61. Edward Byrne: "Review Of Rita Dove's 'American Smooth'" Past commentary on rita dove s poetry has frequently, and correctly, focused upon its graceful phrasing of language. As is often the case for others among http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/byrnereviewdove.html

V P R V ALPARAISO P OETRY R EVIEW Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Review of Rita Dove's Eighth Book of Poetry ~E DWARD B YRNE R ITA D OVE A MERICAN S MOOTH Rita Dove appears to have blended the lyricism which derives from her musical background with a fresh sense of movement and rhythm within the poems that owes something to her developed interest and participation in dancing. The flow of the lines in her poetry seems even more subtle, more natural, and more free than in past collections. As the definition for the book's title suggests, there is a greater attention to imitating motion that mirrors improvisation and allows individual expression. The eloquent language is accompanied by elegant pacing across the page. P ast commentary on Rita Dove's poetry has frequently, and correctly, focused upon its graceful phrasing of language. As is often the case for others among our best poets, reviewers have pointed out the lyricism and musicality evident in her carefully crafted lines, even in her more narrative poems. Indeed, given Dove's history as a trained musician and singer, not to mention the associations conveniently suggested by her last name, such comparisons between verse and song, the metrical and the musical, in her works have seemed even more natural parallels for critics to track and spotlight. In "The Black Dove," a chapter from

62. Literary Encyclopedia Rita Dove One who excels in merging these diverse discourses with style and skill is rita dove. Having forged a distinguished career over the past quarter century, http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1303

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64. Prize-winning Poet Rita Dove To Speak At Yale rita dove, the youngest person ever named Poet Laureate of the United States and the first African American to hold that honor, will visit Yale as the next http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/07-10-23-02.all.html

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65. Dove_Rita_oh rita dove, there is at least one clear sign if not of a coming rita dove was an ambitious child and a very good student; she was ranked among the top http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/litmap/dove_rita_oh.htm

Rita Dove - 1952 Akron By Mary Cameron Kitchin Sycamore High School, Cincinnati, Ohio I. Personal and Professional Biography "With the consistently accomplished work of Rita Dove, there is at least one clear sign if not of a coming renaissance of poetry, then at least of the emergence of an unusually strong new figure who might provide leadership by brilliant example" (Arnold Rampersad qtd. in Bloom 63). Born in Akron, Ohio, in 1952 ("Rita Dove" par. 1), Rita Frances Dove was the second child born to Ray A. Dove and Elvira Elizabeth Hord (Bloom 59). Elvira was a housekeeper, and Ray was the first black chemist at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron (Gates 481). Dove's childhood proved to be relatively stable; her family was " a first-generation middle-class family" (Dove qtd. in Gates 481). Rita Dove was an ambitious child and a very good student; she was ranked among the top one hundred high school seniors in the nation and was therefore invited to the White House as a "Presidential Scholar." Dove then went on to attend Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She graduated summa cum laude in 1973 and entered Tubingen University in West Germany on a Fulbright scholarship (Bloom 59).

66. TED BURKE, Like It Or Not: Rita Dove's Rage Against Complacency rita dove s poem Blues in Half Tones, 3/4 Time is a good example of this. The context is from the black experience, but she doesn t depend on every http://ted-burke.blogspot.com/2007/11/rita-doves-rage-against-complacency.html

skip to main skip to sidebar Thursday, November 1, 2007 Rita Dove's Rage Against Complacency Context is indispensable in literary interpretation, but not every poem written requires the digging in order to grasp the larger things a poet is getting at. Rita Dove's poem "Blues in Half Tones, 3/4 Time" is a good example of this. The context is from the black experience, but she doesn't depend on every reader's knowledge of black history and it's struggle for civil rights in order for them to comprehend and respond to her more generalized theme: nay-saying and apathy are killers of the soul and ambition. Her particulars happen to be black, elements with which she creates art, but the poem is written skillfully enough for readers of different cultural origins to relate to her themes and understated assertions. Meaning, as such , is not locked up in an identity-specific criteria. Dove sounds like she's talking about equivocation here, in the voice of someone responding to another's remarks or complaints about the wrongs that exist in life, both on the personal and global levels. The responding voice admits the unfairness of the wrongs that have been done, but offers a solution that equals the that one may as well make the best with the imperfect situation they're in. From nothing comes nothing

67. Rita Dove The Pleasure s In Walking Through, composition by Walter Ross to poems by rita dove, sung by rita dove, Oratorio Society, Charlottesville Performing Arts http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~sssl2000/dove.html

