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E. Ethelbert Miller

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]

E. Ethelbert Miller

Eugene Ethelbert Miller
(1950-11-20) November 20, 1950
Bronx, New York, U.S.

Professor, poet, literary activist

English

American

Howard University

Poetry; memoir

1979: September 28 proclaimed as "E. Ethelbert Miller Day" by the [10]

Mayor of Washington, D.C.

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 of on July 17 by the Mayor of Baltimore[17]

Baltimore

1994: (for In Search of Color Everywhere)

PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award

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[13]

[10]

2003: Fathering Words selected by DC WE READ for the one book, one city program sponsored by the D.C. Public Libraries

[15]

2003: Honored by First Lady at the White House

Laura Bush

2004: Scholarship recipient[9]

Fulbright

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]

"The Land of Smiles and the Land of No Smiles: A Poem." 1974.

Andromeda. Chiva Publications. 1974.

The Migrant Worker. . 1978. ISBN 978-0-931846-07-6.

Washington Writers' Publishing House

Season of Hunger/Cry of Rain: Poems 1975-1980. . 1982. ISBN 978-0-916418-35-9.

Lotus Press

. Open Hand Publishing. 1986. ISBN 978-0-940880-65-8.

Where Are the Love Poems for Dictators?

The Fire This Time: 1992 and Beyond Los Angeles (Heaven Chapbook series), , 1993.

White Fields Press

. Black Classic Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-933121-81-2.

First Light: New and Selected Poems

. Black Classic Press. 1998. ISBN 978-1-57478-011-6.

Whispers, Secrets, and Promises

Buddha Weeping in Winter. . 2001. ISBN 978-1-890193-25-6.

Red Dragonfly Press

How We Sleep On the Nights We Don't Make Love. . 2004. ISBN 978-1-931896-04-7.

Curbstone Press

. DC Poets. October 31, 2008.

"The 10 Race Koans as presented to Charles Johnson on the Morning of July 13, 2008; Shonda in England; Thomas Jefferson said he saw you in Paris"

. Delaware Poetry Review.

"The Hooker Never Votes; Water Song; 2 Shorts and a Smoke"

On Saturdays, I Santana With You. . 2009. ISBN 978-1-931896-50-4.

Curbstone Press

The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller (ed. Kirsten Porter), Willow Books, 2016.  978-0996139021

ISBN

If God Invented Baseball: Poems, , 2018. ISBN 9781947951006

Simon and Schuster

When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories, Simon and Schuster, 2021.  9781947951365[21]

ISBN

Archived February 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine – official website

"Living the Legacy"

American Academy of Poets page

at Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Two Poems by Miller

with Grace Cavalieri

Audio interview

reverbiage, NPR

"E. Ethelbert Miller"

Archived September 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, On Being

"Poetry by E. Ethelbert Miller"

Writing For Peace, February 2020.

"E. Ethelbert Miller, Featured Writer"

. Interview with Indran Amirthanayagam. The Poetry Channel, July 12, 2021.

"Talking With Poets: E. Ethelbert Miller, The Poet of Baseball and of Life"

at HowardZinn.org.

E. Ethelbert Miller Receives 2022 Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award