Rita Dove reads at the Library of Congress

Poets Laureate reading, The Library of Congress, Jefferson Building, Coolidge Auditorium, Oct. 6, 2010.
Other readers that night were Billy Collins, Daniel Hoffman, Maxine Kumin, Kay Ryan, Charles Simic and Mark Strand. In the final scene they were joined by Librarian of Congress James Billington, Director of Scholarly Programs Carolyn Brown and Poetry Office administrator Patricia Gray.
The balcony closeup in the introductory scenes shows the site of the Poetry Office in the "attic" of the Jefferson Building.

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