Rita Dove Commonwealth Professor Poetry at The University of Virginia Degrees: B.A. ( summa cum laude ) Miami 1973 M.F.A. Iowa 1977 D. Litt. (Hon.), Miami U.-1988, Knox College-1989, Tuskegee U.-1994, U. of Miami-1994, Washington U.-1994, Case Western Reserve U.-1994, U. of Akron-1994, Arizona State U.-1995, Boston College-1995, Dartmouth College-1995, Spelman College-1996, U of Penn.-1996, U. North Carolina/Chapel Hill-1997, U. Notre Dame-1997, Northeastern U.-1997, Columbia U.-1998. On-line Projects: Lady Freedom Among Us Books: On the Bus with Rosa Parks (poems). Forthcoming from W.W. Norton, April 1999. Det Rosa Er I Oss (selected poems in Norwegian translation). Det Norske Samlaget, 1996. Mother Love (poems). W. W. Norton, 1995. The Poet's World (essays). Library of Congress, 1995. The Darker Face of the Earth (verse drama). Story Line Press, 1994 and 1996. Lady Freedom Among Us (poem) Janus Press, 1994. (commissioned by the University of Virginia Library as its four-millionth volume) Selected Poems . Pantheon/Vintage, 1993.

68. African American Registry: Rita Dove, Poet Extraordinaire . . . rita dove was born on this date in 1952. She is an AfricanAmerican writer and poet. http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/2792/Rita_Dove_poet_extraordi

Rita Dove, poet extraordinaire . . . Home Donate to the Registry Benefactors What Happened on Your Birthday? ... Contact August 28 Rita Dove *Rita Dove was born on this date in 1952. She is an African-American writer and poet. From Akron, Ohio, Rita Frances Dove is the daughter of Ray and Elvira Dove. A National Merit Scholar, she graduated from Miami University in Ohio summa cum laude in 1973. She then attended the Universitaet Tuebingen in West Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship from 1974-1975. In 1977 she graduated from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA. It was in Iowa that Dove met her husband, German novelist Fred Viebahn; they married in 1979 and have one daughter, Aviva Chantal Tamu Dove-Viebahn. After publishing Ten Poems, in 1977, Dove was awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. Four years later she accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the English Department at Arizona State University (ASU). She left ASU in 1989 as Professor of English for a similar position at the University of Virginia. In 1993 she was named Commonwealth Professor of English, a position she continues to hold. That same year the Library of Congress named Dove Poet Laureate of the United States. Here, Dove became the youngest person and only African American to be named to that post, an appointment she held for two years. During her tenure she brought Crow Indian schoolchildren from Montana to read their poems at the Library of Congress, helped launch a series of public-service ads about poetry in conjunction with the Lifetime cable network, and organized other programs in an attempt to make poetry more "user-friendly." Included among her numerous awards is a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987 for Thomas and Beulah; a National Book Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; a Rockefeller Foundation Residency; a Mellon Fellowship; a Heniz Award in Arts and Humanities; an Amy Lowell Fellowship; and a Shelley Memorial Award.

69. Rita Dove « Golempoem just the sweep of Paradise and the space of a song. to count all the wonders in it. rita dove Callaloo Volume 24, Number 4, Fall 2001, pp. 999-999 http://matthewsalomon.wordpress.com/category/rita-dove/

golempoem new habitats for the poem Home About Matt Fox Trot Fridays each week to tuck in the grief, lift your pearls, and stride brush stride quick-quick with a heel-ball-toe. Smooth slow satin smile, easy as taking one day at a time: one man and one woman, rib to rib, with no heartbreak in sight- just the sweep of Paradise and the space of a song to count all the wonders in it. Rita Dove Callaloo - Volume 24, Number 4, Fall 2001, pp. 999-999 Photo credit: Dancing Close by Idandersen November 2, 2007 Posted by mattsalomon Callaloo Poetry Rita Dove ... No Comments Flash Cards In math I was the whiz kid, keeper master, my father said; the faster I answered, the faster they came. one clear bee sputtering at the wet pane. The tulip tree always dragged after heavy rain so I tucked my head as my boots slapped home. My father put up his feet after work and relaxed with a highball and The Life of Lincoln. After supper we drilled and I climbed the dark before sleep, before a thin voice hissed numbers as I spun on a wheel. I had to guess. Rita Dove Photo credit: Times-table game by Graham Chastney October 28, 2007

70. The Heinz Awards rita dove receives the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities for her success in Today, rita dove continues to write and teach at the University of http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients.asp?action=detail&recipientID=24

71. Rita Dove - Exit Poem by rita dove Exit. what it took to be a woman in this life. rita dove Copyright © 1995 Mississippi Review 7th US Poet Laureate 1993-5 http://judithpordon.tripod.com/poetry/rita_dove_exit.html

