The 2012 Lorraine W. Frank Lecture & Humanities Awards

Featuring
Rita Dove
Sonata Mulattica

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Tempe Mission Palms
60 E. 5th St.
Tempe, AZ 85281

5:30 to 6:30 P.M. - Reception
$50 per person
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6:30 to 8:30 P.M. - Lecture & Awards
FREE & Open to the Public

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In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Arizona Humanities Council is proud to present Rita Dove as the keynote speaker for the 2012 Lorraine W. Frank Lecture. Rita Dove will share poems from her most recent book, Sonata Mulattica, about a young mulatto violinist's encounters with Beethoven.

Discussing the research that went into the book, she will reveal how she came to be uniquely suited to the task of rescuing the mixed race violinist George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower from the shadows of history, and how history comes alive through art.

Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995. Among her many honors are the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, the 1996 Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities and the 2006 Common Wealth Award. In 1996, President Bill Clinton bestowed upon her the National Humanities Medal. From 1981 to 1989, Rita Dove taught creative writing at Arizona State University. She currently is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA

For more information, contact Julie Gavin
at 602-257-0335 x25 or jgavin@azhumanities.org

2012 Humanities Awards

The 2012 Humanities Awards honoring individuals, organizations, or businesses for their contribution and advancement of the humanities will be presented at the Lecture.

The two awards given are the Dan Shilling Public Humanities Scholar Award which recognizes a humanities scholar who has enhanced public awareness and understanding of the role that the humanities play in transforming live and strengthening communities and the Juliana Yoder Friend of the Humanities Award recognizes individuals, organizations or businesses that have made a lasting contributions to the cultural life of Arizona through their active support of and involvement in promoting the humanities.

Nomination Submission Deadline - Friday, December 16, 2011

Click here for more information about the awards and nomination process.