In 1996, Miller delivered the commencement

address at Emory and Henry College and was

awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of

Literature. He has been a Fulbright Senior

Specialist Program Fellow to Israel in 2004 and

2012.

Miller is often heard on National Public Radio.

He is host of the weekly morning radio show

On the Margin which airs on WPFW-FM 89.3.

Miller is host and producer of The Scholars on

UDC-TV, and his E-Notes has been a popular

blog since 2004. On April 19, 2015, Miller was

inducted into the Washington DC Hall of Fame.

In 2016, Miller received the AWP George

Garrett Award for Outstanding Community

Service in Literature and the DC Mayor’s Arts

Award for Distinguished Honor.

E. Ethelbert Miller

E. Ethelbert Miller is a writer and literary

activist. He is the author of several collections

of poetry and two memoirs. Miller serves as

the board chair of the Institute for Policy

Studies (IPS), a progressive think tank located

in Washington, D.C. and is a board member for

The Community Foundation for the National

Capital Region. For fourteen years he has been

the editor of Poet Lore, the oldest poetry

magazine published in the United States.

His latest book of poetry, The Collected Poems

of E. Ethelbert Miller, edited by Kirsten Porter

and published in March 2016 by Aquarius

Press, is a comprehensive collection that

represents over 40 years of his career as a

poet.

www.eethelbertmiller.com

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