My New Black Magazine - NYU Black Renaissance Noire BRN-FALL-206 ISSUE RELEASE | Page 107

Sterling Brown
and the Browning
of My LIfe

106

On May 11, 1984,
Sterling A. Brown was
officially named the
Poet Laureate of the
District of Columbia.
It was the highest
honor the city had ever
bestowed on a poet.

By

E. ETHELBERT MILLER
April 30, 2014

WATHA T. DANIEL PUBLIC LIBRARY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20012