1. Rita Dove - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952 as the daughter of the first African American research chemist who broke the race barrier in the tire industry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Dove

Rita Dove From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Rita Frances Dove (born August 28 in Akron Ohio , USA) is an American poet and author In 1987, she became the second African American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize (after Gwendolyn Brooks in 1950). From 1993 to 1995, she served as the first Black and the youngest Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress Contents Life and career Works and Publications Awards Received Bibliography ... edit Life and career Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952 as the daughter of the first African American research chemist who broke the race barrier in the tire industry. Her mother, Elvira Dove nee Hord, had been an honors student in high school and loved to read literature a passion her daughter would share with her early on. A 1970 Presidential Scholar as one of the 100 top American high school graduates that year, Rita Dove graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Miami University in 1973 and received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1977. In 1974/75 she held a Fulbright Scholarship at the Eberhard Karls University of T¼bingen in Germany . She received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and served as Poet Laureate of the United States / Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress from 1993-1995; 1999/2000 she was Special Bicentennial Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, and from 2004-2006 she was Poet Laureate of Virginia. In 1993, at age 40, Dove was elected poet laureate of the United States, making her both the youngest and the first African American author to hold that position. As poet laureate she concentrated on spreading the word about poetry and increasing public awareness of the benefits of literature. Since 1989 she has been teaching at the

2. Rita Dove Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995. Born in 1952 in Akron, Ohio, http://www.aalbc.com/authors/ritadove.htm

document.write(''); Rita Dove African American Literature Book Club - The #1 Site for "Readers of Black Literature" Enter your search terms Submit search form Search the Web AALBC.com Thumpers Corner Book Search Home Back Author Home Up ... Advertise Rita Dove Click name for titles Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995. Born in 1952 in Akron, Ohio, she has published six poetry collections, among them Thomas and Buelah, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. She is also the author of the novel Through the Ivory Gate and the drama The Darker Face of the Earth, which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1996 and was subsequently produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and other theaters. Her song cycle Seven for Luck, with music by John Williams, was first performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in 1998. Ms. Dove's honors include Fulbright, Guggenheim, and Mellon fellowships, sixteen honorary doctorates, the NAACP Great American Artist Award, Glamour magazine's "Woman of the Year" Award, the New York Public Library's "Literary Lion" citation, the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Acievement, as well as residencies at Tuskegee Institute, the National Humanities Center, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Villa Servelloni in Bellagio, Italy. In 1996 she received both the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities and the Charles Frankel Prize/National Medal in the Humanities, and in 1997 she was honored with the Sara Lee Frontrunner Award and the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award.

3. :: Norton Poets Online :: Rita Dove Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995 and as Special Consultant for the Library of Congress bicentennial in 1999/2000. http://www.nortonpoets.com/dover.htm

Rita Dove Links Books credit: Fred Viebahn :: Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995 and as Special Consultant for the Library of Congress bicentennial in 1999/2000. Born in 1952 in Akron, Ohio, she has published six poetry collections, among them Thomas and Beulah , which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. She is also the author of the novel Through the Ivory Gate and the drama The Darker Face of the Earth , which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1996 and was subsequently produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Royal National Theater in London, and other theaters. Her song cycle Seven for Luck , with music by John Williams, was first performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in 1998, and she collaborated with John Williams and Steven Spielberg for the White House Millennium production on New Year's Eve, 1999. Dove's honors include Fulbright, Guggenheim, and Mellon fellowships, numerous honorary doctorates, the NAACP Great American Artist Award, Glamour Poetry magazine, and the 2001 Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award. She writes a weekly column, "Poet's Choice," for

4. WOSU Presents Ohioana Authors | Rita Dove Rita Dove is a rarity in many ways, one being that she’s a poet with a high public profile. She was the youngest and first AfricanAmerican Poet Laureate of http://www.ohioana-authors.org/dove/index.php

Ohioana Authors list Highlights of a Life The Ohio Connection The Works of Rita Dove ... Awards and Honors Beacon Journal Christian Science Monitor Carrying on the tradition of poetry and telling unknown stories are things to which Rita Dove is devoted. This devotion won her the Pulitzer Prize for Thomas and Beulah, Music on the Show Artist : Fats Waller CD Title : 1939 Transcriptions, Vol. 2 Song : Naxos, 2003 Voice of Rita Dove: Sheri Walker, Assistant to the General Manager, WOSU Listen to the NPR 820 radio feature. top of page The WOSU Stations, in partnership with the Ohioana Library, and with support from the Ohio Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities, developed Ohioana Authors For more information, contact Susan Meyer The WOSU Stations The mission of the Ohioana Library Association is to recognize and encourage the creative accomplishments of Ohioans, to preserve and to expand a permanent archive of books, sheet music, manuscripts, and other materials by Ohioans and about Ohio, and to disseminate information about the work of Ohio writers, musicians, and other artists to researchers, schools, and the general public.

