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Poet Rita Dove to give free reading at Emory on Feb. 28
Poet Rita Dove will give a free reading on Feb. 28, 4pm at Emory's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove will give a free reading at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on the Emory University campus at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016.
Tickets are not required, but seating will be limited. Books and a limited-edition broadside will be for sale at the reading, with a signing immediately after.
Dove served as U.S. poet laureate from 1993 to 1995 – the youngest person and the first African American to hold that particular title – and as Virginia’s poet laureate from 2004 to 2006. Her work is known for its lyricism and beauty, as well as its sense of history and political scope.
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The Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts is located at 1700 N. Decatur Rd., Atlanta, GA 30322. Parking is available in the Fishburne and Lowergate South decks. For event-related information, contact Julie Braun at jkbraun@emory.edu. More details: http://bit.ly/rita-dove-reading-emory. (Photo by Fred Viebahn).