Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Rita Dove Coming to Tufts

March 29 Event Open to Public

Community members are invited to attend a special reading and book signing by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove. Ms. Dove was the U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993-1995 and Special Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress bicentennial in 1999/2000 and, from 2004-2006, served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia. She won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book Thomas and Beulah. Her many other collections of poetry include Sonata Mulattica, American Smooth, On the Bus with Rosa Parks, Mother Love, Grace Notes, Museum, The Yellow House on the Corner and Selected Poems.

She has received numerous awards and honors: a 1996 National Humanities Medal from the White House, the 1997 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, the 2001 Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award in the Literary Arts, the 2003 Emily Couric Leadership Award, the 2006 Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service, the 2009 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, the 2009 International Capri Award, the 2010 Ambassador Award from the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers and the 2010 Ohioana Award for Sonata Mulattica, which was also included on Barnes and Noble’s “Best of 2009″ list as the year’s “Best Poetry Collection.”

The event is organized by the Center for the Humanities at Tufts and is taking place on Tuesday, March 29 from 5:30-6:30PM at the Alumnae Lounge in Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Avenue.

– Information from Tufts University