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The Broad Stage presents two United States poet laureates, both Pulitzer Prize winners, in Rita Dove and Tracy K. Smith: Poetry at the Crossroads, on Thursday, May 20 at 6pm PT, presented in partnership with esteemed Los Angeles based publisher Red Hen Press. It is moderated by interdisciplinary creative, activist and educator Amber Flame. Rita Dove and Tracy K. Smith will share their thoughts on the crossroads of poetry that we now find ourselves in as a new generation of poets build on and elevate the form whose foundation is made of, in part, these two poets themselves. Dr. Kate Gale, Co-Founder and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, said, Poetry is entered through the doors of the imagination; we see what has been done and we see what can be. Rita Dove and Tracy K. Smith have redefined what we can imagine.

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