Claire Millikin

Poet

Owls Head, ME
Maine US

Author's Bio

I am a poet and scholar, publishing poetry as Claire Millikin, and scholarship as Claire Raymond. I teach Art History at the University of Maine and for the Institute in Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. My poetry contends with issues of homelessness, exile, and displacement. I am based in coastal Maine. 

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Transitional Objects (Unicorn Press, 2022)
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Dolls (2Leaf Press, 2021)
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Enough! Poems of Protest and Resistance (Editor) (Littoral Books, 2020)
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Ransom Street (2Leaf Press, 2019)
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State Fair Animals (Unicorn Press, 2018)
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Substance of Fire: Gender and Race in the College Classroom (2Leaf Press, 2018)
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Tartessos and Other Cities (2Leaf Press, 2016)
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Television (Unicorn Press, 2016)
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After Houses: Poetry for the Homeless (2Leaf Press, 2014)
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Motels Where We Lived (Unicorn Press, 2014)
Chapbooks:
Museum of Snow (Grayson Books, 2013)
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The Gleaners (Tiger's Eye Press, 2013)
Prizes won: 

Poetry Book Award for the North American Writers and Publishers, Poetry Society of Virginia, semi-finalist for Dolls (2Leaf Press, 2021); Maine Literary Award First Prize for Enough! Poems of Protest and Resistance (Littoral Books 2021); Maine Literary Award Finalist (2019) for State Fair Animals (Unicorn Press); CALYX Lois Cranston Prize, First Prize (2015) for "Atlantic." 2015 Maine Literary Award Finalist for Poetry for Motels Where We Lived (Unicorn Press); 2017 Maine Literary Award for Poetry, Finalist for Television (Unicorn Press); 2018 California State Poetry Prize, Honorable Mention, for "How To Build a Mirror"

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Raymond Chandler, Patrick Modiano, and Emily Dickinson, Garth Stein
What I'm reading now: 
How to Live Together by Roland Barthes, One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson, And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge, Body Leaping Backward by Maureen Stanton , The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Feminist
Prefers to work with: 
Children
Fluent in: 
English
Raised in: 
GA
Georgia
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Last update: Jul 21, 2022