1. Rita Dove RITA DOVE Seven for Luck, seven poems by Rita Dove with music by John Williams,The Boston Symphony, Cynthia Haymon, soprano, John Williams, conducting. http://www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/dove.html

R ITA D OVE Commonwealth Professor Poetry Degrees M.F.A. Iowa 1977 B.A. (summa cum laude) Miami U. 1973 On-line Projects Lady Freedom Among Us (poem). The University of Virginia Libraries, 1994. Books The Best American Poetry 2000 (editor). Scribner, 2000. Breakfast of Champions (selected poems in Hebrew translation). Keshev/Tel Aviv, 2000. On the Bus with Rosa Parks (poems). W.W. Norton, 1999. Thomas et Beulah (poems - bilingual edition, English-French), L'Harmattan, 1999. Evening Primrose (poems). Tanheim-Santrizos, 1998. 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. 3rd, expanded edition 2000. 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.

2. Voices From The Gaps: Rita Dove RITA DOVE b.1952. PROJECT INFO. Overview and purpose of the program. Awards. RitaDove was born in the year 1952 in the city of Akron, Ohio. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/DOVErita.html

PROJECT WRITERS CLASSROOM SUBMIT ... BY BIRTHPLACE OR RESIDENCE BY RACIAL OR ETHNIC BACKGROUND BY SIGNIFICANT DATES RITA DOVE b.1952 PROJECT INFO Overview and purpose of the program Awards List of contributors Permissions list ... Contact us (please note that we have no contact with the writers and cannot provide contact information) Shape the lips to an o , say a That's island One word of Swedish has changed the whole neighborhood. When I look up, the yellow house on the corner is a galleon stranded in flowers. Around it the wind. Even the high roar of a leaf-mulcher could be the horn blast from a ship as it skirts the misted shoals. We don't need much more to keep things going. Families complete themselves and refuse to budge from the present, the present extends its glass forehead to sea (backyard breezes, scattered cardinals)

3. Rita Dove Rita Dove (1952 ). An Interview with Dove On the Genesis of Parsley On the Origins of Parsley Dove on Reading Parsley 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

4. An Interview With Rita Dove Rita Dove On the Genesis of Parsley . Excerpts from an interview with Dove byStan Sanvel Rubin and Judith Kitchen in 1985. 154155. Return to Rita Dove. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dove/interview.htm

Rita Dove: On the Genesis of "Parsley" Excerpts from an interview with Dove by Stan Sanvel Rubin and Judith Kitchen in 1985. Rubin: ["Parsley"] is based on this historical incident, but you get as imaginative as a novelist, if I might say so. You have Trujillo’s mother die baking "skull-shaped candies" on the Day of the Dead. Is this, in fact, a product of research? Dove: No, it isn’t. In fact, the only thing in that poem which is a product of research is the actual fact that Trujillo made this happen and that the Haitians worked in the cane fields. And then the fact that when someone cannot roll an "r," it usually comes out as an "l"; hence, you get "Katalina" instead of "Katarina." But the rest of it – what goes through Trujillo’s mind as he tries to find a way to kill someone – is my own invention. … Dove: I do, especially in Museum [the collection in which "Parsley" appeared]. When I started Museum Dove: That poem took a long time to write! I started with the facts and that in a certain way almost inhibited me, the fact that he thought up this word, was already so amazing that I had a hard time trying to figure out how to deal with it. So when I wrote the poem I tried it in many different ways. I tried a sestina, particularly in the second part, "the palace," simply because the obsessiveness of the sestina, the repeated words, was something I wanted to get – that driven quality – in the poem. I gave up the sestina very early. It was too playful for the poem. A lot of the words stayed – the key words like

5. New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers In America Chapter 20 -- Rita Dove Chapter 20 Rita dove rita Dove, Rita Dove (1952 ). Known primarilyfor her poetry, Rita Dove has also written novels and short stories. http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/quashie/chapter20/custom1/deluxe-conte

