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Poetry Reading: Rita Dove

Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection

March 10, 2010

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The Menil Collection presents a Poetry Reading featuring Rita Dove, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 7:00 p.m.

Esteemed American writer and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove (pictured) will read at the Menil Collection as part of the opening of the Houston Museum of African American Culture. She is the author of a dozen volumes of verse; her awards and honors include the 1987 Pulitzer Prize and Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2004–2006). Dove will read from her new book-length narrative poem, Sonata Mulaticca (2009), which re-creates the life of the biracial violinist George Bridgetower, the first performer of Beethoven’s "Kreutzer" Sonata.

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    1515 Sul Ross
    Houston, TX 77006

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    March 10, 2010

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    7:00pm

    
    

     

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