Millie St. Waters

She’s a folk poet. A study in nonsense collage. You are at an open market. You stumble on her and her typewriter. What kind of poem do you ask for?

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Digital Download of 'Every Flower' Art piece

Testing, Testing, 1-2-3. Can ya hear me? COming to you live from the tin can on the other end of your string. Now, honey the refrigerator leaked so much we had to renovate the kitchen down to the particle board – ended up changing all the lightbulbs and fixing up the floor. This drafty old house, of course, could use it. what do you expect from the home of a couple a haunts like us? Still! I come…

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A Poem and a Week For Rituals

My week was a comedy of errors. I LEANED ON MY RITUALS. A LEAK IN OUR FRIDGE FLOODED THE FLOORS TWO DAYS BEFORE MY SON’S TONSIL SURGERY. A new fridge (no floors), a pediatric surgery, many plants, and many days of loud fans in my kitchen later, here I am with a poem for you. I think this is what I do best. I make time for a little art every day with my rituals. In prioritizing it, I made it…

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Transitions Towards the Art House

The past year, my work was affected by cyberstalking. Here are some lessons I learned and where I’m going next. This kind of unpleasantness never feels good to talk about, but it was a scary situation and I needed help. Thanks to everyone who lended a hand. I’m making a huge transitions to protect my work and create our Art House. Two things have made monetizing this project difficult: the…

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A Poem for Today's Art Practice

Here is a collage poem for your Thrusday.

We Need Women in Poetry This morning, like so many mornings, I am reflecting on an old draft of a poem. Too few women get to be poets. Too few mothers get to be artists at all. I am thinking about the abundance of female artists and poets in my life feeling very grateful. And very determined to give more of us a foothold into both. I have so many ideas on this, but I want you to know a few of…

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What Poetry Can Do for your Art Practice

An art practice gives life vibrance. It keeps us paying attention to the tiny details that become inspiration. It can keep us connected to a community of people who also look for wonder everywhere they go. Whatever your art looks like, then keep doing that. I have a case to make for poetry as a catalyst for other art mediums. Storytellers, especially – this one is for you. Poetry as a Memory My…

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Shadow and Light

We are so obsessed with the light – me included. You know I’m always trying to catch more of it. We see darkness as light’s enemy. As if they were at odds. As if they didn’t have each other by the tails. So I broke myself open just to what color I would bleed. I looked every piece of me over, the sharp parts cutting and bleeding but not deciding I am not a live. And as those shards realized…

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Someone tell my tongue...

Someone tell my tongue what the honey is made of....

Half born in the trenches digging my own grave.I kept going until I made lakes& lakes& lakes of water through my thumbs.Someone tell my tonguewhat the honey is made of.So she can step with beesabout what heathering is for.Take the fields of flowers & then give them to my buds.It’ll be like lush over leatherin my lungs.Like a hush on the world after all you know is l o u d. I’ll be honest, my…

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Why are you asking permission?

We were talking recently in the comments of @fuelkumari’s instagram post. It always seems like something profound is happening there. We were trying to find a word for a certain moment. The first time a woman realizes she is whole on her own. What is that moment? It’s so odd that we can have something in us without realizing it. We can start to make babies without our mind’s permission. We can…

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Lemon Yarrow

Cut the marrow of the salt sea and i bet you would find candlelight.

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The Dust

The Dust burns neon past you and all your fences. The fog in the mountains is stuck inside your mouth. All the wild you breathe it out and into me. People and their fences. http://instagram.com/millie.st.waters/

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Meaning Making Ritual

For me, keeping my creative flow going is like keeping a garden. I really have to tend it. Some seasons, art comes easily to me. It’s always in the air and all I gotta do is reach out and grab it. Other seasons, it isn’t easy. I feel peaceful in my own mundanity. But engaging in creativity helps me communicate with myself. So I have made it a practice. Almost every day, I find a way to do a small…

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Technical Changes

For a second I tried out Etsy and Patreon as places to sell my work. I am now moving everything to this little website to save time and money. Please be patient with me as I get it up and running. This will be a summer of logistics, but stick around for the Fall.

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A New Space for my Art Practice

Ohhh when was it, the fall of 2021? I was lucky enough to have a few reels hit over 100,000 views on instagram. I was so proud of my little page. Most of you coming from instagram don’t know that I am an SEO writer. On Instagram they know me as a poet or fantasy writer (if you’ve been following me a while). It was right around the time that I was featured in The New York Magazine. So, I jumped at…

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Art as a Practice

A few years ago, I got my yoga teacher certification with David and Augusta Kantra down in Fairhope. I went through that certification with my mom. I was 24. I had just lost most of my ovaries to tumors and I was trying to freeze my few remaining eggs. Hormonal treatments are so difficult on your body and mind. Gosh I was very young. Sometimes I meet a 24 year old and just put my hand over my…

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Criticism for Exhibitionist Healing

I’ve been knocking around social media writing for 13 years. I got an Instagram within a month of it coming out. I have seen it grow and change for more than a decade. I have particularly been watching the poetry community on Instagram about that long. I watched Rupi Kaur and Nayyirah Waheed rise and fall. I’ve seen sad boi poets like Atticus create brand new spaces in feminist humor. These…

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Shop and Services

Tap Tap Tintype Art House Maternity Leave Picture me in bright pink overalls running (never walking) around Lowe Mill with rolls of Hagaki paper under my arm, a baby in a sling, and a three-year-old in a stroller. This is life as a working mother in a childcare shortage. I am not alone. The pandemic strained the childcare industry to busting and, on top of that, Huntsville, Alabama is growing…

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You Are at an Open Market

I live in Huntsville, Al where the artists are centralized. I love it. Everywhere you go, an open market that needs vendors like me. I have met so many extraordinary people in my booths. One day Tap Tap Tintype’s gonna take the show on the road and go to open markets everywhere we can. Until then, I’ll be selling my market prints on Etsy. All of them are subtly unique. My Booth at Open…

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