Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1:30pm

Rita Dove, former US Poet Laureate and 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, received the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the National Medal of Arts from President Obama. Her most recent honors include the 2023 Honorary National Book Award, a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and the 2019 Wallace Stevens Award, and her most recent books are Playlist for the Apocalypse and Collected Poems 1974-2004. The song cycle A Standing Witness, with composer Richard Danielpour, premiered recently at the University of Chicago, Tanglewood, and the Kennedy Center. Rita Dove teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.