​Office of the Poet Laureate

A comprehensive strategy that developed year-round programming for Poet Laureate Dolores Kendrick focused on putting poetry on the national stage in Washington, DC, for five years. Dolores Kendrick was an American poet and served as the second Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia. Her book The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women won the Anisfield-Wolf Award.

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