Miller Oberman, Poet

Impossible Things

Miller Oberman is the author of Impossible Things, forthcoming from Duke University Press, 2024 and The Unstill Ones, Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 2017. His awards include a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the 92Y Discovery Prize, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, and Poetry magazine’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Yorker, Poetry and Poem-a-Day. 

Miller Oberman is an editor at Broadsided Press which publishes visual-literary collaborations and he serves on the board of Brooklyn Poets. He teaches writing at Eugene Lang College at The New School. Miller is a trans Jewish anti-Zionist who lives with his family in Queens, New York.

Praise for Impossible Things

“In this compelling extended elegy, Miller Oberman captures both the possible and Impossible Things of a young child’s death and its effect on a family. I’ve been an admirer of Miller’s poetry since I first read ‘Joshua Was Gone,’ a masterful and devastating poem that embodies the heart and craft of this deeply moving book. Honoring both what’s missing and what remains, Impossible Things is a stunning book you will want to read, reread and keep close.”

- Ellen Bass, author of Indigo