Dolores Kendrick - February 23, 2005

Date
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UA Poetry Center

Reading Series
Location
Modern Languages Auditorium
Dolores Kendrick

Dolores Kendrick reads poems from Now is the Thing to Praise (1984), The Women of Plums (1989), and Why the Woman is Singing on the Corner (2001), as well as new and uncollected work.

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Welcome and Introduction
Description

by Geta Leseur-Brown

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Introductory Remarks and "The Drowned River"
Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Kendrick, Dolores. "The Drowned River." Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present. Ed. Joanne V. Gabbin. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2004.

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"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Hate"
Description

Published version bears the title "Hate."

Citation

Kendrick, Dolores. "Hate." Washington Dossier May 1981: 11. Print.

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"The Cleaning Woman: Hattie Elder"
Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Kendrick, Dolores. "The Cleaning Woman: Hattie Elder." Ocho. Ed. Grace Cavalieri. 12 (2007): 42-44. Print.

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"Intermezzo: My Mother Listens To Cavalleria Rusticana"
Citation

Ramey, Lauri and Paul Breman, eds. The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium. Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2008.

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"Vivaldi Dent"
Description

Unpublished.

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"Winter Morning Holding my Wife"
Description

Unpublished; written by an unnamed friend of Ms. Kendrick's.

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"The Loss of Little Things"
Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Kendrick, Dolores. Now is the Thing to Praise. Detroit, MI: Lotus Press, 1984.

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"Garrah is about to die," "Phelia remembers," and "The city corner"
Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Kendrick, Dolores. Why the Woman is Singing on the Corner. Portsmouth, NH: Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2001.

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"To Market, to Market" and "Sidney, Looking for Her Mother..."
Description

"Sidney, Looking for Her Mother..." differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Kendrick, Dolores. The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women. New York: Phillips Exeter Academy Press, 1989.

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Track Title
"Polly and Platt"
Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Kendrick, Dolores. The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women. New York: Phillips Exeter Academy Press, 1989.

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Track Title
"Peggy in Killing"
Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Kendrick, Dolores. The Women of Plums. New York: Phillips Exeter Academy Press, 1989.

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"Hattie on the Block"
Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Kendrick, Dolores. The Women of Plums. New York: Phillips Exeter Academy Press, 1989.

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