Published on Academy of American Poets (https://poets.org)
The Spring Cricket Considers the Question of Negritude (audio only)
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Author
Rita Dove
The author of numerous collections of poetry, Rita Dove served as the US Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995 and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2005 to 2011.