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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Naomi Ayala: a poet, a translator, an essayist, an educator, a community activist, et cetera, et cetera. She has published three books – Wild Animals on the Moon; This Side of Early; and Calling Home: Praise Songs and Incantations – as well as one chapbook Molinos: Primeros Poemas. She is the translator of La sombra de la muerte/Death’s Shadow, a novel by His Excellency José Tomás Pérez, the Dominican Republic’s Ambassador to the United States. She is also the award-winning translator of La arqueología del viento/The Wind’s Archeology, a collection of poems by Luis Alberto Ambroggio. Ayala has also translated and published poems by Lope de Vega as well as the film script for the documentary Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas.
Ayala’s next book of poetry Peces que se escapan/Escaping Fish will be published by Flowersong Press. She’s a proud recipient of artist fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities as well as Special Recognition for Community Service from the U.S. Congress and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy of Environmental Justice Award.
[See Gargoyle Online #8 for A Conversation with Naomi Ayala with hosts Elizabeth Bruce and Michael Oliver from their Creativists in Dialogue podcast.]