5. Rita Dove --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Rita Dove African American writer and teacher who was poet laureate of the United States (199395). http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9002902/Rita-Dove

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7. Borzoi Reader | Authors | Rita Dove Rita Dove s weekly column in the Washington Post Rita Dove s Academy of American Poets page Rita Dove Homepage at University of Virginia http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/dove/poem.html

Selected Poems Through the Ivory Gate Rita Dove's weekly column in the Washington Post Official Rita Dove site Rita Dove's Academy of American Poets page ... Christian Science Monitor The Secret Garden I was ill, lying on my bed of old papers, when you came with white rabbits in your arms; and the doves scattered upwards, flying to mothers, and the snails sighed under their baggage of stone . . . Now your tongue grows like celery between us; Because of our love-cries, cabbage darkens in its nest; the cauliflower thinks of her pale, plump children and turns greenish-white in a light like the ocean's. I was sick, fainting in the smell of teabags, when you came with tomatoes, a good poetry. I am being wooed. I am being conquered by a cliff of limestone that leaves chalk on my breasts. Sunday Greens She wants to hear wine pouring. She wants to taste change. She wants pride to roar through the kitchen till it shines like straw, she wants lean to replace tradition. Ham knocks in the pot, nothing but bones, each with its bracelet of flesh. The house stinks like a zoo in summer

8. Rita Dove Biography And Summary Rita Dove biography with 40 pages of profile on Rita Dove sourced from encyclopedias, critical essays, summaries, and research journals. http://www.bookrags.com/Rita_Dove

Literature Guides Criticism/Essays Biographies Research Anything: All BookRags Literature Guides Essays Criticism Biographies Encyclopedias History Encyclopedias Films Periodic Table ... Amazon.com Rita Dove Summary Order the Rita Dove Summary Pack Rita Dove About 40 pages (12,058 words) in 5 products "Rita Dove" Search Results Contents: Biographies Works by Author Summaries Biography Name: Rita Frances Dove Birth Date: August 28, 1952 Place of Birth: Akron, Ohio, United States Nationality: American Ethnicity: African American Gender: Female Occupations: poet, writer, educator summary from source: Biography of Rita Frances Dove 1,731 words, approx. 6 pages summary from source: Biography of Rita Frances Dove 4,548 words, approx. 15 pages summary from source: Biography of Rita Dove 2,655 words, approx. 9 pages Award-winning writer Rita Dove boasts an impressive list of achievements. She is the creator of over ten books of poetry and fiction, including Thomas and Beulah which won the Pulitzer Prize when Dove was just thirty-five. She was appointed U.S. poet... summary from source: Biography of Rita (Frances) Dove 2,606 words, approx. 9 pages

9. New York State Writers Institute - Rita Dove Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, the youngest poet and first African American to be so honored. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/dove_rita.html

RITA DOVE October 6, 2004 (Wednesday) 4:15 p.m. Informal Seminar 8:00 p.m. Reading Both in Recital Hall, PAC UAlbany, Uptown Campus Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, the youngest poet and first African American to be so honored. In 1999, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington appointed Dove a Special Consultant in Poetry (along with fellow poets W. S. Merwin and Louise Glück), to assist with the celebration of the Library of Congress's Bicentennial Year. "A remarkable book ," and said that, "Dove has planed away unnecessary matter: pure shapes, her poems exhibit the thrift that Yeats called the sign of a perfected manner." "In her meditations on Rosa Parks and other civil rights veterans, the poet's eye and voice, trained for the nearly invisible detail, rescue characters from obscurity by illuminating their ordinariness." Authors/Events Index Visiting Writers Series Classic Film Series

10. Rita Dove's Poetry: Accessible And Engaging Rita Dove served as US Poet Laureate (19931995). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, she is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia. http://poetry.suite101.com/article.cfm/rita_dove

GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-7332027313721357", "com_readingandliterature_top_ATF_468x060"); GA_googleAddAttr("language", "com"); GA_googleAddAttr("section", "readingand"); GA_googleAddAttr("topic", "Poetry"); GA_googleAddAttr("category", "american-p"); GA_googleAddAttr("writer", "388085"); hiring freelance writers today's articles sign in Home ... American Poetry Rita Dove's Poetry Rita Dove's Poetry Accessible and Engaging Linda Sue Grimes Feb 20, 2007 Rita Dove served as U.S. Poet Laureate (1993-1995). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, she is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia. " . . . Poems of victimage, told from the viewpoint of the victim alone, are the stock-in-trade of mediocre protest writing, and they appear regularly in African-American literature." Biography Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1952. In 1970, she was a Presidential Scholar, graduating at the top of her high school class. She earned her B.A. summa cum laude from Miami Univerity, Oxford, Ohio, and her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Her poetry collection Thomas and Beulah was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987.

