Essays on Poetry

Ralph J. Mills, Jr. is a significant figure in contemporary poetry for his work as a poet, critic, and professor. His poetry collections include Living with Distance, A Window in Air, and March Light, which received the Carl Sandburg Award. He also edited the selected prose and letters of Theodore Roethke. From 1962 to 1965 he served as Assistant Professor and Associate Chairman of The Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Michael Anania has won a number of awards for his writing, including the Friends of Literature Poetry Prize, a Best American Short Stories Award, Pushcart Prize in Poetry and Criticism, and arts council literary awards and fellowships in poetry, fiction and criticism. The Independent Booksellers Association named The Red Menace the best paperback book of the year.