Rita Dove - Wikipedia
WEBRita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86).
Rita Dove | Poetry Foundation
WEBAuthor of a novel, a book of short stories, essays, and numerous volumes of poetry, among them the National Book Award finalist and NAACP Image Award winner Collected Poems 1974–2004, she also edited The Best American Poetry 2000 and the Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry (2011).
Rita Dove | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica
WEBRita Dove, American poet, writer, and teacher who was the first African American to serve as poet laureate of the United States (1993–95). Her poems often centered on family life and personal struggle, addressing the larger social and political dimension of the Black experience primarily by indirection.
About Rita Dove | Academy of American Poets
WEBRita Dove - The author of numerous collections of poetry, Rita Dove served as the US Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995 and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2005 to 2011.
Rita Dove - Poems, Books & Parsely - Biography
WEBApr 2, 2014 · Writer Rita Dove was the youngest person and the first African American to be appointed Poet Laureate Consultant by the Library of Congress.
Rita Dove | Academy of Achievement
WEBFeb 4, 2022 · Today, all Americans who love poetry may feel they know Rita Dove. In addition to her writing, and her television, theater and music projects, she holds the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
Rita Dove | Library of Congress
WEBRita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1952. She is the author of 11 collections of poetry, most recently “Playlist from the Apocalypse: Poems” (2021). Since 1989, Dove has taught at the University of Virginia, where she is currently the …
Rita Dove | Folger Shakespeare Library
WEBRita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. A 1970 Presidential Scholar, she attended Miami University of Ohio, Universität Tübingen in Germany, and the University of Iowa, where she earned her creative writing MFA in 1977.
Rita Dove | Poetry Center
WEBRita Dove received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Thomas and Beulah and served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993–1995. Spanning forty-plus years with translations on all continents, her oeuvre includes many genres; besides her numerous poetry collections – most recently Playlist for the Apocalypse – she has authored short stories ...
Leading Us to Revelation: On Rita Dove - Poetry Foundation
WEBLeading Us to Revelation: On Rita Dove. By Jericho Brown. Rita Dove won the Pulitzer Prize when I was in elementary school, and she was the US poet laureate by the time I was in high school. From the first time a teacher told me Dove’s name, I have made it my duty to be a student of her work.
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