Susan Cummins Miller: Poetry
Roberts Mountains, NV (S.C. Miller)
Making Silent Stones Sing also was named a 2023 Spur Award-Poetry Finalist by Western Writers of America and Finalist for the 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards in Poetry (AZ). You can order the chapbook at online retailers such as Amazon and Barnes&Noble, and from any brick-and-mortar store. Or you can order the chapbook directly from Finishing Line Press.
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Taped Interviews and Readings:
On Thursday, April 18, and Saturday, April 20, 2024, Mark McLemore’s NPR broadcast "Arizona Spotlight" features a reading from my poetry chapbook, Making Silent Stones Sing. The program will be archived on the "Arizona Spotlight" website, https://radio.azpm.org/arizonaspotlight/.
Wednesday, April 23, 2024. In honor of National Poetry Month, my poetry will be featured on the Gyroscope Review website [www.gyroscopereview.com]
Thursday, April 25. "Angles of Reflection: a GeoPoetic Journey." I will be reading my poems during a Zoom presentation for UU-Detroit's Poetry Vespers at 7 p.m EDT. Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/99979852182?pwd=SW5ueTQyMnQxbjgwWVR1NWJ1QUJnUT09
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A sample of recent or forthcoming journal publications:
The Blue Guitar Magazine Fall 2023, a publication of the Arizona Consortium for the Arts, published six of my recent poems. [http://www.theblueguitarmagazine.org/]
Slipstream issue 43 included "La sin Nombre."
Gyroscope Review, Summer Issue, included "The News the Rocks Know." https://www.gyroscopereview.com/
The Comstock Review published "Wonder, Entwined (Ars Poetica)" in the Summer/Fall 2022 issue of the journal.
New York Quarterly has accepted a poem for their anthology, Without a Doubt: poems on faith. The anthology will be released at some point in 2023/2024.
Two prose poems in the Moving Force Journal.
Kithe Fall/Winter 2021 issue.
Impermanent Earth [http://impermanentearth.com]
Blue Guitar Magazine [http://www.theblueguitarmagazine.org/]
Iris Literary Journal (Assure Press; delayed from Fall 2020) [https://assurepress.org/]
Cathexis Northwest Press [June 2021]
The Closed Eye Open/Maya's Micros [https://theclosedeyeopen.com/mayas-micros-ed-9/]
Wild Roof Journal [wildroofjournal.com]
The Write Launch.
Gyroscope Review: https://www.gyroscopereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GR-Issue-21-4-Fall-L.pdf
Unstrung [http://www.artizona.org/UNSTRUNGsummer2020/UNSTRUNGsummer2020.pdf] (you'll find my contributions on p. 27-34);
The Write Launch [https://thewritelaunch.com/2020/07/making-silent-stones-speak-cracking-the-code-and-when-jeannette-macdonald-reigned-in-the-kitchen/]
Darkhouse Books' What We Talk about When We Talk about It: Variations on the Theme of Love I, II (available on Amazon).
Poets Choice: Climate Change (anthology),
Tempered Runes Press: Bluing the Blade.
Deciphering the Desert: a book of poems released by Finishing Line Press in 2023 has been named a 2024 Winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Silver Award (Western Written Poetry). The book is available Amazon, Barnes&Noble, and at Finishing Line Press. The book may also be ordered from any brick-and-mortar store.
Women Writing the West has selected Making Silent Stones Sing: poems as a Finalist for the 2023 WILLA Literary Award in Poetry.
