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Obama hails White House poetry night with prose
Top of the TicketDemocrat admits he wrote two poems in college, declines to read them.... -
Common, Elizabeth Alexander headline White House 'Evening of Poetry,' to be streamed live Wednesday
Jacket CopyTonight's White House poetry event, which includes rapper Common, poets Billy Collins, Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove and the singer Aimee Mann, can be streamed online.... -
Stephen King's favorite book of 2009 and other author picks
Jacket CopyNew Yorker contributors, including Stephen King, share their favorite books of the year on the New Yorker website. Perhaps it's not surprising that King goes with a ghost story -- but as this is the New Yorker, he picks one...... -
Carol Houck Smith dies at 85; editor worked with distinguished poets, authors
Washington PostCarol Houck Smith, who edited generations of the nation's most distinguished poets and authors, died Nov. 28 or 29 at her home in New York. She was 85. The medical examiner has not yet determined the cause of death, her legal executor said. Smith...Tags: Book, Salt, Retirement, Poetry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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'Sonata Mulattica: Poems' by Rita Dove
Sonata Mulattica
Poems
Rita Dove
W.W. Norton: 232 pp., $24.95
There was once a time when celebration of black achievement in the humanities, arts and sciences was limited to Black History Month and recitations at black churches. But given the widely...Tags: Book, Tom Stoppard, Black History, Poetry, Death
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Original site for Rita Dove topic gallery.