Casa Poema - Famous Poems, New Poetry, Photos and Quotes Rita Dove - Exit Home Page Poems Famous Poets Quotes ... Success! EXIT Just when hope withers, the visa is granted. The door opens to a street like in the movies, clean of people, of cats; except it is your street you are leaving. A visa has been granted, "provisionally"-a fretful word. The windows you have closed behind you are turning pink, doing what they do every dawn. Here it's gray. The door to the taxicab waits. This suitcase, the saddest object in the world. Well, the world's open. And now through the windshield the sky begins to blush as you did when your mother told you what it took to be a woman in this life. Rita Dove 7th US Poet Laureate 1993-5 Women Poets Famous American Poets Go to Home page var site="s12gracedpoet"

72. Rita Dove Lady Freedom Among Us, by rita dove, University of Virginia This site allows the viewer to both read and hear a dove poem read by herself. http://library.marist.edu/diglib/english/americanliterature/20thc-americanpoets/

Rita Dove (1952-) "Lady Freedom Among Us," by Rita Dove , University of Virginia: This site allows the viewer to both read and hear a Dove poem read by herself. The Academy of American Poets: A biography with some links to other Rita Dove sites on the web. The Rita Dove Home Page: A site that contains a brief biography as well as an extensive one. Also, this site has annotated links. Modern American Poetry, Rita Dove: This site has an interview with Rita Dove as well as a couple of commentaries.

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74. Understanding Rita Dove Understanding rita dove serves as a critical introduction to the poetry of the Pulitzer Prizewinning writer who was also the first African American poet http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2006/3637.html

Understanding Rita Dove Pat Righelato An exploration of the life and art of first African American U.S. poet laureate 5 x 7, 264 pages cloth, $34.95s About the Book About the Author Flyer Read an Excerpt ... ABOUT THE BOOK Understanding Rita Dove serves as a critical introduction to the poetry of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who was also the first African American poet laureate of the United States. Through close readings of seven poetry collections, Pat Righelato offers detailed analyses of Rita Dove's thematic concerns and artistic development while bringing to light the musical sense of form and expression of history that permeates Dove's work. While underscoring each collection's distinctive identity, Righelato explores the continuities that link volume to volume, from the earliest chapbooks to Dove's most recent collection, American Smooth Charting Dove's evolution as a poet, Righelato begins with The Yellow House on the Corner to identify motifs of the mythical, historical, familial, and autobiographical that have become the writer's artistic capital. Dove brings African American experience to the mainstream of American poetry in Thomas and Beulah and On the Bus with Rosa Parks.

75. JMU - Tribute To Gwendolyn Brooks By Rita Dove Tribute to Gwendolyn Brooks by rita dove. By rita dove Poet Laureate of the United States. How does one begin to convey the influence Gwendolyn Brooks http://www.jmu.edu/furiousflower/Dove_Tribute.shtml

Search JMU Web Find JMU People Site Index Welcome! ... SLAM JAM! PUBLISHER: Furious Flower Poetry Center MSC 1501, Harrisonburg, VA 22807 PHONE: (540) 568-2694 FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Haworth Privacy Statement Last Modified: 5/3/2005 Tribute to Gwendolyn Brooks by Rita Dove Testifying A Tribute By: Rita Dove Poet Laureate of the United States How does one begin to convey the influence Gwendolyn Brooks has had on generations-not only writers, but people from all walks of life? How can one describe the fiercely personal connection her poems make, how chronicle her enormous impact on recent literary, social, and political history? There is a tradition in the black church: we call it Testifying. It is the brave and humbling act of standing up among one's family, friends, and neighbors to bare one's soul, and to bear witness by acknowledging those who have sustained and nurtured the testifier along the way. Here, then, is my testimonial honoring Gwendolyn Brooks: Standing in front of this literary congregation as a grown woman, a woman who has entered her 40s, I feel very strange thinking that when Gwendolyn Brooks was awarded the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for "Annie Allen," her second collection of poems, I was not even, as people used to say then, "a twinkle in my daddy's eye."

76. Ohio Reading Road Trip | Rita Dove Biography By 1980, rita dove (now married to Fred Viebahn) was already garnering national press through her work in magazines and anthologies. http://www.orrt.org/dove/

Rita Dove Born: August 28, 1952 When she was eleven years old, Rita Dove came home from the library crying. When her mother asked her what was wrong, she told her that the librarians wouldn't let her read a book she wanted to read. Her mother sent her back with a note: "Let her check out any book she wants." It was this trust and encouragement that enabled Dove to become the youngest writer and first African American to be named Poet Laureate of the United States thirty years later. Even today, she names her parents as her biggest influences: "The one thing that was important was the fact that you never said, 'I don't get it, I'm going to give up.' You start small and you work at it a little bit at a time." Growing up in Akron , Ohio with three siblings (now all chemists and mathematicians), Dove spent her time reading everything on her parents' bookshelves and then going to the library for more. Although she had several inspiring teachers, she remembers relishing the fact that, in the library, she chose the books to read they weren't assigned. "I loved to write when I was a child," she says. "I wrote, but I always thought it was something you did as a child, then you put away childish things . I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers." She saw "her first live author" at a book signing on a high school field trip. That experience hinted at something for Dove: that if this seemingly normal man could be a writer, maybe she could too.

