Rita Dove

Rita Dove, a Pulitzer Prize winner and a former U.S. poet laureate, most recently published the collection Playlist for the Apocalypse. She teaches at the University of Virginia.

Poem

Happy End

Shh! Rise and be quick about it. Gather your things. Brother, sister: You were older but I was the strong one, humming one leg, two, now socks, now shoes— all our Continue reading