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Pulitzer Prize Winner Rita Dove at Knox College April 10
April 10, 2017 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rita Dove will read from her
own works at 4 p.m., Monday, April 10, in the Muelder Reading Room,
Seymour Library, Knox College. Dove’s reading is part of a year-long
series of events in honor of the 50th Anniversary of Knox’s Program in
Creative Writing.
The reading is free and open to the public.
Dove served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995 and received the
1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her collection “Thomas and Beulah.”
The author of numerous books, most recently “Sonata Mulattica” in 2009
and a volume of collected poems published in 2016, she also edited the
2011 edition of “The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American
Poetry.”
Dove’s 1996 drama “The Darker Face of the Earth” premiered at the
Oregon Shakespeare Festival and was produced at the Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C., as well as the Royal National Theatre in London. Her
1998 song cycle “Seven for Luck” was set to music by John Williams and
performed by the Boston Symphony.
Among Dove’s many honors are the 2011 National Medal of Arts from
President Barack Obama, and the 1996 National Humanities Medal from
President Bill Clinton. She has received 25 honorary doctorates,
including Knox College in 1989 and most recently, Yale University. She
is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
Founded in 1837, Knox College is a national liberal arts college in
Galesburg, Illinois. Knox enrolls students from 48 states and U.S.
territories and 51 countries. Knox’s “Old Main” is a National Historic
Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas
debates.
