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""In a proclamation issued on April 1, 1996, Former President Bill Clinton declared: "National Poetry Month offers us a welcome opportunity to celebrate not only the unsurpassed body of literature produced by our poets in the past, but also the vitality and diversity of voices reflected in the works of today's American poetry….Their creativity and wealth of language enrich our culture and inspire a new generation of Americans to learn the power of reading and writing at its best."In addition, similar official National Poetry Month proclamation have been issued by mayors from towns and cities across the country, including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Tucson, and Washington, D.C.."
Join Ms. Joy Jones and Mr. Ethelbert Miller at Cleveland Park Library on April 20th. Please register at https://www.estherproductionsinc.com/events-1/seeing-ourselves-in-the-river-in-the-mirror-in-the-world-dcs-african-american-literary-history-on-tour.
" Joy Jones has taught creative writing and public speaking to middle school students and coached poetry slam teams."
"Mr. Ethelbert Miller's poetry collections include How We Sleep on the Nights We Don’t Make Love (Curbstone Press, 2004); Buddha Weeping in Winter (Red Dragonfly Press, 2001); Whispers, Secrets, and Promises (Black Classic Press, 1998); and First Light: New and Selected Poems (Black Classic Press, 1994). He is also the author of the two memoirs The 5th Inning (PM Press, 2009) and Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer (Black Classic Press, 2000) as well as the editor of numerous anthologies, including the highly acclaimed In Search of Color Everywhere (Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1994), which received the 1994 PEN Oakland/ Josephine Miles Award. His work has been translated into multiple languages.
Miller’s honors include the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award given by Poets & Writers; the 1994 Columbia Merit Award; the 1982 Mayor’s Arts Award for Literature in Washington, D.C.; the O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize; and a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. In 1979, the mayor of Washington, D.C., proclaimed September 28, 1979, as “E. Ethelbert Miller Day,” and on May 21, 2001, “E. Ethelbert Miller Day” was proclaimed in Jackson, Tennessee. In 1996, Miller was awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from Emory & Henry College, and on April 19, 2015, he was inducted into the Washington, D.C., Hall of Fame."
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