Dolores Kendrick
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-Wolfe Award.Biography
Kendrick was a 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.
Kendrick died at her Washington, D.C. home on November 7, 2017, aged 90, from complications of cancer.Works
- Through the Ceiling, Paul Breman Limited, 1975
- Now Is the Thing to Praise, Lotus Press, 1984,
- The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women, Phillips Exeter Academy Press, 1990,
- Why the woman is singing on the corner: a verse narrative, Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2001,
