Dolores Kendrick

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]

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

1. "Dolores Kendrick", Smithsonian, Annacostia Community Museum.
2. http://dc.gov/DC/DCARTS/About+DCARTS/Who+We+Are/Poet+Laureate
3. The 78th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
4. Dolores Kendrick page at Kore Press.
5. Dolores Kendrick biography.
6. Author information at Peter E. Randall Publisher.

External links

• Megan Buerger (September 2, 2011). "D.C. Poet Laureate Dolores Kendrick wants to rejuvenate poetry’s place". The Washington Post.
• "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.