Dolores Kendrick was born in DC, and educated in DC Public Schools, at Miner Teacher’s College, and Georgetown University, where she earned a Masters Degree. She was appointed DC’s second Poet Laureate and served from 1999 until her death.
Kendrick is the author of five books of poems: Rainbow on Fire (posthumously published by Black Classic Press), Why the Woman is Singing on the Corner (2001), The Women of Plums (1990), Now is The Thing to Praise (1984), and the limited edition chapbook Through the Ceiling (1975). The Women of Plums, her best-known work, won the Anisfield-Wolfe Book Award and was adapted for the stage, winning a New York Playwrights Award in 1997.
Kendrick was part of a group of educators who founded School Without Walls, a DC Public High School. She taught for two decades at Phillips Exeter Academy, and was named Vira I. Heinz Professor Emerita. In 2002, she was awarded a Fulbright Award for Outstanding Achievements in Education and Literature. Other honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the George Kent Award for Literature.
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Dolores Kendrick
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