Poet and activist E. Ethelbert Miller will read from his works on Thursday,
November 29th at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
E. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist. He is the board chairperson of
the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). He is a board member of The Writer's
Center and editor of Poet Lore magazine. Since 1974, he has been the director
of the African American Resource Center at Howard University. Mr. Miller is
the former chair of the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. and a former
core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars at ?Bennington He is
the author of the following books: Andromeda (1974)??The Land of Smiles and
the Land of No Smiles (1974)??Migrant Worker (1978)??Season of Hunger/Cry of
Rain (1982)??Where are the Love Poems for Dictators? (1986, reprinted in
2001)??First Light (1994) Whispers and Secrets, Fathering Words the Making of
An African American Writer, Buddha Weeping in Winter, How we Sleep on the
Nights We Dont Make Love.
He is the editor of the anthologies Synergy: An Anthology of Washington D. C.
, Women Surviving Massacres and Men (1977)?In Search of Color Everywhere
(1994)? and Beyond the Frontier (2002)?
The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah
Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,
X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by
an open reading.
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