Untitled (1920), Jay Van Everen

Four Essays from On: The New Art of the Essay

On Sondheim in South Dakota (2023)

Mixed-media collage on 90 lb. index paper

(Ink, index card cut-outs, menu excerpt, fabric clips, playbill excerpts…)

8.5” by 11”

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On Winning a Well-Deserved Award (2023)

Mixed-media collage on 90 lb. index paper

(Ink, marker Olivetti typed text, decal snippets, sticky notes, music staff, earplug instruction clip…)

8.5” by 11”

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On a Cupboard Infestation of Inappropriate Mentors (2025)

Mixed-media collage on 90 lb. index paper

(Ink, Olivetti typed text, various origami papers, cigar band snippet, wishbone photograph…)

8.5” by 11”

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On the Aromatic Spaciousness Granted by the Rejection of Labels (2025)

Mixed-media collage on 90 lb. index paper

(Ink, Olivetti typed text, butcher shop number pull,

product box clips, ribbon, crepe paper, various origami papers…)

8.5” by 11”

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BEN MILLER'S  latest book—Pandemonium Logs (Rutgers University Press)—received the 2025 Balcones Prize for Nonfiction. His first book—River Bend Chronicle (Lookout Books)—was short-listed for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

Miller’s writing has been anthologized in Best American Essays and Best American Experimental Writing, and appeared in a wide variety of journals, including The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Salmagundi and One Story. 

His awards include fellowships from the NEA and the Radcliffe Institute, and grants from the South Dakota Arts Council and the Schlesinger Library. 

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