Past Events

2022 Jul 21
Music from Copland House with Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
08:00pm to 09:30pm
Location
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood

Pierre JALBERT Crossings
COPLAND Sextet for clarinet, piano, and string quartet
Richard DANIELPOUR and Rita DOVE A Standing Witness (BSO co-commission)


Pre-concert talk with Richard Danielpour, Rita...

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2022 Jul 16
Sun Valley Writers' Conference
Saturday, Jul 16, 2022 (All day) to Monday, Jul 18, 2022 (All day)
Location
Sun Valley, ID

Rita Dove will be giving two talks at the 2022 Sun Valley Writers' Conference:

July 16, 2022 - A POETRY READING, 1:00 – 1:45 PM | Pavilion. To set the tone for your days in Sun Valley, join the...

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2022 May 02
Arts on the Hill: An Evening with Rita Dove
06:00pm to 07:00pm
Location
Carr's Hill

Arts on the Hill is a recurring event on Carr's Hill featuring artists and scholars from our faculty and student body and visiting artists and scholars from around the globe. President Jim Ryan will...

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2022 Mar 20
Poetry for Today: Readings by Victoria Chang and Rita Dove
03:00pm to 04:00pm
Location
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center

In partnership with the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and as the closing event for the 2022 Virginia Festival of the Book, we present poets Victoria Chang (Obit) and Rita Dove (Playlist for the...

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2022 Feb 03
Rita Dove and Glory Edim with Salamishah Tillet
07:00pm to 08:00pm
Location
Virtual Event with NYPL
The poet laureate and the literary tastemaker share poems and stories new and old.
 
Rita Dove’s first new volume of poetry in over twelve years convenes a chorus that sings across decades to...
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2022 Jan 20
W. W. Norton's Poets on Poetry: Rita Dove
04:00pm to 05:00pm
Location
Virtual Event with W. W. Norton

Join us for a conversation between poet Rita Dove and educator Melissa Alter Smith on the art and craft of poetry and its intersection with today’s world. 

A Q&A session with attendees will follow the...

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2021 Dec 03
Rita Dove: Seattle Arts & Lectures
10:30pm to 11:30pm
Location
Virtual Event with Seattle Arts & Lectures

 

Event starts at 7:30 PM Pacific

Rita Dove is a celebrated poet, prose writer, editor, musician, and former Poet Laureate of the United States—the youngest to have served in the role. Known for...

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2021 Nov 18
An Evening With Rita Dove & Campbell McGrath: On Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
08:00pm to 09:00pm
Location
Chapman Conference Center (Miami, FL)

A Miami Book Fair event

Playlist for the ApocalypsePoems, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove’s first volume of new works in 12 years, is an exploration of the wavering...

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2021 Nov 15
Rita Dove: Playlist for the Apocalypse
07:30pm to 08:30pm
Location
92nd Street Y (New York, NY) and virtually

Playlist for the Apocalypse is Rita Dove’s first collection of new poems in more than a decade. “Few are this capacious, this capable, this serious, and this pleasurable to read,” writes Craig Morgan...

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2021 Nov 10
Home: Rita Dove, Lauren Groff, Qian Julie Wang
10:00pm to 11:30pm
Location
Virtual Event with Portland Book Festival

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Pacific

Portland Book Festival virtual events, presented by Bank of America, will feature variety-show style interviews. Each night, three authors whose work shares thematic...

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