Dolores Kendrick
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Dolores Kendrick (born September 7,1927) is an American poet, and Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia.[1][2] Her book The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women won the Anisfield-Wolfe Award.[3]
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Life
Kendrick is Vira I. Heinz Professor Emerita at Phillips Exeter Academy.[4] She adapted The Women of Plums for the theater, which won the 1997 New York New Playwrights Award.[5] She adapted The Women of Plums into a CD, The Color of Dusk, with Wall Matthews and Aleta Greene.[6]
Works
- Through the Ceiling, Paul Breman Limited, 1975
- Now Is the Thing to Praise, Lotus Press, 1984, ISBN 978-0-916418-54-0
- The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women, Phillips Exeter Academy Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-939618-08-8
- Why the woman is singing on the corner: a verse narrative, Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2001, ISBN 978-1-931807-00-5
References
External links
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- "The 3-minute interview: Dolores Kendrick", The Washington Examiner, Scott McCabe, 01/31/08
- A Poem for Mom, Set to Her Favorite Opera, NPR, May 9, 2005
- "Review: Dolores Kendrick's The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women (William Morrow Company, Inc. 1989)"
- "Poetry of Levine & Kendrick". The Library of Congress Webcasts.
