Tyler Mills, photo courtesy of the artist.
You are invited to an evening celebrating the next generation of storytellers, bards and troubadours as part of our Literary Cabaret series, featuring the Early Career Writers of Poetry's Residency at Banff Centre.
This showcase brings together original works from resident poets, sharing verse that range from tales of urban malaise to queering marriage. The event will feature short readings and reflections on works-in-progress, offering a glimpse into creative process, voice, and lyricism craft across their poetry and lyrical narrative prose.
Acclaimed writer and faculty mentor Tyler Mills will host the evening and share from her own celebrated work.
Tyler Mills brings a deep commitment to craft, poetic inquiry, and teaching. Her work moves between poetry, essay, memoir, and pedagogy, offering audiences a host whose practice is rooted in both artistic excellence and the generative possibilities of writing as a lifelong studio practice.
Discover bold new voices shaping the future of poetry. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. in CLVB '33, with things kicking off at 7 p.m. Stay after to mingle with writers and faculty until 9:30 p.m.
Admission is free. Don’t miss this inspiring night of creativity, community, and verse! Event and audience may be captured on film.
About Tyler Mills
Tyler Mills
Dr.Tyler Mills is the author of the memoir The Bomb Cloud (Unbound Edition Press 2024), which received a Literature Grant from the Café Royal Foundation NYC. Her poetry guidebook, Poetry Studio: Prompts for Poets, a pedagogical book for new and experienced poets, appeared in June 2024 from the University of Akron Press. A poet and essayist, Tyler’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, the Kenyon Review, The Believer, and Poetry, Lit Hub, River Teeth, The Rumpus, and more. She is the author of the poetry books City Scattered (2022), Hawk Parable (2019), Tongue Lyre (2013), and co-author with Kendra DeColo of Low Budget Movie (2021). She has a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois-Chicago, teaches for Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute, and lives in New York City.