long List for Poetry 2012" (PDF).
- ^ "Poetry Daily's Featured Poet: Miller Oberman". poems.com. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
- ^ ""Ears" by Miller Oberman". 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
- Living people
- American male poets
- Poets from New York (state)
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American male writers