Joseph Millar is an American poet whose plainspoken, working-class verse honors manual labor, masculine tenderness, and the landscapes of the American West. Before turning to poetry, he spent years working in commercial fishing, telecom installation, and other trades. His collections include Overtime (Eastern Washington University Press, 2001), Fortune (Eastern Washington University Press, 2007), Blue Rust (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012), and Overtime: Selected Poems (Carnegie Mellon, 2020). His work extends the tradition of Philip Levine with sensory precision and emotional directness. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.