21. Rita Dove www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dove/dove.htm Similar pages VG Artist Biography dove, RitaRita dove was born in 1952 in Akron, Ohio. Her father was a research chemist at the Goodyear plant in Akron and her mother, a homemaker. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dove/dove.htm

Rita Dove (1952- ) An Interview with Dove: On the Genesis of "Parsley" On the Origins of "Parsley" Dove on Reading "Parsley" at the White House Helen Vendler On "Parsley" and on Dove’s Redefining of the Lyric ... External Links Prepared and Compiled by Edward Brunner Return to Modern American Poetry Home Return to Poets Index

22. A Rita Dove Page The Circle Association s. rita dove. rita dove PAGE. CONTENTS of this site. CIRCLE LITERATURE PAGES. Maya Angelou Gwendolyn Brooks Lucille Clifton http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/dove.html

prize The Circle Association's Rita Dove RITA DOVE PAGE CONTENTS of this site C IRCLE L ITERATURE PAGES Maya Angelou Gwendolyn Brooks Lucille Clifton Paul Laurence Dunbar ... Ismael Reed For more African American poetry go to Snally Gaster's AFRICAN AMERICAN PHAT POETRY BOOK PHAT POETRY LINKS C ONTENTS an interview with Ms. Dove CONTACT WORK Hade's Pitch Sonnet in Primary Colors My Mother Enters the Work Force The Boast ... CONTACT This page was inspired by and is dedicated to Gloria Watkins Aniebo Williams.

23. Women Of Color Women Of Word -- African American Female Playwrights - Rita Dove rita dove. rita dove The Darker Face of Earth. Obviously as a black woman, I am concerned with race But certainly not every poem of mine mentions the http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/dove.html

women of color women of words rita dove The Darker Face of Earth "Obviously as a black woman, I am concerned with race... But certainly not every poem of mine mentions the fact of being Black. There are poems about humanity, and sometimes humanity happens to be black. I cannot run from, I won't run from any kind of truth" Washington Post April 27, 1987 original photo taken from the following website courses.lib.odu.edu/litfest/22nd/dove22.html

24. Rita Dove — Infoplease.com rita dove August 28, 1952. (the African American poet was born on this day; (poet rita dove will present The Darker Face of the Earth with her. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0816001.html

Site Map FAQ in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Spelling Checker Daily Almanac for Jan 26, 2008 Search White Pages Skip Navigation Home Almanacs ... Word of the Day Editor's Favorites 2007 Year in Review Black History Month Leap Year Martin Luther King Day ... 2008 Calendar Search: Infoplease Info search tips Search: Biographies Bio search tips google_ad_client = 'pub-1894504138907931'; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 240; google_ad_format = '120x240_as'; google_ad_type = 'text'; google_ad_channel =''; google_color_border = ['336699','B4D0DC','DFF2FD','B0E0E6']; google_color_bg = ['FFFFFF','ECF8FF','DFF2FD','FFFFFF']; google_color_link = ['0000FF','0000CC','0000CC','000000']; google_color_url = ['008000','008000','008000','336699']; google_color_text = ['000000','6F6F6F','000000','333333']; Encyclopedia Dove, Rita Dove, Rita, Ten Poems, was published in 1977. Her verse is at once concise, precise, and evocative. History as seen from an African-American perspective is perhaps her most important theme: the history of her country, as in the slavery poem sequence of The Yellow House on the Corner Thomas and Beulah (1986), her grandparents' life story in verse. In her many collections, Dove also writes compellingly of mother-daughter relations, e.g.

25. Lady Freedom Among Us For information about rita dove, see http//www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/dove.html. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/fourmill/dove.html

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26. Rita Dove Interview -- Academy Of Achievement rita dove It was a gradual thing. It really wasn t until I was in college. When I was in college, I took creative writing courses and I began to write more http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/dov0int-1

The Arts Business Public Service Sports ... Academy Careers Select Career Actor Aerospace Engineer Animator Architect Art Curator Artist Astronaut Astronomer Athlete Aviator Ballerina Basketball Coach Basketball Player Beekeeper Biographer Broadcast Journalist Cartoonist Chemist Choreographer Dancer Director Dog Sledder Entrepreneur Ethnobotanist Explorer Farmer Figure Skater Film Producer Filmmaker Financier Geneticist Historian Investment Banker Journalist Lawyer Marine Biologist Medical Researcher Mountaineer Molecular Biologist Military/Soldier Museum Director Musician Novelist Painter Pastor Philanthropist Physicist Pilot Poet Politician Record Producer Scientist Screenwriter Singer Surgeon/Medical Doctor Teacher Theatrical Director Writer If you like Rita Dove's story, you might also like: Oprah Winfrey Ben Carson Story Musgrave Amy Tan and John Updike Rita Dove's recommended reading: Arabian Nights Rita Dove also appears in the videos: Justice and the Citizen: A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Vol. 2 So, You Want to Be a Writter Justice and the Citizen: From the Indian Reservation to the Inner City, The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Power of Words ... Media and Social Responsibility Teachers can find prepared lesson plans featuring Rita Dove in the Achievement Curriculum section: Martin Luther King Day The Genius of Creativity The Power of Words Related Links: Norton Poets African American Literature Our Most Viewed Honorees: Maya Angelou Benazir Bhutto Johnny Cash Benjamin Carson ... Add RSS Feeds Select Achiever

