Mon Feb 27 15:00:18 2006 Pacific Time
First African-American Poet Laureate of the United States at Cal State Los Angeles on Thursday, March 2

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- The English Department and the College of Arts and Letters at Cal State Los Angeles present the 21st Annual Jean Burden Poetry Reading featuring Rita Dove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the first African-American Poet Laureate of the United States, on Thursday, March 2, 6:30 p.m., at Cal State L.A.'s Golden Eagle Ballroom. (The reading and reception are free and open to the public, in keeping with the mission of the Jean Burden series.)