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E. Ethelbert Miller
at the 2013 Fall for the Book
at the 2013 Fall for the Book
BornEugene Ethelbert Miller
(1950-11-20)November 20, 1950(age 73)
Bronx,New York, U.S.
OccupationProfessor, poet, literary activist
LanguageEnglish
Alma materHoward University
GenrePoetry; memoir
Website
eethelbertmiller.com/main.html

Eugene Ethelbert Miller(born November 20, 1950) is anAfrican-Americanpoet,teacher and literary activist, based inWashington, DC.[1][2]He is the author of several collections of poetry and two memoirs, the editor ofPoet Loremagazine, and the host of the weeklyWPFWmorning radio showOn the Margin.[3]

Life and career

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Miller was born in theBronx, New York.[4] He received his B.A. fromHoward 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, includingBeltway Poetry Quarterly,Poet Lore,andSojourners.

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, includingAmerican University,Emory & Henry College,George Mason University,Harpeth Hall Schooland theUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas.He was also a core faculty member of the writing seminars atBennington College.He worked withOperation Homecomingfor theNational Endowment for the Humanities(NEH).[8]

A sign on the north entrance to theDupont CircleMetrostation inWashington, D.C.An excerpt from "The Wound-Dresser", byWalt 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 theInstitute for Policy Studies.[9][10]He is also on the boards ofSplit This Rockand theWriter's Center,and since 2002 has been co-editor ofPoet Loremagazine, the oldest poetry journal in the US.[11]He is former chair of the Humanities Council ofWashington, D.C.,and has served on the boards of theAWP,theEdmund Burke School,PEN American Center,PEN/Faulkner Foundation,and theWashington Area Lawyer for the Arts (WALA).He hosts a weekly morning radio show onWPFWcalledOn the Margin.[1]

In 1979,Marion Barry,the Mayor ofWashington, 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 ofJackson, Tennessee.[13]

Miller's papers are held atEmory & Henry CollegeandThe George Washington University.[10][14]

Awards and honors

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  • 1979: September 28 proclaimed as "E. Ethelbert Miller Day" by theMayor of Washington, D.C.[10]
  • 1982: Mayor's Art Award for Literature
  • 1988: Received the Public Humanities Award from the D.C. Humanities Council[15]
  • 1993: Columbia Merit Award[16]
  • 1994: Made an Honorary Citizen of the city ofBaltimoreon July 17 by theMayor of Baltimore[17]
  • 1994:PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award(forIn Search of Color Everywhere)
  • 1995:O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize
  • 1996: Honorary doctorate of literature awarded on May 18 by Emory & Henry College[13]
  • 1997: Stephen Henderson Poetry Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society[9]
  • 2001: May 21 declared as "E. Ethelbert Miller Day" by the Mayor of Jackson, Tennessee[10][13]
  • 2003:Fathering Wordsselected by DC WE READ for the one book, one city program sponsored by the D.C. Public Libraries[15]
  • 2003: Honored by First LadyLaura Bushat theWhite House
  • 2004:FulbrightScholarship recipient[9]
  • 2015: Inducted into the Washington, DC Hall of Fame[18]
  • 2016: AWP George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature and the DC Mayor's Arts Award for Distinguished Honor[19]
  • 2018: Inducted into Gamma Xi Phi, a fraternity for artists[20]

Bibliography

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Poetry

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Anthologies

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Memoirs

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References

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  1. ^abHayley 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.RetrievedJune 9,2020.
  6. ^"Department of Afro-American Studies, Howard University".Archived fromthe originalon July 8, 2009.RetrievedJuly 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. Archivedfrom the originalon August 23, 2013.
  9. ^abcKrane, Scott (May 26, 2019)."E. Ethelbert Miller: Jazz in Poetry".Jazz Times.
  10. ^abcdE. 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.RetrievedJune 9,2020.
  13. ^abc"About E. Ethelbert Miller | Academy of American Poets".Academy of American Poets.RetrievedJune 9,2020.
  14. ^"Emory & Henry College Special Collections & Archives".Archived fromthe originalon August 20, 2008.RetrievedJuly 12,2009.
  15. ^ab"Biography"ArchivedOctober 28, 2017, at theWayback Machine,E. Ethelbert Miller website.
  16. ^"E. Ethelbert Miller, Eugene Ethelbert Miller".The Black Names Project.April 26, 2019.RetrievedJune 9,2020.
  17. ^"Award-Winning Writer E. Ethelbert Miller Speaks at MC on October 22".Montgomery College.October 20, 2008.RetrievedJune 9,2020.
  18. ^E. Ethelbert Miller biographyat 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.ISBN9781947951365.RetrievedMay 31,2021.
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