Chapter 20: Rita Dove Rita Dove Rita Dove Known primarily for her poetry, Rita Dove has also written novels and short stories. She was born in Akron, Ohio, where her father was the first black chemist to work in the tire and rubber industry. She graduated with honors from Miami University of Ohio in 1973. In 1977, she finished a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Dove won a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her well-known book Thomas and Beulah (1986). She has published several other books of poetry, including The Yellow House on the Corner Museum Grace Notes (1989), and Mother Love (1995). Her poetry often deals with her own history and the history of the world. Among other works, Dove has written a novel, Through the Ivory Gate (1992), and a short-story collection, Fifth Sunday (1985). She has taught at Arizona State University and the University of Virginia. She was named poet Laureate of the United States in 1993, the first African American to hold this title. Author Links Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color: Rita Dove The text of a poem from Dove’s volume The Yellow House on the Corner accompanies the biography and strong critical overview of Dove’s life and work. Extensive bibliographical citations are included.

6. :: Norton Poets Online :: Rita Dove Rita Dove, Grace Notes (1989). read Summit Beach, Turning Thirty, I ContemplateStudents Bicycling Home, and Old Folks Home, Jerusalem . Also by Rita Dove. 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

7. Tolson, Melvin Beaunorus,Nelson, Raymond,Dove, Rita Title Harlem Gallery and Other Poems of Melvin B. Tolson Subject Literature Fiction Author Tolson Melvin Beaunorus Nelson Raymond dove rita Dale, Helen http://www.entertainbooks.com/Tolson-Melvin-Beaunorus-Nelson-Raymond-Dove-Rita/H

Tolson, Melvin Beaunorus,Nelson, Raymond,Dove, Rita Title: "Harlem Gallery" and Other Poems of Melvin B. Tolson Author: Tolson Melvin Beaunorus Nelson Raymond Dove Rita Dale, Helen Co-Authoring in th... Villanueva, Victor Cross-Talk ... Berghoff, Beth,Egawa, Kathryn ... Boran, Sibel,Comber, Barbara C... ... Partner

8. DOVE RITA CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION (in MARION) dove rita CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION. Crossing color transcultural spaceand place in Rita Dove's poetry, fiction, and drama / Therese Steffen. http://js-catalog.cpl.org:60100/MARION?S=DOVE RITA CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION

9. Gale - Free Resources - Poet's Corner - Biographies - Rita Dove Rita Dove. Also known as Rita (Frances) Dove, Rita Frances Dove BornAugust 28,1952 in Akron, Ohio, United States Nationality American OccupationWriter. http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/poets/bio/dove_r.htm

Quick Title Search Press Room About Us Contact Us Site Map ... Browse Our Catalog document.write(url); Free Resources Reference Reviews Marketing for Libraries Black History Month ... Women's History Month Rita Dove Read the poem "Geometry" Also known as: Rita (Frances) Dove, Rita Frances Dove Born: August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, United States Nationality: American Occupation: Writer BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY In The Poet's World (1995), a collection of essays written during her l993-95 term as the United States' seventh Poet Laureate, Rita Dove makes a surprising declaration, "My pleasures are taken in the intimate details of life, the miracles of the ordinary." Dove's artistic range seems boundless, fed by her knowledge of world history and literature. But a generous spirit guides her intellectual curiosity: she does not want to learn facts or to observe art and artifacts; she wants to engage with the world and its people. Whether writing about herself, her grandparents, an ancient Chinese princess, a German woman widowed during World War II, mythological characters, the blues singer Bessie Smith, or even a fossilized fish, Dove brings readers closer to ourselves, our world, and each other. She has read widely and travelled extensively, but she also grounds her work in her own intimate, ordinary experiences as a daughter, granddaughter, wife, mother, African American, woman and teacher. As she observed in a l991 interview published in

10. Painted Voices - Rita Dove Rita Frances Dove Born on August 28, 1952 in Akron, OH, Dove attended theMiami University in Oxford, OH as well as the University of Ohio. http://www.black-collegian.com/african/painted-voices/dove.shtml

Search Job Bank Post Resumé My Account For Employers ... Cornerstones Pick up a free copy of THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine from your career services office, or subscribe here 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.

