The Altadena Library is pleased to announce the new Poet Laureate for the Altadena Library District will be Linda Dove.
The official passing of the laurels will take place on Sat., April 21 at 2 PM at the library’s annual Friends sponsored program, "Poetry and Cookies."
Dove holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature and most recently taught at Yavapai College in Arizona where she directed the creative writing program. She is the author of In Defense of Objects (Bear Star Press, winner of the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Award, 2009) and O Dear Deer, (Squall Publishing, winner of the Eudaimonia Poetry Review Chapbook Prize, 2011). Poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and were a finalist for the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America. She lives in Altadena, California, with her husband, daughter, and two Jack Russell terriers, and has been active in local organizations, such as the Altadena garden co-op RIPE, the community food bank, and with an Altadena-based Girl Scouts troop.
This event is free and will take place at Altadena Senior Center located at 560 East Mariposa Street, just west of the main Altadena Library. For more information please call 626 798 0833 or check the library’s website athttp://altadenalibrary.org.
