Episode 1: Dolores Kendrick, DC’s First Black Woman Poet Laureate

This episode is for a podcast collaboration with the Institute for Politics Policy and History (IPPH) - the Taking Up Space Podcast. The show highlights some of Washington DC's lesser-known Black women leaders. In this first episode, I interviewed Dr. Joanne Gabbin, Professor of English at James Madison University, about DC's “first lady of poetry,” Dolores Kendrick.

Photo: C.B. Claiborne, 2004, Furious Flower Archive