Past Events
2025
Feb
22
Tomorrow I May Be Far Away with Lara Downes
08:00pm to 09:30pm
Location
CenterStage at Reston Community Center, Reston, VA
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2025
Jan
17
Sonata Mulattica with Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta
08:00pm to 09:30pm
Location
Emerson Hall, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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2024
Oct
01
Rita Dove public reading at the Michener Center
01:00pm to 02:45pm
Location
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
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2024
Sep
28
Words and Wisdom - Celebrating Rita Dove and Steven Pinker
11:00am to 11:45am
Location
89th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Author Symposium, Cleveland, OH
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2024
Sep
20
Laureate Reading and Conversation
11:15am to 12:30pm
Location
Furious Flower Poetry Conference, James Madison University Festival Ballroom
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2024
Sep
19
Black Universe I: FFIV Featured Poets Reading
07:00pm to 09:30pm
Location
Furious Flower Poetry Conference, James Madison University Festival Ballroom
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2024
Sep
07
A Life in Poetry ft. Rita Dove in Conversation with Elise Paschen
01:30pm to 02:30pm
Location
Printers Row Lit Fest, Chicago, IL
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2022
Dec
08
Live! at the Library: Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry with Rita Dove and Heid E. Erdrich
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07:00pm to 08:00pm
Location
Thomas Jefferson Building - LJ 119 ,10 1st Street SE, Washington, DC 20540
This event celebrates the biennial Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, given in 2022 to former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove for Lifetime Achievement and to Heid E. Erdrich for her...
2022
Dec
01
Rita Dove: Bernard I. Rosen Memorial Lecture
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07:00pm to 08:30pm
Location
John R Buchtel CLC 1040 Copley Road Akron, OH 44320
The Bernard I Rosen Memorial Lecture series is funded through the Jewish Community Board of Akron.
Join us for a free presentation by Rita Dove on Thursday, December 1st at 7PM.
American poet...
2022
Nov
29
Visionary Sounds: Rita Dove
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07:00pm to 09:00pm
Location
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY
Pulitzer Prize-winning, US Poet Laureate Rita Dove (1993–95) narrates an evening of Beethoven through her “masterful collection” of poems Sonata Mulattica, a lyrical, layered work which “[details] the...