E. Ethelbert Miller

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E. Ethelbert Miller
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BornEugene Ethelbert Miller
(1950-11-20) November 20, 1950 (age 73)
Bronx, New York, U.S.
OccupationProfessor, poet, literary activist
LanguageEnglish
Alma mater Howard University
GenrePoetry; memoir
Website
eethelbertmiller.com/main.html

Eugene Ethelbert Miller (born November 20, 1950) is an African-American poet, teacher and literary activist, based in Washington, DC. [1] [2] He is the author of several collections of poetry and two memoirs, the editor of Poet Lore magazine, and the host of the weekly WPFW morning radio show On the Margin. [3]

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Life and career

Miller was born in the Bronx, New York. [4] He received his B.A. from Howard University. [5] He is the author of 13 books of poetry, two memoirs and is the editor of three poetry anthologies. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Beltway Poetry Quarterly , Poet Lore , and Sojourners .

Miller was the founder and director of the Ascension Poetry Reading Series, one of the oldest literary series in the Washington area. He was director of Howard University's African-American Resource Center from 1974 for more than 40 years. [6] [7] Miller has taught at various schools, including American University, Emory & Henry College, George Mason University, Harpeth Hall School and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He was also a core faculty member of the writing seminars at Bennington College. He worked with Operation Homecoming for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). [8]

A sign on the north entrance to the Dupont Circle Metro station in Washington, D.C. An excerpt from "The Wound-Dresser", by Walt Whitman, is inscribed into the granite wall around the entrance escalators. An excerpt from "We Embrace", by E. Ethelbert Miller, is inscribed into the sidewalk surrounding a nearby circular bench. Dupont Circle Metro - north entrance sign.JPG
A sign on the north entrance to the Dupont Circle Metro station in Washington, D.C. An excerpt from "The Wound-Dresser", by Walt Whitman, is inscribed into the granite wall around the entrance escalators. An excerpt from "We Embrace", by E. Ethelbert Miller, is inscribed into the sidewalk surrounding a nearby circular bench.

He currently serves as board chairperson of the Institute for Policy Studies. [9] [10] He is also on the boards of Split This Rock and the Writer's Center, and since 2002 has been co-editor of Poet Lore magazine, the oldest poetry journal in the US. [11] He is former chair of the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C., and has served on the boards of the AWP, the Edmund Burke School, PEN American Center, PEN/Faulkner Foundation, and the Washington Area Lawyer for the Arts (WALA). He hosts a weekly morning radio show on WPFW called On the Margin. [1]

In 1979, Marion Barry, the Mayor of Washington, D.C., where Miller lives, proclaimed September 28, 1979, as "E. Ethelbert Miller Day." [12] Subsequently, on May 21, 2001, an "E. Ethelbert Miller Day" was also proclaimed by the Mayor of Jackson, Tennessee. [13]

Miller's papers are held at Emory & Henry College and The George Washington University. [10] [14]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

Poetry

Anthologies

Memoirs

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References

  1. 1 2 Hayley Garrison Phillips, "Local Legend E. Ethelbert Miller Isn't Going Anywhere", Washingtonian , February 6, 2018.
  2. ↑ Elizabeth Lund, "Poetry that explores love and aggression, baseball and the natural world", The Washington Post , March 9, 2018.
  3. ↑ Grace Cavalieri, "Featured Poet E. Ethelbert Miller", 40th Anniversary "The Poet and the Poem".
  4. ↑ "E. Ethelbert Miller", Poetry Foundation.
  5. ↑ "Honorary Board". The Writer's Center. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Department of Afro-American Studies, Howard University". Archived from the original on July 8, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
  7. ↑ Courtland Milloy, "Outpouring of support for poet who says he was let go from Howard", The Washington Post, May 5, 2015.
  8. ↑ "E. Ethelbert Miller", Operation Homecoming, National Initiatives, National Endowment for the Arts, October 17, 2004. Archived from the original on August 23, 2013.
  9. 1 2 3 Krane, Scott (May 26, 2019). "E. Ethelbert Miller: Jazz in Poetry". Jazz Times.
  10. 1 2 3 4 E. Ethelbert Miller Finding Aid, Special Collections Research Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University.
  11. ↑ "Our Story", Poet Lore.
  12. ↑ "E. Ethelbert Miller's Biography". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  13. 1 2 3 "About E. Ethelbert Miller | Academy of American Poets". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Emory & Henry College Special Collections & Archives". Archived from the original on August 20, 2008. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
  15. 1 2 "Biography" Archived October 28, 2017, at the Wayback Machine , E. Ethelbert Miller website.
  16. ↑ "E. Ethelbert Miller, Eugene Ethelbert Miller". The Black Names Project. April 26, 2019. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  17. ↑ "Award-Winning Writer E. Ethelbert Miller Speaks at MC on October 22". Montgomery College. October 20, 2008. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  18. ↑ E. Ethelbert Miller biography at Willow Books.
  19. ↑ "E. Ethelbert Miller", Beltway Poetry Quarterly.
  20. ↑ "Brother E. Ethelbert Miller featured in DoveTales", Gamma Xi Phi, February 15, 2020.
  21. ↑ Ethelbert Miller, E. (September 7, 2021). When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories | Poems. Simon & Schuster. ISBN   9781947951365 . Retrieved May 31, 2021.
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