The Invisible Ladder

Michael Miller’s first book, The Joyful Dark, was the Editor’s Choice winner of The McGovern Prize at Ashland Poetry Press. His third book, Darkening the Grass, was a “Must Read” selection of The Massachusetts Book Award (2013). His poem “The Different War” was the 2014 First Prize Winner of the W.B. Years Society Poetry Award and was anthologized in Yeats 150 (Lilliput Press, Dublin). His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, the Sewanee Review, The New Republic, The American Scholar, Ontario Review, The Southern Review, Commonweal, Raritan, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and other journals and anthologies. Born in 1940, Michael Miller served four years in the Marine Corps. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Paperback: 90 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (February 13, 2026)