Rita Dove and Glory Edim with Salamishah Tillet

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 explore mortality, justice, art, and terror. From history’s grand exploits to her own personal struggles, Dove offers up in Playlist for the Apocalypse “a lifetime of song.” Dove also appears in the new collection On Girlhood, edited by Glory Edim, the founder of Well-Read Black Girl. On Girlhood, also featuring stories by Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Dorothy West, Camille Acker, Toni Cade Bambara, and more, explores the thin yet imperative line between Black girlhood and womanhood.

Dove and Edim speak with with Salamishah Tillet about the words that have shaped them, and the stories that have guided them.

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Rita Dove

Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing

Rita Dove and Glory Edim with Salamishah Tillet