Bryan Miller
As an ELA teacher and writing coach of 25 years, I enjoy helping students refine their voice and achieve their writing goals.
As a lifelong writer, I love exploring form and "invented" structure. I will occasionally post some of the writing prompts I've found fruitful and invite you to try them out!
Please feel free to peruse my work and leave a comment if you'd like.
Thanks for stopping by!
Published Work
"For the Kentucky State Fair Tour Guide, for Successfully Leading us
Through the Jungle Flume of Haints and Faint Creeping Terrors," "The Lexicographer," and "The Endeavor": TV-63 (poems, 2025)
"Neighborhood Watch": 3Elements
(poem, 2017)
"The Blooming": Clementine Unbound (poem, 2017)
"Pumpkins" and "For the Kentucky State Fair Tour Guide for Successfully Leading Us Through the Jungle Flume of Haints and Faint Creeping Terrors": Blinders Journal (poem, 2015)
"Fiction": Extracts: Poetry and Short Story Journal (now defunct--poem, 2013)
"The Disinterested, Bored, and Lonely": Strange Frenzies Anthology
(story, 2012)
"Regret Finds Us" (originally published in The Independent in their annual poetry contest, 2000)
Prompt of the Month
I used a writing "game" called "Paint Chip Poetry" to write the following poems.
To do so, I simply pulled 12 random "chips" or cards from the box. Each card has a creatively named "color" that I then had to use somewhere in the poem.
The kit provides a list of pre-made titles that you also choose at random. I made myself choose one of these first and did not alter its wording as I tried to let it inspire the poem after I picked 12 word/phrase "color" tiles.
Poem #1: "Big News"
Poem #2: "I Promise"
Poem #3: "In a Parallel Universe"
Poem #4: "Once Upon a Time"