May 20, 2011, Friday - Mentor Series: E. Ethelbert Miller at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Event: 'Mentor Series: E. Ethelbert Miller' 
 
The Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose presents poetry mentor E. Ethelbert Miller reading with program participants Amelia Boulware and Betsy Daub.

Amelia Boulware (fiction) works as a writer, editor, and tutor. Her short stories and poems have appeared in Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Bayou Magazine, Poet Lore, and Connotation Press.

Betsy Daub (poetry) is a conservation biologist. Her affection for nature, the outdoors, and science started from her childhood wanderings in the Sonora Desert of Arizona. She has spent over 25 years conducting field research, advocating for sound conservation public policy, and as a science educator. She works for a non-profit organization and lives in St. Paul with her partner, their 13-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son.

E. Ethelbert Miller (poetry) is a literary activist, the author of 11 collections of poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies.  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 College.