{"id":2306,"date":"2016-03-11T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developmenttwo.marymount.edu\/blog\/reading-and-reception-for-poet-e-ethelbert-miller-on-april-5\/"},"modified":"2016-03-11T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T08:43:00","slug":"reading-and-reception-for-poet-e-ethelbert-miller-on-april-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/blog\/reading-and-reception-for-poet-e-ethelbert-miller-on-april-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading and Reception for Poet E. Ethelbert Miller on April 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

The life work of influential Washington, D.C., poet E. Ethelbert Miller will be celebrated with a reading, reception and book signing at Marymount University on Tuesday, April 5. The public is invited to the reading from 1 to 2 p.m. in Reinsch Auditorium, with the reception and signing to follow in the Lee Reception Room from 2 to 4 p.m.\u00a0 There is no cost to attend.<\/p>\n

\u0093Ethelbert is an amazing poet, literary activist and friend,\u0094 said Kirsten Porter<\/a>, who teaches\u00a0 literature and languages at Marymount and edited \u0093The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller\u0094 <\/em>(Willow Books\/$35), which will be available for purchase. \u0093Not only is he a wonderful poet but he also has a wonderful heart. He knows and helps everybody and is a community treasure. I want the event to be a true celebration that honors his work and all he\u0092s done for the community.\u0094<\/p>\n

The author of eleven collections of poetry, Miller has also written two memoirs, \u0093Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer\u0094 and \u0093The 5th Inning.\u0094 For many years he served as the director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University. He is the board chairperson of the Institute for Policy Studies, a board member of The Writer\u0092s Center and editor of Poet Lore magazine. He\u0092s also a regular contributor to National Public Radio.<\/p>\n

Porter, who received a bachelor\u0092s degree in English from Marymount in 2007, met Miller at a campus reading while an undergraduate.<\/p>\n

\u0093I started with that simple connection,\u0094 she said. \u0093I bought a book, had him sign it and told him I wrote poetry. He asked me to send him some work, and it was the start of friendship, a mentorship. Then he\u0092d send me things he was writing and I\u0092d give him feedback.\u0094<\/p>\n

Miller encouraged her to attend graduate school and wrote her recommendation to George Mason University, where she earned a master\u0092s of fine arts. She was a copy editor on his second memoir. For this project, she selected poems from his 40-year career and wrote the introduction.<\/p>\n

\u0093It\u0092s the most intense work I\u0092ve ever done,\u0094 she said of the year-long project.<\/p>\n

In the introduction, Porter wrote that Miller\u0092s poetry sings of the sadness, loneliness and longing for spiritual and human connection found in an imperfect world.<\/p>\n

\u0093His words are a call for love and equality, a protest against oppression, a prayer for change,\u0094 she added. \u0093His language promotes compassion, healing, and amazing grace.\u0094<\/p>\n

Dr. Hollynd Karapetkova<\/a>, chair of Marymount\u0092s Department of Literature and Language, is excited about the event.<\/p>\n

\u0093Ethelbert is very open and generous with our students when he visits campus,\u0094 Karapetkova said. \u0093They share their work and get substantial feedback. He\u0092s such an important figure in D.C. and in the country.\u0094<\/p>\n

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\nPoet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller and Marymount University\u0092s Kirsten Porter are pictured outside the Library of Congress. (Photo courtesy of Donna Porter)
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