Skip to main content

Events

A Poetry Reading by Rita Dove, Followed by an Interview with Marcellus Blount

Past Series, Poets at SOF/Heyman

dateSeptember 23, 2009 timeWednesday, 6:15pm EDT location The Schapiro Center, Davis Auditorium, Columbia University
Notes
  • Free and open to the public
  • No registration necessary
  • First come, first seated

Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995 and as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. She has received numerous literary and academic honors, among them the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. She will read from a selection of her poetry and then discuss her work with Marcellus Blount of the Columbia English Department.

Participants
  • Rita Dove Poet
Related Events