Charlotte Taylor Fryar will be in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller to discuss how she used historical research and environmental observation—as exemplified in Potomac Fever—to read a landscape and reveal hidden histories within a specific place.

In partnership with The Inner Loop. Potomac Fever is The Inner Loop’s Author’s Corner spotlight. The Inner Loop cultivates and promotes the distinctive literary culture of Washington, DC. Author’s Corner supports local authors’ independently published books by spotlighting them in community programming and collaborations.

Charlotte Taylor Fryar is the author of POTOMAC FEVER: REFLECTIONS ON THE NATION’S RIVER, an essay collection on the natural history and racial history of Washington, D.C.'s waterways. Her essays have been published in Orion, Fourth Genre, Literary Hub, and the Southern Humanities Review, among other publications. With a Ph.D. in American Studies and a background in clinical herbalism, she is the Writer-In-Residence at a boarding school in northern Virginia. She lives in Glen Echo, Maryland, less than 700 feet from the banks of the Potomac River.

E. Ethelbert Miller is a writer and literary activist. He received the 2022 Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award by the Peace and Justice Studies Association, named a 2023 Grammy-nominee finalist for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album. He was awarded a Furious Flower Lifetime Achievement award in 2024. He is the former director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University. A position he held from 1974-2015. His most recent book is - THE LITTLE BOOK OF E.

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