There's a place where rivers run cold and clear, where the woods seem to remember everything, and where a simple day outdoors can become a lasting memory.
In Upper Michigan: Stories, Memories, and Poems, R. H. Miller invites listeners into that world--shaped by friendship, loss, humor, and the quiet pull of the North. Through short stories, memories, and poems, he captures the spirit of the Upper Peninsula: its people, landscapes, and defining moments.
Fishing threads through the collection, but these pieces reach far beyond it. At their heart, they explore connection—between friends, generations, and the places that shape us. There is laughter, grief, and the kind of wisdom that comes with time. Warm, honest, and deeply reflective, this collection offers a chance to slow down and step into another rhythm—one memory, one story at a time.
"Upper Michigan, R. H. Miller's new collection of stories, poems, and memories, will be a delight to anyone who loves fly fishing, the U.P., nature, and married couple humor. Like John Voelker in Trout Madness, Miller finds solace in nature, understands the deeper consolations to be found in a trout stream or out in the wilderness, and paints pictures with words that make you wish you were fishing right now."—Tyler R. Tichelaar, PhD and award-winning author of Charley Kawbawgam: Ojibwa Chief and Lake Superior Pioneer
ROBERT H. MILLER is a distinguished scholar, memoirist, poet, and Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Louisville. Renowned for his studies of Graham Greene and twentieth-century literature, Miller has also earned acclaim for his memoir Deaf Hearing Boy and award-winning fiction, poetry, and essays exploring memory, identity, and human experience.
