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Name
  
Dolores Kendrick

Role
  
Poet

Awards
  
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award


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Books
  
The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women

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Dolores Kendrick (born September 7,1927) is an American poet, and Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia. Her book The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women won the Anisfield-Wolfe Award.

Contents

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Life

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Kendrick is Vira I. Heinz Professor Emerita at Phillips Exeter Academy. She adapted The Women of Plums for the theater, which won the 1997 New York New Playwrights Award. She adapted The Women of Plums into a CD, The Color of Dusk, with Wall Matthews and Aleta Greene.

Works

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  • 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

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