- Dolores Kendrick
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Dolores Kendrick is an American poet, and Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia.[1][2] Her book, The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women, won the Annisfield-Wolfe Award.[3]
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Life
She is Vira I. Heinz Professor Emerita at Phillips Exeter Academy.[4] She adapted The Women of Plums for the theater, which won the 1997 New York New Playwrights Award.[5] She adapted The Women of Plums, into a CD, The Color of Dusk, with Wall Matthews and Aleta Greene.[6]
Works
- Through the Ceiling, Paul Breman Limited, 1975
- Now Is the Thing to Praise, Lotus Press, 1984, ISBN 9780916418540
- The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women, Phillips Exeter Academy Press, 1990, ISBN 9780939618088
- Why the woman is singing on the corner: a verse narrative, Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2001, ISBN 9781931807005
References
- ^ http://anacostia.si.edu/exhibits/online_exhibitions/all_the_stories_are_true/All_the_Stories-Dolores.htm
- ^ http://dc.gov/DC/DCARTS/About+DCARTS/Who+We+Are/Poet+Laureate
- ^ http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/books/the-women-of-plums-poems-in-the-voices-of-slave-women/
- ^ http://www.korepress.org/DeloresKendrick.htm
- ^ http://www.bowzerbird.com/nationalwriterscongress/doloreskendrick.html
- ^ http://www.perpublisher.com/per45.html
External links
- Megan Buerger (September 2, 2011). "D.C. Poet Laureate Dolores Kendrick wants to rejuvenate poetry’s place". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-poet-laureate-dolores-kendrick-wants-to-rejuvenate-poetrys-place/2011/09/19/gIQAmdLTlK_story.html.
- "The 3-minute interview: Dolores Kendrick", The Washington Examiner, Scott McCabe, 01/31/08
- A Poem for Mom, Set to Her Favorite Opera, NPR, May 9, 2005
- "Review: Dolores Kendrick's The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women (William Morrow Company, Inc. 1989)"
- http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4068
Categories:- American poets
- Living people
- People from Washington, D.C.
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