The Apollo Theater, October 24, 1962
Ezra Pound left his coat
in the theater.
There are many things
and belongings he left behind.
Too many books and manuscripts.
Many love letters left unsigned.
Pound was a man of many
desires. James Brown believed
his dance moves were inspired
by The Cantos.
Had Pound not begun his poem
with a conjunction, things in the future
would have been different.
James Brown would have found Pound’s
coat backstage at the Apollo.
Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Miho Kinnas is a translator, writer, and poet. She is the author of three poetry collections: Today, Fish Only (2015), Move Over, Bird (2019) both by Math Paper Press, and Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias by Free Verse Press. The poem, “Three Shrimp Boats on the Horizon,” was selected for Best American Poetry 2023. Also in 2023, a book of poetry collaborated with E. Ethelbert Miller, We Eclipse into The Other Side, was published by Pinyon Publishing. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the City University of Hong Kong. She is an instructor at Writers.com, Camp Conroy, New York Writers’ Workshop and Life-Long Learning of Hilton Head. She offers poetry workshops based on Japanese short poetic forms.
E. Ethelbert Miller is a writer and literary activist. He was born in 1950 and grew up in New York City. A graduate of Howard University, he was one of the first students at that institution to major in African American Studies. He is the former board chair of IPS and the former editor of Poet Lore.
Miller served as Director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University. In 1996, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature from Emory and Henry College. A Fulbright Senior Specialist Program Fellow in 2004 and 2012, Miller is the founder and former chair of the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. The author of several collections of poetry, he has also written a set of memoirs, Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer (2000) and The 5th Inning (2009),
Recently he collaborated with Miho Kinnas on a book of poetry, We Eclipse into The Other Side (Pinyon Publishing, 2023).
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