Poetry Reading with Millie Tullis: "These Saints are Stones"
Schedule
Thu, 30 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
734 Harden St., Columbia, SC, United States, South Carolina 29205 | Columbia, SC
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Join us for a reading with Millie Tullis to celebrate her new collection of poetry, These Saints are Stones. Tullis will also be accompanied by local poet Evelyn Berry.In Millie Tullis’ new poetry collection, These Saints are Stones, a faithless daughter is haunted by her third-great-grandmother, Martha, a woman who married her stepfather at sixteen and became a sister-wife to her own mother. Tullis cannot stop uncovering details about Martha, who left no written history behind, and her silence permeates this collection, which is rife with gaps and fragments, scraps of memory that blend with dreams. Sparse and spare, these poems echo the red desert landscape where the speaker’s ancestors lived and died, where she hunts for graves among the rocks and confronts a past she can never fully know. After all, like a sampling of lace, the cloth of women’s history is more hole than thread.
Millie Tullis is a poet, editor, and researcher from northern Utah. She holds an MFA from George Mason University and an MA in American Studies & Folklore from Utah State University. Her poetry has been published in Dialogist, Sugar House Review, Cimarron Review, Dialogue, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. Her digital micro-chapbook, Dream With Teeth, was published by Ghost City Press in 2023. Her research has won awards from the Utah Historical Society, the Folklore Society of Utah, and the American Folklore Society. She is the editor-in-chief of Psaltery & Lyre and Exponent II. Find more at millietullis.com.
Evelyn Berry (she/her) is the author of Grief Slut (Sundress Publications, 2024) and chapbooks T4T (Small Harbor Publishing, 2026) and Buggery (Bateau Press, 2020). She is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship and South Carolina Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship for Poetry. She is the winner of the BOOM Chapbook Prize, Button Poetry Short Form Contest, Dr. Linda Veldheer Memorial Prize, KAKALAK Poetry Prize, Emrys Poetry Prize, Broad River Prize for Prose, and other honors.
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