Category: These Saints are Stones
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Megan Eralie-Henriques interviews Millie Tullis about “These Saints are Stones” for The Turning Leaflets
I love that you started with obsessions. As a kid, I did not walk through Pinto Cemetery thinking, “I’m going to come back to this.” But something about that memory and that moment did stick with me. It’s interesting—our obsessions as writers, what grabs and won’t let go. Memories and…
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Katie Ludlow Rich interviews Millie Tullis on “These Saints are Stones” for Exponent II Blog
I came away from this book genuinely moved, and genuinely changed in how I think about what it means to recover a woman’s life from the historical record, or to acknowledge, with honesty, that some recoveries are simply not possible. Millie’s willingness to let the gaps remain gaps, to make…
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“These Saints are Stones” featured on AML’s Blog
This first “Martha Dreams” poem surprised and haunted me; it pulled me to keep writing. I wrote more dreams for my ancestors and placed them in the book alongside more research-rooted poems and personal poems. In two poems titled “Reenactment,” I described participating in Trek as a teenager. I wore…
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“Pinto Cemetery” Featured on Poetry Daily
It is not a ghost town.There is no town.It’s a place.There is a sign and a road. “Pinto Cemetery” was featured on Poetry Daily, March 2, 2026! You can also read about the poem’s origins in my essay for What Sparks Poetry: Object Lessons: As a child, I spent a…
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“These Saints are Stones” reviewed in Trampoline
The first book review is here forThese Saints are Stones! Justin Lacour reviewed the book for Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry. Lacour writes: In her debut collection of poems, These Saints are Stones, Millie Tullis observes “Mormons have no saints/save the pioneers.” In a similar vein, an epigraph to the…
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