The Luce Center is thrilled to present a liturgically-inflected reading with the LOGOS Poetry Collective, featuring legendary DC poet-activist and rising literary talent Kirstin Porter! Join us at City-State Brewery on Wednesday, October 19 for an evening of poetry, conversation, and fellowship. This free event is generously sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, and will serve as the launch of a new arts-based ministry in Northeast DC, developed in collaboration with the Luce Center’s own Dr. Devon Abts.

About the Poets

E. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist and author of two memoirs and several poetry collections. He hosts the WPFW morning radio show On the Margin with E. Ethelbert Miller and hosts and produces The Scholars on UDC-TV which received a 2020 Telly Award. Miller was awarded the 2019 Literary Award for poetry by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association for his book If God Invented Baseball. Most recently, he received a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and a congressional award from Congressman Jamie Raskin in recognition of his literary activism. Miller’s latest book is How I Found Love Behind the Catcher's Mask, published by City Point Press.

Kirsten Porter is a poet, editor, guest lecturer, and rescue dog advocate. She has taught creative writing, composition, and literature studies at Marymount University. Porter’s poetry and teachings focus on women, cultural diversity, community, trauma writing, and the ability for all to repair what is broken in themselves and the world. Her poems have appeared in journals (Poet Lore, The Limberlost Review, Soul Spaces--upcoming) and anthologies (This Is What America Looks Like, Voices of the Grieving Heart). Porter is the assistant to poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller and the editor of The Collected Poems of E. EthelbertMiller, published by Willow Books.