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Rita Dove Poetry Reading
Alice Campbell Alumni Center
601 S. Lincoln Ave.
Urbana, il 61801
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Join the Humanities Research Institute for a free public reading
by award-winning poet Rita Dove.
A book signing will follow.
Books will be available for purchase.
Rita Dove served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995.
Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary
National Book Award, she also received the 1996 National Humanities
Medal from President Clinton and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from
President Obama. Other recent honors are the 2021 Gold Medal from
the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where she currently serves
as vice president for literature, a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the
Poetry Foundation and both the 2019 Wallace Stevens Award and the
2024 Leadership Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Among her numerous books are Thomas and Beulah, On the Bus with Rosa Parks,
Sonata Mulattica, Playlist for the Apocalypse and Collected Poems 1974-2004.
Her drama The Darker Face of the Earth was staged at the Kennedy Center
in Washington and the National Theatre in London, and her song cycles with
composers John Williams, Tania Leon, Richard Danielpour and others were
widely performed at venues such as Tanglewood, Lincoln Center in
New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Rita Dove teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.