11. Borzoi Reader | Authors | Rita Dove Rita Dove, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, wasborn and raised in Akron, Ohio. She has published the novel http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/dove/

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 Rita Dove , Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, was born and raised in Akron, Ohio. She has published the novel Through the Ivory Gate , a collection of stories, a verse drama, a book of essays and five books of poetry, among them Thomas and Beulah , which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. The recipient of numerous literary fellowships and awards, she is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia and lives near Charlottesville with her husband, Fred Viebahn, and their daughter, Aviva. Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people. Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems comprises Dove's collections The Yellow House on the Corner , which includes a group of poems devoted to the themes of slavery and freedom; Museum , intimate ruminations on home and the world; and finally

12. Rita Dove Rita Dove Click name for titles. Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the UnitedStates and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995. http://secure01.win.net/aalbc/ritadove.htm

Home Up Poetry CDs Black Arts Movement ... Henry Dumas [ Rita Dove ] jaci Lisa Jackson Javette Jenkins Gabrielle Johnson ... Buy Any Book 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.

13. Rita Dove Rita Dove, Lady Freedom Among Us (1993). Click here to read the fulltext of the poem. Cl ick here to read the University of Virginia's http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LIBERTY/dove.html

Rita Dove, "Lady Freedom Among Us" (1993) Click here to read the full text of the poem. Cl ick here to read the University of Virginia's hypertext version of Dove's poem, printed in its limited edition, handcrafted typeface, and created for U.Va.'s celebration of the acquisition of its four millionth volume. (Note: This version will take longer to load). As preparations rolled for the 200th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol, Thomas Crawford's Lady Freedom was brought down for a make-over: After two centuries of standing atop of the Capitol dome, exposed to weather and pollution, she needed major repairs. Months before she was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States in 1993, Rita Dove read about Lady Freedom's temporary removal in the newspapers: "I thought it was a marvelous irony and jotted down a few lines in my notebook" ("In Honor," 2). Months later, and still remembering those first few jots, Dove found herself writing about Lady Freedom for the Capitol's bicentennial occasion. Through the course of her reparations, Lady Freedom was stationed in a parking lota humbling change from her lofty perchnear to Dove's Library of Congress office. For a few short months, Dove had the rare opportunity to take at look at Crawford's rendition of lady liberty up close. Her scrutiny and sharp perception grew into a poem about Lady Freedom's layered meanings: "I wanted to convey some sense of the beleaguered status of freedom," says Dove

14. Rita Dove Rita Dove (1952). Lady Freedom Among Us, by Rita Dove, University of VirginiaThis site allows the viewer to both read and hear a Dove poem read by herself. http://library.marist.edu/diglib/english/americanliterature/20thc-americanpoets/

15. Rita Dove Rita Dove. Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. Copyright © 1986Rita Dove From Thomas and Beulah CarnegieMellon University Press. http://www.alittlepoetry.com/dove.html

Rita Dove Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. After receiving her B.A. at Miami University of Ohio, she studied modern European literature at the University of Tübingen in Germany as a Fullbright/Hays fellow. She then received her M.F.A. at the University of Iowa. This poet and her extensive body of work has been widely honored. For her book Thomas and Beulah , Ms. Dove won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. (She was one of the youngest recipients and was the second African-American to receive this honor.) Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995. Ms. Dove is well known for her efforts in promoting the arts through all mediums and for her wish to see poetry as a "household word." A sample of this brilliant poet's work follows. You can learn more about Ms. Dove and view her extensive bibliography by following the links provided at the end of this page. Straw Hat In the city, under the saw-toothed leaves of an oak overlooking the tracks, he sits out the last minutes before dawn, lucky to sleep third shift. Years before

16. Rita Dove Rita Dove Seven for Luck, seven poems by Rita Dove with music by John Williams,The Boston Symphony, Cynthia Haymon, soprano, John Williams, conducting. 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.

