Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
In 2020, we were treated to new works by such tried and true poets as Margaret Atwood, Nikki Giovanni and Barbara Kingsolver. This year, we rejoice in a new book by Rita Dove. All of these authors have much in their hearts and pens to teach readers and budding poets of all ages. A collective bow to Dove for delivering in 2021. Her words are valuable ANY TIME. But now, this year, seems to be the perfect and right time.
In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Ve...






















