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Author Joe Mills returns to Wonderland, Friday, May 29, 2026, 10:15 am-12:00 pmQuail Ridge Books
4209-100 Lassiter Mill Rd., Raleigh
Come see Joe Mills at Wonderland Book Club. This free public event is co-sponsored by the NC Writers’ Network. We start at 10:15 a.m. (Quail Ridge Books opens at 10 a.m.) and will end by noon with a group photo (be sure to stick around for that!). His book, The Holiday Cycle, is available for purchase at Quail Ridge Books. We will meet UPSTAIRS.
All Wonderland news is available at the Wonderland Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/WonderlandBookClub. We'll continue to send two monthly NCWN/Wonderland Book Club emails. Please RSVP on the Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/WonderlandBookClub so Quail Ridge has a good count.
Please invite your friends to come to this meeting. It's free and they don't have to be a member of the NC Writers' Network or Wonderland Book Club to join us—we welcome all interested folks!
About the Book: The Holiday Cycle
The Holiday Cycle is a poetry collection that considers our relationship with the holidays (from New Year’s Eve to National Margarita Day) and with time.
Joe Mills is the bard of epiphany: the ongoing, often imperceptible, even overlooked, glorious and mundane rote offices of the living. In his latest volume, The Holiday Cycle, he delivers one remarkable poem after another as he has over the years since his marvelous debut collection. Mills sees through the gauze in which each day shrouds: ritual and commemoration, superstition and regret, love and thwarted love. He “[loads] every rift with ore” in precise language sonically pitched to illuminate: “how joy can arrive unexpectedly, / how pleasure has its dangers, how love can be difficult / to forecast, its accumulation clear only in retrospect.” A beautiful, poignant book.
--Joseph Bathanti
North Carolina Poet Laureate & author of Land of Amnesia
In this almanac of poems, Joseph Mills celebrates the high points of a year, with family and friends, each day enhanced by memory and associations. The reader feels privileged to share a poetic calendar ranging from sonnets to pantoum to
longer narratives and meditations, spoken in an irresistible voice, often with humor, sometimes elegiac, confessional, with moments of epiphany, always with love.
—Robert Morgan, author of Dark Energy
About the Author: Joe Mills:
A faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Joseph Mills holds an endowed chair, the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities, and has been honored with a UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has published eight volumes of poetry, most recently The Holiday Cycle. His collection This Miraculous Turning was awarded the North Carolina Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry for its exploration of race and family. In the spring of 2027, Press 53 will publish his New and Selected Poems. More information is available at www.josephrobertmills.com.
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Quail Ridge Books, 4209 Lassiter Mill Road Suite 100,Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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