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Museum of the African Diaspora

June 29 - June 29, 2011

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685 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105
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E. Ethelbert Miller will be reading at the Museum of the African Diaspora from The Ear is An Organ Made for Love, a forthcoming collection of poetry as well as The 5th Inning, his second memoir. Mr. Miller is a literary activist. He was born in 1950 and grew-up in the South Bronx. A graduate of Howard University, he was one of the first students to major in African American Studies. Today he is the board chair of the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank located in Washington, D.C. Mr. Miller is also the director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, a position he has held since 1974. The author of several collections of poetry, he has also written two memoirs, Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer (2000) and The 5th Inning (2009). Fathering Words was selected by the D.C. Public Library for its DC WE READ, one book, one city program in 2003.