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Ellen Miller-Mack

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Ellen Miller-Mack has an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in 5 A.M., Valparaiso Poetry Review, Rattle, Verse Wisconsin and Bookslut. She co-wrote The Real Cost of Prisons Comix (PM Press) and is a nurse practitioner/primary care provider at a community health center in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss

  • Ellen Miller-Mack
  • October 7, 2015
Ellen Miller-Mack reviews Diane Seuss's Four-Legged Girl today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Meridian by Kathleen Jesme

  • Ellen Miller-Mack
  • January 22, 2014
Ellen Miller-Mack reviews Kathleen Jesme's Meridian today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy

  • Ellen Miller-Mack
  • August 23, 2013
Ellen MIller-mack reviews Carol Ann Duffy's Rapture today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva

  • Ellen Miller-Mack
  • February 13, 2013
Dark Elderberry Branch is a collaboration between two living poets and one who is dead but fully present. Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa (former Soviet Union, in the Ukraine),…
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Voices of the Rainbow: Contemporary Poetry by Native Americans

  • Ellen Miller-Mack
  • May 9, 2012
Visiting the Taos Pueblo (“an ancient community continuously inhabited for 100 years”) on San Geronimo Day, I was frightened by the Sacred Clowns (Koshares). The list of rules for visitors…
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Met a Lunatic on Craigslist

  • Ellen Miller-Mack
  • April 6, 2012
But even here, vertigo and ambivalence dominate, and I find myself searching the poems for the kinetic energy of a walker in the city; heel marks and muddy droplets. I…
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