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<font face="Arial, Helvetica">Please join us for a poetry reading by
former U. S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove on Tuesday, November 30, 4 pm, at
Battell Chapel (corner of College and Elm Streets). A reception will
follow at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street.
This event is free and open to the public on a first come, first served
basis. This event is sponsored by the Charles G. Trumbull Endowment Fund
and the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library.<br>
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Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to
the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995 and is currently Poet Laureate
of the Commonwealth of Virginia. She has received numerous literary and
academic honors, among them the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and, most
recently, the 2003 Emily Couric Leadership Award, the 2001 Duke Ellington
Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1997 Sara Lee Frontrunner Award, the 1997
Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, the 1996 Heinz Award in the
Arts and Humanities, and the 1996 National Humanities Medal. She has
published the poetry collections The Yellow House on the Corner (1980),
Museum (1983), Thomas and Beulah (1986), Grace Notes (1989), Selected
Poems (1993), Mother Love (1995), On the Bus with Rosa Parks
(1999), a book of short stories, Fifth Sunday (1985), the novel
Through the Ivory Gate (1992), essays under the title The Poet's World
(1995), and the play The Darker Face of the Earth. Her new poetry
collection, American Smooth, was published by W.W. Norton & Company
in September 2004. <br>
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More information about Rita Dove and examples of her work can be found
online:<br>
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Nancy Kuhl<br>
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature<br>
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<br>
Yale University<br>
121 Wall Street<br>
P.O. Box 208240<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8240<br>
Phone: 203.432.2966 <br>
Fax: 203.432.4047</html>