Miller Wolf Oberman

Miller Wolf Oberman is a former Ruth Lilly Fellow as well as a 2016 winner of the 92nd St Y’s Boston Review/ Discovery Prize. His translation of selections from the “Old English Rune Poem” won Poetry’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize For Translation in 2013. Miller's first book "The Unstill Ones," a collection of poems and Old English translations was published in September 2017 by Princeton University Press.[1] He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, rock singer Louisa Rachel Solomon of The Shondes, and holds a PhD in English from the University of Connecticut.

Awards

Discovery/Boston Review Prize, 2016.[2]

AWP Intro Award Journals Project, 2014 Honorable Mention for “Lies After the War.”[3]

John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation, 2013, awarded by Poetry Magazine for the “Old English Rune Poem.”[4]

The Wallace Stevens Student Poetry Prize, 2014.[5]

Finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, 2012.[6]

Winner of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2009.

Winner of The Academy of American Poets University Prize, 2006.

Recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, 2005.

Recipient of the Flannery O'Connor Fellowship, 2004-2005.

Winner of the Sarah Lawrence College Andrea K. Willison Poetry Prize, 2000.

Selected publications

Harvard Review: “From Old English Rune Poem,” “The Ruin,” “Caedmon’s Hymn,” “Riddle 63” and “Riddle 94,” forthcoming.

Southeast Review: “He Was Restless,” summer 2016.

The Minnesota Review: “Silentium” 2016.

Tin House: “Wulf and Eadwacer” and “Tension” Winter 2016/17.

The Nation: “Lies After the War,” forthcoming, 2016.

Broadsided Press: “Morning Pastoral,” forthcoming, 2016.

Boston Review: “Wolf Brother,” summer 2016.

Fourteen Hills: “The Smokewood Tree,” summer, 2016.

Poetry Magazine: translation of “The Woman Who Cannot,” July/August, 2016.

berfrois: “The Grave,” March, 2016, and “The Ruin” and “Dear Lengthening Day” June, 2016.

Beloit Poetry Journal: “Who People Are,” winter 2015-2016.

Poetry Daily: “Who People Are,” February 25, 2016.[7]

Poetry Magazine: “On Trans,” March, 2015.

Poetry Magazine: translation from the “Old English Rune Poem,” June, 2013.

Rattle: “Ears” Summer, 2010.[8]

Realpoetik: “Myron,” “To Keep the House Quiet,” “Eighth Nerve” and “Daybreak,” April, 2008.

The Minnesota Review: “Dixie Paint,” Winter, 2006.

Bloom Magazine: “After the Demolition Derby,” Fall, 2005.

References
  1. "English Ph.D. Student Finds Beauty in 'The Ruin' - UConn Today". UConn Today. 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  2. "Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest - Unterberg Poetry Center - Tisch Center for the Arts - 92nd Street Y - New York, NY". www.92y.org. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  3. "AWP: Intro Journals Project Winners". www.awpwriter.org. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  4. "Miller Oberman". www.poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  5. "Congratulations to the 2014 Student Poetry Prize winners! | The Wallace Stevens Poetry Program". Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  6. "Montreal Prize Long List for Poetry 2012" (PDF).
  7. "Poetry Daily's Featured Poet: Miller Oberman". poems.com. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  8. ""Ears" by Miller Oberman". 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
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