Martha Deed

Millie Niss draws from so many different poetic influences and writes in so many different tones – wistful, sneaky, sincere, outraged, outrageous, sweet and funny and snide – that it makes me nearly dizzy. This is a wonderful, whimsical compendium of a mind on fire, devoted to poetry, mad for malarkey. In rants, e-mails, poetic forms, collaborations, school notebooks, mock epics, found text, imitations, concrete poetry and intercepted letters, Millie calls it like it is and we are so lucky for it! —Kazim Ali