The Joshua Ringel Memorial Reading: Rita Dove

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For the 2025 Joshua Ringel Memorial Reading, the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) welcomes featured poet Rita Dove. Dove served as U.S. poet laureate from 1993 to 1995. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award, she received the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Bill Clinton and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama.

The Joshua Ringel Memorial Poetry Reading honors CTY alumnus and avid poetry lover Joshua Ringel and his parents, Mel and Barbara. The event supports the arts in Baltimore by bringing a distinguished poet to the city each year for a free public poetry reading.