Joseph Millar
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. Life. Millar received a BA degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 and an MA degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1970. 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", "Poetry International", and "Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, New Letters, Raleigh Review and Shenandoah". He has taught at Mount Hood Community College, Oregon State University. 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.