Rita Dove - Folger Poetry Board Reading
This event on 19th May 2015 at 19:30 has past.
Contact: info@folger.edu
Rita Dove, a former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, shares her favorite poems by other poets in addition to reading her own work.
The work of Rita Dove exhibits a formal grace with elegant phrasing that glides and dips, displaying an excitement and mastery of the language. Dove is a former U.S. Poet Laureate (1993-1995) and recipient of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book, Thomas and Beulah. Her most recent poetry collections are Sonata Mulattica and American Smooth, and she is sole editor of The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. She is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
This event is part of the Folger Shakespeare Library's O. B. Hardison Poetry Series, director Teri Cross Davis. Box office http://events.folger.edu/single/PSDetail.aspx?psn=408
Price: $15.00
Time: 7:30pm
Folger Shakespeare Theatre
201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC, Washington DC, 20003-1004, US
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