Rita Dove in Conversation with Jericho Brown

Tuesday, Aug 03, 2021, 06:30pm - Tuesday, Aug 03, 2021, 08:00pm
Virtual Event with Rain Taxi

Composite photo (from left to right) of Rita Dove, the cover art for her new book Playlist for the Apocalypse, and Jericho Brown

Tuesday, August 3
5:30 pm Central — FREE!
Crowdcast

In her first book of new poems in twelve years, acclaimed poet Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy. Deftly connecting history’s grand exploits to the triumphs and tragedies of individual lives—a trademark of the writer the Boston Globe has called “perhaps the best public poet we have”—and alternating poignant meditations on mortality with acerbic observations of injustice, Playlist for the Apocalypse (Norton) takes us from the smallest moments of redemption to apocalyptic failures of the human soul. Join us as we celebrate the launch of this remarkable new book by one of the greatest poets of the era. Rita Dove will be in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown.

Free to attend, registration required.

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