Arts for the 21st Century

Nancy Anne Miller

Nancy Anne Miller

Nancy Anne Miller is a Bermudian poet with twelve collections. Her latest is Selected Poems (Valley Press UK, 2024), and Missing Hurricanes is forthcoming (Valley Press UK, 2025). She has been published in journals such as Edinburgh Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Salzburg Review, Agenda, Magma, The Fiddlehead, The Caribbean Writer, and PREE. She has an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow, is a MacDowell Fellow and a Bermuda Arts Council Grant recipient.

Descended

He is descended from slave owners. The Bermuda National Museum records show the names of slaves: Sussanah, Alice, Jonathan, domestic, washer, joiner, 39,

Shocked

Like a cobra springing to bite the back, devour flesh, rip it open, the line of the whip curls and reneges, falls to the ground, before striking again. What might one ask was

Scramble

Just like the Scrabble game of wit and chance, there was a scramble for Africa. When alphabeted names begin to dominate a land. All dependent on a knowledge