(ThyBlackMan.com) Rita Dove is one of the most celebrated poets of our time. As the youngest person to serve as Poet Laureate ...

When I began writing about ordinary, middle-class African Americans’ lives—especially in Thomas and Beulah, my third book of poetry, which deals with a solid lifelong marriage devoid of ...

She is also the inspiration behind a new volume of poetry by Rita Dove, a former U.S. poet laureate and winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1987, who will read from her collection at Columbia’s ...

Literature, says poet, novelist and playwright Rita Dove, will look "for different ways to distinguish itself from mass media." Damon Winter / The New York Times / Redux Rita Dove was 41 years old ...

be careful to include only details that reveal something about the poem. It is suggested that Rita Dove wrote ‘Cozy Apologia’ as a tribute to her husband American poet, Rita Dove is married to ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove, reprinted by permission of W.W. Norton and Company Inc. Note: this poem is included for ...

suggests Dove is writing about her own experiences as a writer. This intimate detail is one of the poem's strengths. It is also possible that the writer is picturing a fictional figure who shares ...

The poem has a dreamy, wandering tone Dove uses digression (deviation from the central theme), flitting from subject to subject in a dreamlike way. The use of dashes in each verse interrupts the ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. You can discover a lot about a poem by comparing it to one by another author that deals with a similar subject.

In this episode, Testament and Imtiaz Dharker discuss the poems ‘Cozy Apologia’ by Rita Dove and ‘Living Space’ by Imtiaz Dharker. Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds.