We the Jury

Wayne Miller is the author of Post-, winner of the Rilke Prize and the Colorado Book Award; The City, Our City, shortlisted for the Rilke Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award; The Book of Props, named a best poetry book of the year by Coldfront Magazine and the Kansas City Star; and Only the Senses Sleep, winner of the William Rockhill Nelson Award. He has received the George Bogin Memorial Award, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, the Lyric Poetry Award, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Bess Hokin Prize, and a Fulbright Distinguished Scholarship to the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast. He is cotranslator of two books by the Albanian writer Moikom Zeqo-most recently Zodiac, which was shortlisted for the PEN Center USA Award in Translation-and coeditor of three books: Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master, and New European Poets. He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver, co-directs the Unsung Masters Series, and serves as editor/managing editor of Copper Nickel.

Contents

The News
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On Progress
The American Middle Class
After the Miscarriage
Ohio, My Friends Are Dying
Little Domestic Elegies
Love Poem
Generational
Carillon
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Two Thousand and Nine
Stages on a Journey Westward
Meeting the Board
The Lens
Middle Age
The Future
Song from the Back of the House
The Rapture: A Sermon
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Parable of Childhood
Notes: History
Rain Study
Middle Age
Two Sisters
Mind-Body Problem
The Invention of the Afterlife
From the Afterlife of the Rich
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On History
We the Jury
Armistice
The Reenactment
An American Abroad
The Narcissist
At Today's Auschwitz
The Humanist