E. Ethelbert is also included on the
Jazz Poetry Kafe: The BlackWords Compilation CD
http://aalbc.com/authors/jazz.htm

 

Howard University Professor and poet E. Ethelbert Miller was feted by the Capital Bookfest on Saturday, October 6, 2007. Here, he's be interviewed by novelist Marie Arana. Ethelbert was interviewed in Mosaic Issue #15, Summer 2005.

Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century
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E. Ethelbert Miller (Editor)

ISBN: 1574780174
Format: Paperback, 572pp
Pub. Date: March 2002
Publisher: Black Classic Press

More than 100 prominent African American poets contribute, including the distinguished and award-winning poets Toi Derricotte, Sam Cornish, Jabari Asim, and Pinkie Gordon Lane.

This is an expansive collection made rich and full by a powerful synthesis of voices. Here the voices of emerging writers resonate along with award-winning and noted poets. The result is a vibrant collection of Black poetry that delights and amazes with moments of solitude, reflection, rebirth and love. In assembling the poems for Beyond the Frontier, Miller contacted hundreds of writers and reviewed over one thousand poems. Eventually he selected and shaped the poems into a massive book with 175 contributors, 354 poems and 600 pages — making Beyond the Frontier one of the largest collections of Black poetry ever published.

Miller is a poet and an intentional anthologist. He has made a career as a nurturer of Black writers and works tirelessly to ensure the survival of African American poetry. “I wanted to compile a work that would chronicle the beginning of a new century and a new age in Black poetry,” said Miller in discussing Beyond the Frontier, “One that included works by those who were prominent at the end of the last century and those that will be prominent into the new century.” Miller went on to say, “This is the beginning, this is the edge, this is the frontier and this volume is actually looking beyond the frontier.”

Fathering Words
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by E. Ethelbert Miller

Format: paperback, 192 pages
ISBN: 0-312-27013-5
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Publication Date: June 2001

With frank insight, Miller recreates the steps that led to his career choices. From his childhood in the South Bronx, to his college days at Howard University, to his own evolution into a father and husband, Miller explores how his family and friends shaped his life. In particular, his father Egberto, who came to the U.S. from Panama, and his older brother Richard, who became a monk and died young.

With straightforward honesty punctuated by humor and warmth, the quietly pensive Miller tells the original yet universal true story of fathers and sons.

"A poignant memoir that belongs in all collections of poetry and African American literature."--Library Journal

"Fathering Words is a book of many faces.  It is an open-veined and honest thing, packed with poetic moves."--Washington Post

"Modest and sincere, this restrained memoir also succeeds as a superb document of the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s and the current African-American literary scene."--Publishers Weekly

 First Light: New & Selected Poems

Format: Paperback, 144pp.
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Pub. Date: September 1994

Click here: To read a sample of the poetry contained in First Light