Rita Dove, a reading
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove reads at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on the Emory University campus Feb. 28, 2016. This was Dove’s second reading (her first was in 2007) in the acclaimed Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series, now in its 11th season. Since its debut in 2005, the series has brought a wide range of acclaimed contemporary poets to Emory’s campus, including Lucille Clifton, Mary Oliver, Billy Collins, Natasha Trethewey, W.S. Merwin, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and Sharon Olds.
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