Rita Dove
In 1993, Rita Dove was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, making her the youngest person – and the first African-American – to receive this highest official honor in American Poetry. She served 1993-1995. In 1999 she was reappointed Special Consultant in Poetry for 1999/2000, The Library of Congress Bicentennial year. From 2004-2006, she served as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia. She is a Pulitzer Prize winner for “Thomas and Beulah” (1987), author of numerous poetry books, a novel, short stories, a play, and is editor of “The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry.” Her honors include the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama the only poet ever to receive both medals as well as the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poe
Part of the
Lions in Winter festival sponsored by the EIU Department of English Co-sponsored by Broward County Library, Broward Public Library Foundation, Inc., and Florida Center for the Book. Free and open to the public.
Join Joy Harjo, a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation and current U.S. poet laureate, in a virtual conversation, as she reads works from her latest book
An American Sunrise: Poems and has a moderated Q+A discussion.
In 2019, Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to
hold the position. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Harjo is an internationally known award-winning poet, writer, performer, and saxophone player of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation.
Gorman, who read a poem at President Biden's inauguration, has previously performed five original commissioned poems for "CBS This Morning."
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Studium Generale with Joy Harjo
National Poet Laureate, author, and acclaimed musician, Joy Harjo, will read poetry then join in conversation with students from the First Nations Club at Peninsula College. Click here to register.
The visit was made possible through generous contributions to the Peninsula College Foundation and is being offered in partnership with ʔaʔk̓ʷustəƞáwt̓xʷ House of Learning, Peninsula College Longhouse and The First Nations Club.
no words cried out, know fully from the broken heart of our nation, as those of a poem called the names. written by the united states poet laureate, billie collins. he wrote it a year after the attacks and dedicated it simply, to those who died and to their survivors. the last verse reads as follows: names, etched on the head of a pin one name spanning a bridge another, undergoing a tunnel the blue name, needled into the skin names of citizens, mothers and fathers, the bright-eyed daughter the quick son alphabet of names in a greenfield names in the small tracks of birds names lifted from a hat or balanced on the tip of the