Denise MillerDenise Miller is a Kalamazoo Valley Community College instructor, artist, poet, and community activist. A 2015 Hedgebrook Fellow, Miller was a co-founder of Fire, an arts and culture nonprofit in Kalamazoo. Core is Miller's full length poetry collecton based on the true stories of African American sharecroppers of the Great Migration who journeyed North in search of the American Dream only to find hardships of a different kind. The poems chronicle the odyssey from a Mississippi plantation to an Ohio Valley coal mine to an iron foundry in Saginaw, Michigan. Other publications include poems in Dunes Review; Michigan Writers Corner; Terror and Transformation Anthology, Wising Up Press; Just Like A Girl Anthology, GirlChild Press; African American Review; american ghost: poets on life after industry from Stockport Flats Press; and BLACKBERRY: a magazine. Read More Read Less