Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, Columbia University's Translation Center Award, the Commonwealth Club of California's Poetry Medal, the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award, and a Pushcart Prize, among other honors. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, and numerous anthologies. She has been Visiting Associate Professor in creative writing at U.C. Berkeley and is on the faculty of University of San Francisco's Master of Arts in Writing program. The Voice of the 21st Century designed to explore the reading and writing of contemporary American poetry. The course will take place on Thursdays, from 3 to 5 p.m., September 14 to December 7.
Space is limited.
Co-sponsored by the Anne Frank Exhibit, the Episcopal Churches of Tucson, the University of Arizona Departments of English and Judaic Studies, the Humanities Program, The College of Humanities, and the UA Poetry Center. Saturday, November 11 Rita Dove at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove will speak at the sixth annual Arizona Humanities Day program in Tempe. Tickets for the event can be purchased in advance. Sponsored by the Arizona Humanities Council.