Past Events

2022 Dec 08
Live! at the Library: Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry with Rita Dove and Heid E. Erdrich
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...

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2022 Dec 01
Rita Dove: Bernard I. Rosen Memorial Lecture
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...

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2022 Nov 29
Visionary Sounds: Rita Dove
07:00pm to 09:00pm
Location
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY

Pulitzer Prize-winning, US Poet Laureate Rita Dove (199395) narrates an evening of Beethoven through her “masterful collection” of poems Sonata Mulattica, a lyrical, layered work which “[details] the...

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2022 Oct 18
The Jonathan and Maxine Marshall Distinguished Lecture Series: An Evening with Rita Dove
07:00pm to 08:30pm
Location
The Roskind Great Hall (rm 101) Armstrong Hall (1100 S McAllister Ave, Tempe, AZ 85287)

ASU Humanities Week 2022 presents Rita Dove as speaker for the Marshall Distinguished Lecture. The Jonathan and Maxine Marshall Distinguished Lecture Series brings to ASU nationally known scholars...

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2022 Oct 15
Library of Virginia Literary Awards Celebration: Ceremony
06:00pm to 09:30pm
Location
Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA

LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA LITERARY AWARDS CELEBRATION
Place: Library of Virginia Lobby
Cost: Purchase your tickets here.
The celebration, hosted by best-selling Virginia author Adriana Trigiani, includes...

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2022 Oct 13
Tucson Humanities Festival Reading: Rita Dove
07:00pm to 08:30pm
Location
Health Sciences Innovation Building (HSIB), 1670 E Drachman St, Tucson, AZ 85721

The Tucson Humanities Festival and the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona are jointly presenting a reading by Rita Dove.  This reading is presented in partnership with the Borchard...

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2022 Oct 10
An Evening of Poetry with Rita Dove
07:00pm to 08:00pm
Location
Leach Theatre, Missouri S&T, Rolla, MO

The Center for Arts & Innovation's first annual S&T Distinguished Literary Speaker’s Series presents, "An Evening of Poetry with Rita Dove."

For information, please visit this link!

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2022 Oct 06
Library of Virginia Literary Awards Celebration: Poetry Discussion Panel
06:00pm to 07:30pm

POETRY DISCUSSION PANEL
Place: Online at facebook.com/LibraryofVA or youtube.com/user/LibraryofVa
Cost: Free 
Virginia author and executive director of James Madison University's Furious Flower Poetry...

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2022 Jul 28
Weinstein Author Series – Rita Dove | Playlist for the Apocalypse
06:00pm to 07:30pm
Location
Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA

Please join us in person at the Library for a special evening of poetry with Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, who will read from her latest book, Playlist for the...

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2022 Jul 25
Write America: Carlos Fonseca, Priya Jain and Rita Dove
07:00pm to 08:00pm
Location
This event is on Crowdcast

Join us for the sixty-ninth episode of Write America on Monday July 25th featuring Carlos Fonseca, Priya Jain and Rita Dove as they read and discuss their works- intimating how the deep divisions in...

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