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Chubb Fellowship to host reading by former U.S. poet laureate
Rita Dove, the youngest person ever named poet laureate of the United States and the first African American to hold
that honor, will visit Yale as the next Chubb Fellow on Wednesday, Nov. 7.
Dove will give a free, public reading of her poetry at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 127,
Yale Law School, 127 Wall St.
Dove is the Commonwealth Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.
She served two terms as poet laureate and consultant to the Library of Congress,
1993-1995. Among her many distinctions are the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry,
the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, the National Humanities Medal, the
Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award and 21 honorary doctoral degrees. In
2006 she received the Common Wealth Foundation’s Award of Distinguished
Service, together with broadcast journalist (and Yale alumnus) Anderson Cooper,
former U.S. Senator and pioneering astronaut John Glenn, playwright and director
Mike Nichols and peace activist Queen Noor of Jordan.
Her poetry collections include “The Yellow House on the Corner,” “Museum,” “Thomas
and Beulah,” “Grace Notes,” “Selected Poems,” “Mother
Love” and “On the Bus with Rosa Parks.” She has also published
a book of short stories, “Fifth Sunday”; a novel, “Through
the Ivory Gate”; and collected essays under the title “The Poet’s
World.” Her most recent poetry collection, “American Smooth,” was
published in 2004. Dove’s play, “The Darker Face of the Earth,” had
its world premiere in 1996 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and was subsequently
produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Royal National Theatre
in London and the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis.
Dove was invited to read her poem “Lady Freedom Among Us” at the
ceremony commemorating the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Capitol and the restoration
of the Freedom Statue to the Capitol’s dome in 1993. For “America’s
Millennium,” the White House New Year’s celebration in 2000, she
was invited to read one of her poems at the Lincoln Memorial, accompanied by
music by John Williams. That performance was filmed for Steven Spielberg’s
documentary, “The Unfinished Journey.” Dove also wrote the text for
composer Alvin Singleton’s “Umoja — Each One of Us Counts,” narrated
by Andrew Young and performed at Atlanta Symphony Hall during the opening weekend
of the Centennial Olympic Summer Games in 1992.
The Chubb Fellowship is devoted to encouraging and aiding Yale students interested
in the operations of government, culture and public service. Established in 1936
through the generosity of Hendon Chubb (Yale 1895), the program is based in Timothy
Dwight College. Each year three or four distinguished women and men are appointed
as visiting Chubb Fellows. While at Yale, they have close, informal contact with
students and deliver a public lecture. Former Chubb Fellows include Presidents
Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and Raul Alfonsín of Argentina; prime ministers
Clement Atlee (United Kingdom) and Mario Soares (Portugal); authors Toni Morrison
and Carlos Fuentes; choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov; journalist Walter Cronkite
and feminist Gloria Steinem.
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