Paul Verlaine Arthur Rimbaud, who admired his poetry. He urged Rimbaud to come to Paris, and by 1872, he had lost interest in Mathilde, and effectively abandoned her and their son, preferring the company of his new lover. Rimbaud and Verlaine's stormy affair took them to London in 1872. In Brussels in July 1873 in a drunken, jealous rage, he fired two shots with a pistol at Rimbaud, wounding his left wrist, though not seriously injuring the poet. As an indirect result of this incident, Verlaine was arrested and imprisoned at Mons, where he underwent a re-conversion to Roman Catholicism, which again
Tim Miller (poet) Tim Miller (poet) Tim Miller (born August 23, 1979) is an American poet and nonfiction writer. His work is essentially a dialogue and addition to ancient literature, world mythology, and religious scripture. Recently he has published a long narrative poem, "To the House of the Sun", portions of which had previously appeared online, in print, and in video form. Along with Paul Jessup, Miller founded Six Gallery Press in 2000. In 2004 they handed ownership of the press off to a collective formed by some of its other authors. In 2006, he and his wife, the novelist Jenny Miller, started