77. Creative Quotations From Rita Dove (1952-____) rita dove in quotations to inspire creative thinking. http://famouscreativewomen.com/one/2225.htm

Home Search Indexes Browse ... creative Famous Creative Women Quotations from . . . Rita Dove 1952-) born on Aug 28 US poet, educator. Her poetry in "Thomas and Beulah," was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987; chosen poet laureate at the Library of Congress in 1993. Search millions of documents for Rita Dove Creative Hats Time For Creativity Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. What's invisible sings, and we bear witness. Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation. Here's a riddle for Our Age: when the sky's the limit, how can you tell you've gone too far? If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together. Published Sources for Quotations Above: F: In "The Quotable Quotations Book," by Alec Lewis, 1980. R: A: N: In "The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya," by Terri L. Jewell, 1993. K: The New York Times Vintage Art Lofty Visions Nickelodeon Advertise Here!

78. THE ISLAND WOMEN OF PARIS (BROADSIDE). , Rita Dove - James & Mary Laurie Booksel dove, rita. Publisher Information n/p Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1990. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the author. Printed at Pentagram Press http://www.lauriebooks.com/cgi-bin/laurie/25108

THE ISLAND WOMEN OF PARIS (BROADSIDE). Dove, Rita. Publisher Information: n/p: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1990. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the author. Printed at Pentagram Press using Lutetia type set by hand. Published on the occasion of the author's reading in The Loft Mentor Series in Minneapolis on April 6, 1990. 15 x 11 inches. Fine. Selection is from GRACE NOTES (Norton, 1989). Book Id: Price: Add to Cart Search Browse Categories Antiques Art Books about Books Children's Literature ... sitemap powered by Bibliopolis

79. English Department Gallery :: 2000 Distinguished Author - Rita Dove 2000 Distinguished Author rita dove. 1 image in this album Linda Hargreaves, Lynn Hepner, Barb Stevens, Pat Coderre, rita dove, Luke http://www.textsandtech.org/english_gallery/ritadove

2000 Distinguished Author - Rita Dove 1 image in this album slideshow login Gallery: English Department Gallery Album: UCF English Department Events Linda Hargreaves, Lynn Hepner, Barb Stevens, Pat Coderre, Rita Dove, Luke Leonard, Dawn Trouard, Ginny Herrington, and Louise Williams Viewed: 1120 times. Gallery: English Department Gallery Album: UCF English Department Events Powered by Gallery RSS

80. An Interview With RITA DOVE. | Contemporary Literature (June , 1999) In the past fifteen years, rita dove has emerged as a major voice in African American and American poetry. After her initial volume, The Yellow House on the http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-496558_ITM

Home About Us AccessMyLibrary Browse ... Contemporary Literature an interview with RITA DOVE.(Interview) an interview with RITA DOVE.(Interview) Publication: Contemporary Literature Publication Date: 22-JUN-99 Author: Pereira, Malin How to access the full article: Free access to all articles is available courtesy of your local library. To access the full article click the "See the full article" button below. You will need your US library barcode or password. Bookmark this article Print this article Link to this article Email this article Digg It! Add to del.icio.us RSS Critics such as Helen Vendler and Arnold Rampersad have praised Dove's austere poetic aesthetic, noting her economy of language, attention to nuance, wide range of allusion, original and surprising images, and virtuosity. Her themes include adolescence and maturation, the underside of history, slavery, family love, identity, the language of music, and power relations inflected by race and gender. Ekaterini Georgoudaki has characterized Dove's work as "crossing boundaries" of race, gender, class, culture, and time because Dove has insistently written from a wide variety of subject positions: male, female, white American, Chinese, African American, German, the historically famous, and the unknown commoner, and in the distant past as well as the immediate present. Dove was born in 1952 and raised in Akron, Ohio. Her mother was a homemaker and her father was a chemist for Goodyear who had worked as a janitor there until upper-level jobs opened to blacks in the rubber industry. She speaks of her childhood experiences as typically middle class. She studied cello extensively (and now also plays the viola da gamba), was exposed to literature and reading in a home filled with books, and became fluent in German. An excellent student, Dove was a 1970 Presidential Scholar (one of the top one hundred U.S. high school students), went on to study English at Miami University in Ohio, and was a Fulbright scholar at the Universitat Tubingen in Germany. She attended the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop and received an M.F.A. in 1977. There she also met her husband, the German novelist Fred Viebahn. They have a daughter, Aviva, and live in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Dove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

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