E. Ethelbert Miller Explained

E. Ethelbert Miller
Birth Name:Eugene Ethelbert Miller
Birth Date:20 November 1950
Birth Place:Bronx, New York, U.S.
Occupation:Professor, poet, literary activist
Language:English
Alma Mater:Howard University
Genre:Poetry; memoir

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]

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]

He currently serves as board chairperson of the Institute for Policy Studies.[9] 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.[10] 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.

In 1979, Marion Barry, the Mayor of Washington, D.C., where Miller lives, proclaimed September 28, 1979, as "E. Ethelbert Miller Day."[11] Subsequently, on May 21, 2001, an "E. Ethelbert Miller Day" was also proclaimed by the Mayor of Jackson, Tennessee.[12]

Miller's papers are held at Emory & Henry College and The George Washington University.[9] [13]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

Poetry

Anthologies

Memoirs

External links

Notes and References

  1. 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. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/e-ethelbert-miller "E. Ethelbert Miller"
  5. Web site: Honorary Board. June 9, 2020. The Writer's Center. en-US.
  6. Web site: Department of Afro-American Studies, Howard University. . July 12, 2009 . July 8, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090708214827/http://www.coas.howard.edu/afroamerican/RecourceCenter.html . dead .
  7. Courtland Milloy, "Outpouring of support for poet who says he was let go from Howard", The Washington Post, May 5, 2015.
  8. http://arts.endow.gov/national/homecoming/authorbios/miller.html "E. Ethelbert Miller"
  9. https://searcharchives.library.gwu.edu/repositories/2/resources/367 E. Ethelbert Miller Finding Aid
  10. http://poetlore.com/about/ourstory/ "Our Story"
  11. Web site: E. Ethelbert Miller's Biography. June 9, 2020. The HistoryMakers. en.
  12. Web site: About E. Ethelbert Miller Academy of American Poets. June 9, 2020. Academy of American Poets.
  13. Web site: Emory & Henry College Special Collections & Archives. . July 12, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080820232451/http://ehcweb.ehc.edu/archives/miller.html . August 20, 2008 . dead .
  14. http://www.eethelbertmiller.com/biography.html "Biography"
  15. Web site: April 26, 2019. E. Ethelbert Miller, Eugene Ethelbert Miller. June 9, 2020. The Black Names Project. en.
  16. Web site: October 20, 2008. Award-Winning Writer E. Ethelbert Miller Speaks at MC on October 22. June 9, 2020. Montgomery College.
  17. Web site: Krane. Scott. May 26, 2019. E. Ethelbert Miller: Jazz in Poetry. Jazz Times.
  18. https://willowlit.net/the-collected-poems-of-e-ethelbert-miller/ E. Ethelbert Miller biography
  19. http://www.beltwaypoetry.com/poetry/poets/names/miller-e-ethelbert/ "E. Ethelbert Miller"
  20. http://gammaxiphi.com/2020/02/15/brother-e-ethelbert-miller-featured-in-dovetales "Brother E. Ethelbert Miller featured in DoveTales"
  21. Book: When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories Poems. Simon & Schuster. 9781947951365. 31 May 2021. Ethelbert Miller. E.. 7 September 2021.