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]

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