Scholar Hour featuting E. Ethelbert Miller
Tue, Jun 20
|Sankofa Video, Books, & Café
Join us for another edition of Scholar Hour hour featuring E. Ethelbert Miller poet, author, host of On the Margin with Ethelbert Miller on WPFW 89.3!
Time & Location
Jun 20, 2023, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Sankofa Video, Books, & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
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About The Event
About the books:
How I Found Love Behind the Catcher's Mask: Poems (2022)
One can watch many baseball games before seeing a triple play. With this book E. Ethelbert Miller completes his baseball trilogy. How I Found Love Behind the Catcher's Mask is a collection of poems that celebrates baseball by putting a spin on how the game brings meaning to one's life.
Well known Washington, D.C. poet, former Howard University professor, and literary activist, Ethelbert Miller is personal and political when writing from the batter's box or pitching mound. Here are poems that tip their caps to Joe DiMaggio, Ken Griffey Sr., and Emmett Ashford.
Miller's book does not duck from examining the Black Sox Scandal, the career of Glenn Burke or the tragedy of Carl Mays. Miller's own life at times is a playing field for sadness and what
Ellington called "mood indigo." But his love for baseball…
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