Sou MacMillan is a musician and writer who thinks of poetry as a much underestimated form of music. She believes strongly in the spirituality of
art, and considers performance po8ry to be the canvas for the fusion of the body and the things we can't always see or touch.

Her new book, Shallow Empire (Lethe Press), is the next logical step after a series of chapbook publications from Doublebunny Press. She has been published in numerous anthologies, including the 1995 Bottomdog Coffeehouse Poetry Anthology and Manic D Press's, Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry, as well as publication in 2X4, Poetry Fly, and The Boston Poet.

She has competed on four National Poetry Slam teams for Worcester, MA, including the championship finalist team in 1997 at CT, and has completed two novels, the most recent, Chrysanthemum, currently being serialized on GotPoetry.com. She has her BA in Russian Literature from Ohio State University. Sou lives in Worcester with her husband and son, where she plays in an acoustic band called Daily Mouse.

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• Arc
• Echo
• Girlfriend
• Girlfriend - MP3 (explicit)
• mp3s for Michael Revisited and Ohio Sonnet up at Myspace.com

Sou MacMillan interviewed at GetUnderground.com

Praise for Shallow Empire

In these poems, Sou MacMillan scribes an empire as open as a freeway, as vulnerable as a heartbeat, as promising as an open door, inevitable as a meadow's overgrowth. They'll capture and transport you like a favorite song playing on someone else's car radio as it drives down the street, leaving you on the sidewalk grinning remember when, forgetting your keys to the now are in your hand. She's what you meant to say, what you might have forgotten was so powerful.
- Daphne Gottlieb
Author of Why Things Burn, and editor of the much-acclaimed Softskull anthology, Homewrecker

Sou MacMillian has tapped into the current that blazes through language and crafted work that is unapologetic and fiercely lyrical. With their unerring visuals and stark narrative, the poems in Shallow Empire are like snippets of cinema-lush, startling and ultimately unforgettable.
- Patricia Smith
Author of Life According to Motown, Big Towns, Big Talk, & Close to Death, four-time individual National Poetry Slam Champion

More than any poet I know, Sou roars in whispers.  Her haunting poetry reveals the profundity of mundane experiences, reminding readers that lyricism can be found in cigarette stains and unfinished letters that are often more complete than the relationships they implicate. Sou’s words remind me that an errant echo is simply a reminder that some proclamation has lost its path.  Finally, after conquering the world of performance poetry, Sou’s lush whispers have been awarded the monument of ink and paper they so richly deserve.
- Ragan Fox
Author of Heterophobia, host of Fox and the City podcast

Gigs

July 2006

Sunday March 11, 2007 - Poets' Asylum at Java Hut - 1073A Main St. (Webster Square), Worcester, MA
book release party for Chrysanthemum
feature to follow open mic - www.poetsasylum.org

Tuesday March 13, 2007 - GotPoetryLIVE at Reflections Cafe - 8 Governor St. (corner of Governor & Wickenden), Providence, RI
book release party for Chrysanthemum & 1st year anniversary for the reading series!
feature to follow open mic - www.gotpoetry.com

Chrysanthemum - read the serial novel at GotPoetry.com