Jane Miller (poet)

Jane Miller was born in New York and lives in Tucson, Arizona. She served as a professor for many years in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona—including a stint as its Director—and is currently Visiting Poet at The University of Texas Michener Center in Austin. She has published ten volumes of poetry of which The Greater Leisures was a National Poetry Series selection. Who Is Trixie the Trasher? and Other Questions (Copper Canyon Press, 2018) is her most recent book of poems.

Her numerous awards include a Western States Book Award, a Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Award, a Guggenheim fellowship and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

• National Poetry Series Selection for The Greater Leisures
• Western States Book Award for August Zero
• Two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships
• Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Award
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
• Audre Lorde Award

• Who Is Trixie the Trasher? and Other Questions. Copper Canyon Press. 2018. ISBN 978-1-55659-540-0.
• "Life's Ironies," poets.org, 2014 Archived 2014-07-01 at the Wayback Machine
• Thunderbird. Copper Canyon Press. July 1, 2013. ISBN 978-1-55659-441-0.
• A Palace of Pearls. Copper Canyon Press. April 1, 2005. ISBN 978-1-55659-222-5.
• Wherever You Lay Your Head. Copper Canyon Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-55659-128-0.
• Memory at These Speeds; New and Selected Poems. Copper Canyon Press. 1996. ISBN 978-1-55659-118-1.
• August Zero. Copper Canyon Press. 1993. ISBN 978-1-55659-060-3.
• American Odalisque. Copper Canyon Press. November 1987. ISBN 978-1-55659-008-5.
• The Great Leisures (National Poetry Series). Doubleday. 1983. ISBN 978-0385184144.
• Black Holes Black Stockings
• Many Junipers. Copper Beech Press. 1980. ISBN 978-0-914278-29-0.
• Heartbeats

• Susan Aizenberg; Erin Belieu; Jeremy Countryman, eds. (2001). "Giants". The extraordinary tide: new poetry by American women. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11963-4.

• Seven Mediterraneans

• Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel. University of Michigan Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-472-06480-9.
• Albert Gelpi, ed. (1993). "From "Working Time"". Denise Levertov: selected criticism. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06416-8.
• "Sea Level." Martin Lammon, ed. (1996). Written in water, written in stone: twenty years of Poets on poetry. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06634-6.

• "Scene", Ploughshares, Spring 1979
• "Without a Name for This", Ploughshares, Spring 1979
• "A Dream of Broken Glass ", Ploughshares, Spring 1979
• "Eavesdropping at the Swim Club, 1934 ", Ploughshares, Spring 1979
• "Blanks for New Things", Ploughshares, Winter 1990-91
• "Warrior", Ploughshares, Winter 1990-91
• "The General's Briefing", Ploughshares, Winter 1991-92
• "Parts of Speech", Ploughshares, Spring 1996
• "Humility", Ploughshares, Winter 2001-2