Dolores Kendrick

Dolores Kendrick (1927-2017) was an American poet born in Washington, D.C. best known for her collection The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and for serving as Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia from 1999 until her death. Anisfield-Wolf. She also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Fulbright awards, and her works including Through the Ceiling and Now Is the Thing to Praise established her as a leading voice in African American poetry.Washington Post, Poets.org.