Pulitzer-Winning Poet to Visit Tufts

Pulitzer Prize-winner and former national Poet Laureate Rita Dove will make an appearance at Tufts later in March.  

Dove will hold a special reading followed by a Q&A and book-signing at 5:30 p.m. on March 29 at Aidekman Arts Center on the Tufts campus.

Dove was the U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993-1995 and Special Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress bicentennial in 1999/2000 and, from 2004-2006, served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia.

She won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book Thomas and Beulah. Her many other collections of poetry include Sonata Mulattica, American Smooth, On the Bus with Rosa Parks, Mother Love, Grace Notes, Museum,The Yellow House on the Corner and Selected Poems.    

This information was provided by Katie Cinnamond in the Tufts University public relations department.