27. Rita Dove (b. 1952) rita dove (b. 1952). Contributing Editor Hilary Holladay. Classroom Issues and Strategies. In my experience, students like dove s poems, even though they http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/dover.html

Rita Dove (b. 1952) Contributing Editor: Hilary Holladay Classroom Issues and Strategies In my experience, students like Dove's poems, even though they don't fully understand them. I found that dividing the class into small groups (and providing them with several discussion questions) works well with her poems. This gives students a chance to raise issues they might not air otherwiseand accommodates poems that seem to be more about asking questions than answering them. Walking from group to group, I am able to address specific concerns without usurping control of a free-flowing discussion. Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues In her poems, Dove often distills the experiences of oppressed groups: women, blacks, and working-class Americans, among others. She does not strike a victim's pose, however. Whether she is dealing with contemporary scenes or historical events, she speaks with the calm confidence of one who knows she will be listened to. As an African-American woman who has spent virtually her entire adult life affiliated with one university or another, she represents an intriguing mix of "outsider" and "insider" perspectives. The academic life seems to have provided her with a forum quite compatible with her interest in the intersections of the personal, the political, and the intellectual. As an American who believes strongly in the value of traveling to other countries and learning other languages, Dove brings an international perspective to many of her poems as well.

28. PAL: Rita Dove (1952- ) Poet laureate rita dove. videorecording produced by Betsy McCarthy; directed by Joseph Camp; a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc.; http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/dove.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 10: Rita Dove (1952- ) The Rita Dove HomePage Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-Present MLA Style Citation of this Web Page ... Home Page Source: Inside UVA - RD Primary Works The yellow house on the corner: poems. Carnegie-Mellon UP, 1980. PS3554 .O884 Y45 Fifth Sunday: stories. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1985 (1990 printing) PS3554 .O884 F54 Thomas and Beulah: poems. Carnegie-Mellon UP, 1986. PS3554 .O884 T47 Grace notes: poems. NY: Norton, 1989. PS 3554 .O884 G7 Through the ivory gate: a novel. NY: Vintage Books, 1993. PS3554 .O884 T48 Selected poems. NY: Vintage Books, 1993. PS3554 .O884 A6 Poet laureate Rita Dove. Also Museum, The Darker Face of the Earth: A Verse in Fourteen Scenes, Mother Love: Poems, The Poet's World, On the Bus with Rosa Parks, Selected Bibliography 1980-Present Pereira, Malin.

29. Librarian Of Congress Appoints Rita Dove Poet Laureate Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced the appointment of rita dove to be the Library s seventh Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/1993/93-071.html

The Library of Congress The Library Today News All Library of Congress Pages Public Affairs Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington, DC tel (202) 707-2905 fax (202) 707-9199 e-mail pao@loc.gov May 19, 1993 Press Contact: John Sullivan (202) 707-9216 Lucy Suddreth (202) 707-9191 Librarian of Congress Appoints Rita Dove Poet Laureate Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced the appointment of Rita Dove to be the Library's seventh Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. She will take up her duties in the fall, opening the Library's annual literary series on October 7 with a reading of her work. Ms. Dove succeeds Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, Howard Nemerov, Mark Strand, Joseph Brodsky, and most recently, Mona Van Duyn. Of his appointment, Dr. Billington said, "I take much pleasure in announcing the selection of a younger poet of distinction and versatility. Having had a number of Poet Laureates who have accumulated multiple distinctions from lengthy and distinguished careers, we will be pleased to have an outstanding representative of a new and richly variegated generation of American poets. Rita Dove is an accomplished and already widely recognized poet in mid- career whose work gives special promise to explore and enrich contemporary American poetry." The second woman in the post since the title "Poet Laureate" was added in 1985 to the title "Consultant in Poetry," Ms. Dove succeeds Ms. Van Duyn and six other women, all major poets, who served in the earlier role as poetry consultant: Leonie Adams, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bishop, Josephine Jacobsen, Maxine Kumin, and Gwendolyn Brooks.