11. Dove Rita - AEI Speakers Bureau Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995 and is currently Poet Laureate of the http://www.aeispeakers.com/speakerbio.php?SpeakerID=1354

12. Rita Dove - Poems, Biography, Quotes Free collection of all Rita Dove Poems and Biography. See the best poems and poetry by Rita Dove. http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/rita_dove

Famous Poets and Poems: Home Poets Poem of the Month Poet of the Month ... Love Poems Search for: Poets Poems FamousPoetsAndPoems.com Poets / Rita Dove Biography Poems Quotes Books ... Post Your Poems Popular Poets Langston Hughes Shel Silverstein Pablo Neruda Maya Angelou ... All Poets See also: Love Poems and Quotes Poets by Nationality African American Poets Women Poets ... Meaning of Names Rita Dove (1952 - present) Enlarge Picture View Rita Dove: Poems Quotes Biography Books ... Resources Rita Dove, an exceptional poet, story writer, and script writer, started seriously making her career as a writer in 1980 when she wrote her first book, The Yellow House on the Corner. She became very successful for many reasons. In her childhood days, Dove loved to read for countless hours on end. Her passion for reading, and for books in general, led her to want to write herself. Her parents encouraged her to read as much as she could, which helped her develop as a writer of both poems and stor.. Continue.. Some of Rita Dove Poems Adolescence II The Bistro Styx View all Rita Dove Poems Quote from Author I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

13. Rita Dove Rita Dove photo Rita Dove. Background information. Born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. Loves music, has played the cello in the age of 10, and sings too. http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215687/Rita Dove.htm

Rita Dove Background information Born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. Loves music, has played the cello in the age of 10, and sings too. Studied at Miami University of Ohio, and received her Masters of Fine Arts degree and the University of Iowa. Married Fred Viebahn and they have a daughter, Aviva; they live in Charlottesville, Virginia. Commonwealth Professor of English and the University of Virginia where she teaches creative writing and poetry. Well-Known Works The Yellow House on the Corner Thomas and Beulah Adolescence I, II, and III The Bistro Styx And many others. Adolescence III With Dad gone, Mom and I worked The dusky rows of tomatoes. As they glowed orange in sunlight And rotted in shadows, I too Grew orange and softer, swelling out Starched cotton slips. The texture of twilight made me think of Lengths of Dotted Swiss. In my room I wrapped scarred knees in dresses That once went to big-band dances;

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15. AGNI | 56 | Poetry | Weathering Out By Rita Dove Rita Dove teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. Two of her books, The Yellow House on the Corner and Museum, have been published by http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-dove.html

Weathering Out by Rita Dove to look for work, her coffee flushed with milk, outside autumn trees blowsy and dripping. so she floated from room to room, houseshoes flapping, navigating corners in wonder. When she leaned against a doorjamb to yawn, she disappeared entirely. Last week they had taken a bus at dawn to the new airdock. The hangar slid open in segments and the zeppelin nosed forward in its silver envelope. The men walked it out gingerly, like a poodle, then tied it to a mast and went back inside. Beulah felt just that large and placid, a lake; she glistened from cocoa butter smoothed in when Thomas returned every evening nearly and say: though to her it was more the pok-pok-pok of a fingernail tapping a thick cream lampshade. Sometimes during the night she woke and found him asleep there and the child sleeping, too. The coffee was good but too little. Outside between the cobblestones hung stubbornly on

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17. Rita Dove@Everything2.com by Rita Dove I prove a theorem and the house expands the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling, the ceiling floats away with a sigh. http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Rita Dove

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19. PRX » Pieces » Rita Dove Rita Dove discusses her poetry collections AMERICAN SMOOTHincluding the housefire that led her to ballroom dancingand MOTHER LOVE, which uses the myth http://www.prx.org/pieces/4209

Top Navigation Help Sign Up Home Pieces ... Networks Browse pieces by length, topic, and format all search options PRX Home Pieces Rita Dove Rita Dove Review Audition Download License/Download Part of Series New Letters on the Air Length Licensor New Letters on the Air Producer(s) New Letters on the Air Formats Interview Topics Entertainment Literature Women Produced March 30, 2005 Added to PRX Listen: You need to sign up or login to listen to pieces on PRX. Summary: Rita Dove discusses her poetry collections AMERICAN SMOOTHincluding the housefire that led her to ballroom dancingand MOTHER LOVE, which uses the myth of Persephone to show the love between mothers and daughters. Details For Stations Reviews Licensed By Website: http://www.newletters.org Additional Credits and Funding: Produced at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Production help from Alex Smith, Dennis Conrow, Eric Mater, and Kansas Public Radio. Partial financial assistance provided by the Missouri Arts Council. Thanks also to the Hall Center for the Humanities.

20. Rita Dove www.people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b/ rita dove The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems. http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b/

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