Billie Holiday
Ethelbert Miller, “Billie Holiday” from First Light: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 1994 by Ethelbert Miller. Reprinted by permission of Black Classic Press.
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Poet E. Ethelbert Miller b. 1950
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Subjects Arts & Sciences, Music, Social Commentaries, Popular Culture
Biography
E. (Eugene) Ethelbert Miller was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1950. He attended Howard University and received a BA in African American studies in 1972. A self-described “literary activist,” Miller is on the board of the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive multi-issue think tank, and has served as director of the African American Studies Resource Center at Howard University since 1974. His collections of poetry . . .
Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Arts & Sciences, Music, Social Commentaries, Popular Culture
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
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