30. Rita Dove Biography - Biography.com Learn about the life of rita dove at Biography.com. Read Biographies, watch interviews and videos. http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9278390

31. Akron Women's History • Rita Dove In 1993 rita dove was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, becoming the youngest person and http://www3.uakron.edu/schlcomm/womenshistory/dove_r.htm

Rita Dove, 1952- In 1993 Rita Dove was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, becoming the youngest person and first African American to receive the highest honor in American letters. Born in Akron in 1952, Dove graduated summa cum laude from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1973 before spending two semesters as a Fulbright scholar at Universitate Tubingen in Germany. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1977 from the University of Iowa and has since received 20 honorary doctorates from various universities throughout the United States. She was a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1987 for her work on her 1986 book "Thomas and Beulah." Dove is a Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she lives with her husband, German writer Fred Viebahn, and daughter, Aviva. She is the author of several plays, musical collaborations and books including On the Bus with Rosa Parks Mother Love Grace Notes (1989); and

32. United States Of Poetry: The Land And The People They re a fresh packet of chalk, dreading math work. They were masculine toys. They were tall wishes. They were the ribs of the modern world. rita dove. http://www.worldofpoetry.org/usop/land3.htm

Silos Like martial swans in spring paraded against the city sky's shabby blue, they were always too white and suddenly there. They were never fingers, never xylophones, although once a stranger said they put him in mind of Pan's pipes and all the lost songs of Greece. But to the townspeople they were like cigarettes, the smell chewy and bitter like a field shorn of milkweed, or beer brewing, or a fingernail scorched over a flame. No, no, exclaimed the children. They're a fresh packet of chalk, dreading math work. They were masculine toys. They were tall wishes. They were the ribs of the modern world. Rita Dove

33. Rita Dove, "Parsley" rita dove On Reading Parsley at the White House From rita dove, Selected Poems (New York Pantheon Books), 1983. Copyright COPY; 1980, 1983 by http://www.starve.org/teaching/intro-poetry/parsley.html

"Parsley" by Rita Dove (First published in 1983) Click here for a guide to the hypertext version of this poem Rita Dove: "On the Genesis of 'Parsley'" Rita Dove: "On Reading 'Parsley' at the White House" 1. The Cane Fields There is a parrot imitating spring in the palace, its feathers parsley green. Out of the swamp the cane appears to haunt us , and we cut it down. El General searches for a word ; he is all the world there is. Like a parrot imitating spring, we lie down screaming as rain punches through and we come up green out of the swamp, the cane appears and then the mountain we call in whispers Katalina The children gnaw their teeth to arrowheads There is a parrot imitating spring. El General has found his word: perejil Who says it, lives . He laughs, teeth shining out of the swamp. The cane appears in our dreams, lashed by wind and streaming And we lie down. For every drop of blood there is a parrot imitating spring Out of the swamp the cane appears. 2. The Palace The word the general's chosen is parsley. It is fall, when thoughts turn

34. Painted Voices - Rita Dove Her third collection of lyrical poetry, Thomas Beaulah, won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1987, making dove the first African American to win the award http://www.black-collegian.com/african/painted-voices/dove.shtml

Post Resume Job Tools Graduate Study Career Center ... Aerospace Corp First Semester Super Issue Monthly Issue Features Countdown to Graduation Depression On Campus How to Write a Winning Resume The On-Campus Interview ... African-American History Rita Frances Dove Born on August 28, 1952 in Akron, OH, Dove attended the Miami University in Oxford, OH as well as the University of Ohio Her third collection of lyrical poetry, Thomas Beaulah, won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1987, making Dove the first African American to win the award since Gwendolyn Brooks won in 1950. In addition to being a Fullbright Scholar, Dove has won a National Endowment for the Arts Award and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. In 1989, Dove became Professor of English at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Most significantly, Dove was the youngest ever, second woman, and first African-American Poet Laureate of the United States of America. She held this title from 1993 to 1995. Mr. Fletcher welcomes your comments and feedback Simply click on the name of the Painted Voice you'd like to view: Maya Angelou Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

35. Reading The Scars: Rita Dove's The Darker Face Of The Earth - Critical Essay | A Reading the Scars rita Doves The Darker Face of the Earth Critical Essay from African American Review in Reference provided free by Find Articles. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_1_34/ai_62258911

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36. Rita Dove News - The New York Times News about rita dove. Commentary and archival information about rita dove from The New York Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/rita_dove/index.htm

