Rita Dove in Conversation with Trapeta Mayson

Wednesday, Aug 11, 2021, 07:30pm - Wednesday, Aug 11, 2021, 08:30pm
Virtual Event with the Free Library of Philadelphia

Wednesday, August 11
7:30 pm Eastern — FREE!

Former United States Poet Laureate Rita Dove won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Thomas and Beulah, a semi-fictional collection of verse that examined the lives of her grandparents. In addition to her many other collections, she is the author of an essay collection, stage play, novel, and short story collection. The only poet to win both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts, her other honors include the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal from Harvard University, the Wallace Stevens Award from the American Academy of Poets, and 28 honorary degrees. She has taught poetry at the University of Virginia for more than 30 years. In Playlist for the Apocalypse, Dove offers her thoughts about the state of global injustice, the United States’s unsteady moral compass, and small moments of grace.

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