JMU - Poetry Reading by David Mills
David Mills - poet, playwright, and book reviewer- recently won a 2005-2006 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry. In 2003, he received a Chicago State University Langston Hughes Poetry Prize, and in 1993 he was the recipient of a BRIO award. The Julliard School of Drama commissioned and produced a play he wrote on Dr. Martin Luther King, and he was commissioned by Urban Stages Theater to write a play about Frederick Douglass. His poems have appeared in Nuyorican Aloud and Obsidian II, and his book reviews have been published in such periodicals as the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Village Voice, Rolling Stone and New York Post. His latest book, Dream Detective, is on the small press bestseller list.