@import url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/topic/screen/200704/topic.css); Get Home Delivery Log In Register Now Home Page ... Times Topics Saturday, January 26, 2008 Times Topics World U.S. N.Y. / Region ... D > Dove, Rita E-MAIL Save Rita Dove News about Rita Dove, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. ARTICLES ABOUT RITA DOVE Newest First Oldest First Page: By EMILY NUSSBAUM In these poems by Rita Dove, glamour is two-faced: at once a mask and a form of resistance. November 21, 2004 MORE ON RITA DOVE AND: POETRY AND POETS REVIEWS BOOKS AND LITERATURE PUBLIC LIVES; Music Scene Finally Catches Up to a Horn Player By AMY WALDMAN OLU DARA is trying to get the red out of his eyes. It is 1 p.m., but he was out until daybreak, listening to music at St. Nick's Pub. Now he is in his Harlem apartment, a few blocks away, trying to recover. He moves like a cat, slipping around the room in baggy jeans and socks. His face is narrow and unlined, keeping his age 60 a well-guarded secret. His hands are large and beautiful. His lips, unlike those of many trumpeters, are smooth and unswollen. April 20, 2001

37. Rita Dove Born 1952 in Akron, Ohio, rita dove served as the Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant in Poetry at the United States Congress. http://blackhistorypages.net/pages/rdove.php

Home Index Links Search ... Contact Us Rita Dove (b. 1952) Born 1952 in Akron, Ohio, Rita Dove served as the Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant in Poetry at the United States Congress. She was the youngest person and the first African American to be appointed to this prestigious office. After stellar academic performances, she embarked on her literary career, which can be truly described as illustrious. She has been widely acclaimed, won top honors and major prizes in her field, and produced an impressive body of work that includes poetry, novels, short stories and musical text. Ms. Dove's honors include Fulbright, Guggenheim and Mellon fellowships and writer-in-residence at Tuskegee Institute and the National Humanities Center. She has been a member, as well as chairperson of numerous editorial and advisory boards; and has been awarded 20 honorary doctorates. Ms. Dove has published six volumes of poetry, which include Thomas and Beulah , drawn from the experiences of her grandparents who migrated from the South during the Great Migration of the early twentieth century. Thomas and Beulah earned her the Pulitzer Prize and, in so doing, she became the second African American poet (after Gwendolyn Brooks) to win the coveted prize. Other publications include a book of short stories, a novel

38. Rita Dove - Poetry Archive rita dove (b. 1952) was encouraged by her parents to read widely from a young age and she explored all that the local library in Akron, Ohio, had to offer. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=6719

39. Heath Anthology Of American LiteratureRita Dove - Author Page Former U.S. poet laureate rita dove has an international poetic vision. The settings of her enigmatic lyrics move from Ohio to Germany to Israel; http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contempora

Site Orientation Heath Orientation Timeline Galleries Access Author Profile Pages by: Fifth Edition Table of Contents Fourth Edition Table of Contents Concise Edition Table of Contents Authors by Name ... Internet Research Guide Textbook Site for: The Heath Anthology of American Literature , Fifth Edition Paul Lauter, General Editor Rita Dove (b. Former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove has an international poetic vision. The settings of her enigmatic lyrics move from Ohio to Germany to Israel; the time frames shift from the present to a past both historical and personal. In a single volume, slaves, biblical characters, mythological figures, and members of Dove’s own family stand side by side. Although she has been rightly celebrated as an eloquent African American female voice, her frequently shifting viewpoint suggests that she sees her work transcending race and gender as well as time and place. Born in 1952 in Akron, Ohio, Dove was the second of four children in a middle-class family. Both her paternal grandfather and her father worked for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron. Her father, Ray Dove, earned a master’s degree and became the company’s first black chemist, though at the time of his oldest daughter’s birth he was still restricted to running the company elevator. Rita Dove attended the public schools in Akron and then enrolled at Miami University in Ohio, where she graduated

40. Rita Dove, Poems By Rita Dove, Biography Of Rita Dove, Poetry By rita dove biography, mother love by rita dove, rita dove poems, through the ivory gate rita dove, rita dove loose ends, rita dove poem analysis, http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove.html

Rita Dove AfroPoets.Net Famous Black Writers o Home o Poetry Board o PoeticQ.com - Famous Writers Gallery o PoeticSpace.com - MySpace For Poets... Picture Brief Bio Rita Dove was born in the year 1952 in the city of Akron, Ohio. Her father was a research chemist at the Goodyear plant in Akron and her mother, a homemaker. As a child, the young Dove had a particular fondness and passion for books and said that her parents encouraged her to read anything that she pleased; her parents valued and understood the importance of an education. Dove went on to graduate summa cum laude from Miami University of Ohio, and then to study German at the UniversitÉt TÄbingen, where she would become a Fulbright Scholar. She also received her Masters of Fine Arts degree at the University of Iowa. It was there where she met her husband to be, German novelist and playwright Fred Viebahn. Together, the two currently reside in Charlottesville, Virginia with their daughter Aviva. She is presently a Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia where she teaches creative writing. Poems - 16 in all Rita Dove Used Afield Rusks History ... MrAfrica@AfroPoets.Net

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