Rita Dove
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Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
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Dove and then-national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman at the "Furious Flower" gala in Washington, D.C., September 27, 2019
Poet Laureate Rita Dove's definition of a library at the entrance to the Maine State Library in Augusta, Maine. Dove's definition reads "The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.".In their own words 6
I am Rita Dove,the beautiful dove. See my black neck,see my speck. My ass is not so much crackedbut i want to get out now. The poet, am I.Am me.
America, 1988
The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
Rita Dove's definition of the world "library", as displayed on a sign at the entrance of the Maine State Library in Augusta, Maine.
I am deeply grateful to the women who really blazed the way-poets like Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath and Maxine Kumin.
1992 interview included in Conversations with Rita Dove Edited by Earl G. Ingersoll (2003)
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Anthony FauciAlso won honorary doctorate from Emory University
César PelliAlso won honorary doctor of Yale University
Michael RostovtzeffAlso won honorary doctor of Harvard University
David McCulloughAlso won Charles Frankel Prize
Andrew GroveAlso won Heinz Award
Madeleine L'EngleAlso won National Humanities MedalAbout this person
Rita Frances Dove 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). Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020; as of 2020, she holds the chair of Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing.
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