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Editorial

With my experience as a reader for various journals and presses, including the Los Angeles Review, Ruminate, Poetry International, Cider Press Review, Locked Horn Press, and Orison Books, I understand what it takes for your work to get plucked from the slush pile and published. My work has won the Orison Poetry Prize and Rick Campbell Prize (from Anhinga Press), and has been a finalist for Black Lawrence’s Black River Chapbook Competition, Autumn House Rising Writer Contest, Shelterbelt Poetry Prize, and Meridian’s Editors’ Choice contest.

I’m happy to offer my feedback on full-length manuscripts, chapbook-length manuscripts, and individual packets of poetry. (And am happy to provide an eye for prose, too!)

Full-Length and Chapbook-Length Manuscripts
I’ll leave detailed notes on individual poems throughout the manuscript on the line level, form, title, etc. alongside feedback around the book’s structure/order, which you’ll receive on the file itself and in letter form. We can also schedule a conversation on Zoom, email, or phone to answer any follow-up questions or work through any clarifications.

Individual Poems
I’ll offer my suggestions via track changes, comments, and longer summaries in Microsoft Word alongside a list of reading recommendations and potential homes for the work.

Workshops

Teaching as part of The Writer’s Foundry at St. Joseph’s University has been one of the greatest joys of my poetic life, where I’ve developed workshops that cover a day to five weeks to a whole semester. I’m also a proud alumni of the Tin House Writers Workshops, Juniper Summer Writers’ Institute, and the New York Summer Writers’ Institute, and was the director of the Adroit Mentorship Program from 2017-2019.

I’ve developed syllabi around obsession/attention (per long poems), time and timelessness, animals in poetry, and allusion, but am happy to offer other workshops that meet you and/or your groups’ needs!

Ready to Get in Touch?

Please email thecarlymiller[at]gmail.com with the subject line “Editorial on Poems,” “Editorial on Poetry Manuscript,” or “Workshop Inquiry.”

And if you’re concerned about price, we can figure out a payment schedule that works around your budget.