Monthly Poetry Reading: Jamie Millen

About this event

Join Amesbury Poet Laureate Bryan Riley in welcoming this month's featured poets to the Amesbury Monthly Poetry Reading! Enjoy the incredible work of Jamie Millen in person.

When: Wednesday, November 11, 2026 | 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Where: The John Greenleaf Whittier Home, 86 Friend Street Amesbury, MA 01913 and on Zoom .

Jamie Millen, a resident of Lowell, Massachusetts, is a writer, poet, researcher, and writing/literature instructor at UMass Boston, and has been writing and studying literature for 16 years. In 2015, she self-published her first collection of poetry called City Hymns and Seashell Bones. Her academic research includes work on Modern American/British fiction and now, American Horror and Gothic fiction. Her research has led her to present at International and domestic conferences. These include, her essay: “A Risk That Must Be Run: On Substantive Modes of Emptiness and the Creative Process in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse” and has presented her research on the Virginia Woolf Society panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Studies Since 1900, and the 30th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference. In addition, she has also presented her research essay "Architecture of Consciousness: Edith Wharton’s House of Fiction & Libraries in The Age of Innocence at Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association in Las Vegas, NV. Her most recent conference presentation in 2025 was on Joe Hill’s novel NOS4A2 was titled: ‘I Need My Ride:’ Intersubjective Inscapes, Gothic Objects, and Cruel Optimism in Joe Hill’s NOS4A2 ,” at the International Conference of the Fantastic Arts. In addition to poetry and literary criticism, her creative non-fiction essay “Looking, Listening, and Noticing: The Slow, Deliberate Rebellion of Studying Literature” was published in the Roadrunner Review: The Creative Writing Journal of Metropolitan State University of Denver.