In 1979, the Mayor of Washington, DC proclaimed September 28, 1979 as 
“E. Ethelbert Miller Day.” Mr. Miller was awarded the Mayor’s Art Award for literarture in 1982. He received the Public Humanities Award from the D.C. Humanities Council in 1988. In 1993 the literary community of Washington awarded him the Columbia Merit Award. On July 17, 1994, the Mayor of Baltimore made him an honorary citizen of the city of Baltimore.

In Search of Color Everywhere was awarded the 1994 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award and was a Book of the Month Club selection. Mr. Miller received the 1995 O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from Emory & Henry College on May 18, 1996. In 1997 he was presented with the Stephen Henderson Poetry Award by the African American Literature and Culture Society. In 2001 the Mayor of Jackson, Tennessee proclaimed May 21, 2001 as “E. Ethelbert Miller Day.” Fathering Words was selected by  DC WE READ in 2003 for the one book, one city program sponsored by the D.C. Public Libraries. In 2004, Mr. Miller was awarded a Fulbright to visit Israel.
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Advisory Board member for the African American Literature & Culture Society.

Mr. Miller is an advisory editor for the African American Review, an advisory board member of Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture, a contributing editor to Callaloo and Editorial Advisor for the Black Issues Book Review. Currently a Commissioner for the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, a board member of the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C.

Mr. Miller is often heard on National Public Radio (NPR). He hosts Humanities Profiled on DCTV.

Mr. Miller served on the following boards:

PEN American Center

PEN/Faulkner Foundation

Associated Writing Programs (AWP)

Washington Area Lawyer for the Arts (WALA)

Edmund Burke School 

Mr. Miller has served as a visiting professor as the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and adjunct professor at American University. In 1996 he was the Jessie Ball DuPont Scholar at Emory & Henry College. He was scholar-in-residence at George Mason University, and Carell Writer-in-Residence at Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, Tennessee. 

For several years he hosted the popular weekly radio program Maiden Voyage on WDCU-FM, as well as Vertigo On The Air on WPFW

The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry edited by Arnold
   Rampersad.

Dance the Guns to Silence edited by Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Kadija Sesay.

New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers In America edited by Kevin E.
  Quashie, Joyce Lausch and Keith Miller.

Spirit & Flame edited by Keith Gilyard

Trouble the Water, 250 Years of African American Poetry edited by Jerry  Ward.

The Garden Thrives edited by Clarence Major.

The New Cavalcade edited by Arthur P. Davis, Saunders Redding and Joyce Joyce.

I Am The Darker Brother edited by Arnold Adoff.

Erotique Noire/Black Erotica edited by Miriam DeCosta Willis, Reginald 
   Martin and Roseann Bell.

I Feel A Little Jumpy Around You edited by Naomi S. Nye and Paul 
   Jeneczko.

360 A Revolution of Blakc Poets edited by Kalamu ya Salaam and
Kwame Alexander.

Catch the Fire edited by Derrick I.M. Gilbert (aka D. Knowledge).

Beyond Lament, Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust
   edited by Marguerite M. Striar.

Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American
   edited by Maria Gillan and Jennifer Gillan.

Literature, The Evolving Canon edited by Sven P. Birkerts .

Weavings 2000: The Maryland Millennial Anthology edited by Michael
    Glaser.

Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry
    Edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan.

Light, Among Shadow: A Celebration of Orlando Letelier, Ronni Karpen
    Moffitt, and Heroes of The Human Rights Movement edited by Scott
    Williams.

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing Poetry by Nikki Moustaki
Cabin Fever: Poets At Joaquin Miller’s Cabin 1984-2001 edited by 
  Jacklyn W. Potter, Dwaine Rieves and Gary Stein.

Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement
  to the Present edited by Joanne V. Gabbin.

Perfect In Their Art: Poems On Boxing From Homer To Ali edited by
  Robert Hedin and Michael Waters.

The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South edited by Nikky Finney 

   We Begin Here - Poems For Palestine and Lebanon edited by Kamal  
      Boullata and Kathy Engel

On-Line Exhibit at the Anacostia Museum (Smithsonian) 
curated by E. Ethelbert Miller


Link here for More Information on Current Exhibit:

ALL THE STORIES ARE TRUE:
AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS SPEAK
June 7, 2004 to December 31, 2004

Guest curator E. Ethelbert Miller explores the relationship between inspiration and personal place in the work of nine celebrated authors. The exhibit features artwork, personal objects, and taped interviews and readings from Valerie Boyd, Dolores Kendrick, Kenneth Carroll, Ocatvia E. Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Walter Dean Myers, Eloise Greenfield, Edwidge Danticat, and Charles Johnson. Also featured are the inspirational works of noted artist and illustrator of children's literature, Kadir Nelson.

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