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TITLE: Poetry of Philip Levine and Delores Kendrick
SPEAKER: Philip Levine, Dolores Kendrick
EVENT DATE: 05/24/2007
RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Poets Philip Levine and Delores Kendrick read selections from their work. Accompanying Kendrick during her recital were musicians from the Capitol City Symphony: harpist Michael O'Harlin, violinists Maurice Gatewood and Masaya Uchino, cellist Patrick Moan and violist Victoria Gau.
Speaker Biography: Philip Levine is the author of 16 books of poetry, including "Breath" (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004); "The Mercy" (1999); "The Simple Truth" (1994), which won the Pulitzer Prize; "What Work Is" (1991), which won the National Book Award; "New Selected Poems" (1991); "Ashes: Poems New and Old" (1979), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the first American Book Award for Poetry; "7 Years From Somewhere" (1979), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; and "The Names of the Lost" (1975), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Levine has also published a collection of essays, "The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography" (1994), edited "The Essential Keats" (1987), and co-edited and translated two books: "Off the Map: Selected Poems of Gloria Fuertes" (with Ada Long, 1984) and "Tarumba: The Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines" (with Ernesto Trejo, 1979). Levine has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize from Poetry, the Frank O'Hara Prize and two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships. For two years he served as chair of the Literature Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts, and he was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2000. He lives in New York City and Fresno, California, and teaches at New York University.
Speaker Biography: Dolores Kendrick is the second person (following Sterling Brown) to be appointed Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia. Among many awards and honors, she has been inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for writers of African-American descent and the D.C. Hall of Fame in 2005. She is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Her books include "The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women" (Morrow, 1989), which she adapted for theatrical performance in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and "Why the Woman Is Singing on the Corner: A Verse Narrative" (Randall, 2001), which was selected one of five best books of poetry for 2001.