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Forum From the Archives: Poet Rita Dove Offers a ‘Playlist for the Apocalypse’

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🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Rita Dove, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry and the nation’s first Black poet laureate, has returned with a new volume of poems titled “Playlist for the Apocalypse.” It’s Dove’s first book in 12 years -- in part due to a health battle with multiple sclerosis that she reveals and poignantly reflects on in a sequence called “Little Book of Woe.” Both personal and political, Dove’s poems also meditate on American life today, in all its strife, uncertainty, complexity and beauty. Dove joins us to talk about the book and her return to writing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner has a new book of poetry, her first

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in 12 years, where she reflects on our changing nation and reveals that she has multiple

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Rita Dove, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the nation's first black poet laureate,

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has returned with a new collection of poems titled Playlist for the Apocalypse.

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It's Dove's first book in 12 years, where she reveals having multiple sclerosis, and reflects on our chaotic and complex nation, Rita Dove, welcome to Forum.

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