![]() ![]() Her song cycle Seven For Luck was set to music by John Williams and premiered by soprano Cynthia Haymon and the Boston Symphony under the composer’s baton at Tanglewood in 1998, and the following year she collaborated with John Williams and Steven Spielberg on “America's Millennium” at the Lincoln Memorial. Her song cycle A Standing Witness, with music by Richard Danielpour, was first sung by mezzo-soprano Susan Graham at The Kennedy Center, among other venues, in 2021. Her verse drama The Darker Face of the Earth had its premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1996 and was staged at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and the Royal National Theatre in London, among other places. In addition, she edited the seminal anthologies Best American Poetry 2000 and The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011). ![]() Her other books of poetry include Playlist for the Apocalypse, Collected Poems 1974–2004, Sonata Mulattica, American Smooth, On the Bus with Rosa Parks, Mother Love, Grace Notes, Museum, The Yellow House on the Corner and Selected Poems she has also published a book of short stories, Fifth Sunday, the novel Through the Ivory Gate, and a collection of her Poet Laureate lectures, The Poet’s World. Merwin-Special Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress bicentennial in 1999/2000, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004–2006. In 1987 she received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book Thomas and Beulah. Poet Laureate from 1993–1995 and-with Louise Glück and W.S. ![]()
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