17. 1995--Rita Dove RITA DOVE The Darker Face of the Earth Crossroads Theatre Company, NewBrunswick, NJ. Rita Dove's extraordinary first play, The Darker http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/theater/fnap/dove.html

RITA DOVE The Darker Face of the Earth Crossroads Theatre Company, New Brunswick, NJ Rita Dove's extraordinary first play, The Darker Face of the Earth , is a beautiful poem-play based on Sophocles' Greek tragedy King Oedipus . The action is set on a Southern plantation during the slavery era, where Amalia, the plantation owner's wife, gives birth to a child of color. As in the original myth, the baby, Augustus, is ordered to be killed, but grows up instead and, like Oedipus, returns to the place of his birth to face the realities of slavery and an inexplicable fascination with the mistress of the plantation. A slave uprising brings Augustus, the leader of the revolution, face to face with his identity. Using a Greek chorus with African rhythms, the play unfolds inexorably, relating the story of the man who kills his father, loves his mother, and weaves his political and personal tragedy on the loom of fate. Rita Dove, U.S. Poet Laureate and Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia, was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1952. She has published five books of poetry, among them Thomas and Beulah , which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of a novel

18. Rita Dove Rita Dove (1952 ) - Modern America - 1914 to present. 5) While often Rita Dovewrites about herself, she has received virtually no criticism for this. http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/edit/dove.htm

Rita Dove (1952- ) - Modern America - 1914 to present Address: Department of English, Wilson Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, U.S.A. by Andy Stamper, student, University of North Carolina at Pembroke Biography: American poet and writer Rita Dove became the second African- American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for her collection of poetry Thomas and Beulah in 1987. From 1993 to 1995 she was U.S. Poet Laureate. Rita Dove was born on August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio to Ray and Elvira Hord Dove. After graduating summa cum laude Dove then joined the faculty of Arizona State University in 1981 and spent 1982 as writer-in residence at Tuskegee. At Arizona State she was a member of two literary panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and worked on the board of Associate Writing Programs from 1985 to 1988. In 1987, Dove became a member of the Commission for the Preservation of Black Culture at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She also had editorial positions on the journals Callaloo, Gettysburg Review and Tri-Quarterly. She received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1983. From the Academy of American Poets she received the Lavan Younger Poets award in 1986. She then wrote

19. Rita Dove - The Academy Of American Poets "The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems."Category Arts Literature Authors D dove, rita......rita dove The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selectedpoems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. rita dove. http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/rdovefst.htm

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Rita Dove Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1952. Her books of poetry include On the Bus with Rosa Parks (W. W. Norton, 1999), which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Mother Love Selected Poems Grace Notes Thomas and Beulah (1986), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Museum (1983); and The Yellow House on the Corner (1980). She has also published Fifth Sunday (1985), a book of short stories; Through the Ivory Gate (1992), a novel; and The Darker Face of the Earth (1994), a verse drama; and edited The Best American Poetry 2000 . Her many honors include the Academy's Lavan Younger Poets Award, a Mellon Foundation grant, an NAACP Great American Artist award, Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, and grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She served at Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995 and is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. This bio was last updated on Nov 16, 2000.

20. A Brief Biography: A Brief Biography rita dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995. http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b

A Brief Biography: Ms. Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. A 1970 Presidential Scholar, she received her B.A. summa cum laude from Miami University of Ohio and her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She also held a Fulbright scholarship at the Universität Tübingen in Germany. She has published the poetry collections The Yellow House on the Corner Museum Thomas and Beulah Grace Notes Selected Poems Mother Love On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999), a book of short stories, Fifth Sunday (1985), the novel Through the Ivory Gate (1992), essays under the title The Poet's World (1995), and the play The Darker Face of the Earth , which had its world premiere in 1996 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and was subsequently produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Royal National Theatre in London, and other theatres. Seven for Luck , a song cycle for soprano and orchestra with music by John Williams, was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in 1998. For "America's Millennium", the White House's 1999/2000 New Year's celebration, Ms. Dove contributed in a live reading at the Lincoln Memorial, accompanied by John Williams's music a poem to Steven Spielberg's documentary The Unfinished Journey . She is the editor of Best American Poetry 2000

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