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22. Rita Dove Rita Dove. (1952). Rita Frances Dove was the first African American writer to become poet laureate. A poet laureate is a poet acclaimed http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/edison/studentsites/sites/Black History/Beth P

Rita Dove R ita Frances Dove was the first African American writer to become poet laureate. A poet laureate is a poet acclaimed as the best or most representative of a locality or group. She served as this position from 1993-1995. A lthough Rita Dove was not alive during the Civil Rights movement or Harlem Renaissance times, she still holds strong to her title being the first African American writer to become poet laureate. She's written several books, which the third one has one the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. "The poems [she writes are] from the perspective of Thomas and Beulah, who offer their observations on both personal and public issues ranging from marriage to the experiences of African Americans" (Dove 1). T o be more specific, her poems are about her daily life, family life, human experience, motherhood, and the African American civil rights movement. Rita Dove's goal is to bring her readers closer to their inner-selves, the world, and each other. Her style of writing has also a wide range. Although she is a southerner, being born in Ohio, her writing varies by humor, remorse, irony, silliness, and anything that one could possibly think of. R ita Dove is still alive to this date, and she regularly attends poet conventions (Rita Dove 1).

23. Rita Dove - The Academy Of American Poets The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems. http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/rdovefst.htm

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits poetry map ... 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.

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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.

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26. Women Of Color Women Of Word -- African American Female Playwrights - Rita Dove women of color women of words. rita dove. SELECTED ARTICLES ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Rosenberg, Judith Pierce. rita dove. Belles Lettres. 9(2)3841. 1993-1994 Winter. http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/dove2.html

women of color women of words rita dove The Darker Face of Earth BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Poet Rita Frances Dove was born August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of Ray and Elvira Dove. A National Merit Scholar, she attended Miami University in Ohio from which she graduated 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 Ms. Dove met her husband, German novelist Fred Viebahn; they married in 1979 and have one daughter, Aviva Chantal Tamu Dove-Viebahn. Having published the chapbook, Ten Poems , in 1977, Dove was awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. In 1981 she accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the English Department at Arizona State University in Tempe. She left Arizona State in 1989 with the rank of Professor of English for a position as Professor of English in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia. In 1993 she was named Commonwealth Professor of English, a position she continues to hold. That same year the Librarian of Congress named Dove Poet Laureate of the United States. 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."

27. Rita Dove's Home Page rita dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from HERE for an interview with rita dove by Robert McDowell and some 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

28. Carnegie Mellon University Press Titles include books by rita dove and others. Includes catalog and submission guidelines. http://www.cmu.edu/universitypress

29. Interview With Ms. Dove dove. On April 8, 1997, The Book Report welcomed rita dove, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, for a freewheeling conversation about the http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/dove-interview.html

an interview with Ms. Dove a mini-biography - under construction a mini-bibliography - under construction contact pagemaster prize AN INTERVIEW WITH MS. DOVE On April 8, 1997, The Book Report welcomed RITA DOVE, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, for a free-wheeling conversation about the importance of poetry in our lives. Interviewing Ms. Dove was Jesse Kornbluth (BookpgJK). Our online host was BookpgXena. Bookpg JK: Good evening, a great pleasure to have our youngest Poet Laureate with us. Rita Dove: It's great to be here. Bookpg JK: During National Poetry Month, when Allen Ginsberg dies, poetry is suddenly front page news. Is that ironic to you? Rita Dove: I wouldn't say "ironic." I'd say serendipitous. What is more ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world! And he continues to do so! There are generations who stumble across HOWL! and find it speaks to them. Yet it takes a tragedy to make people notice. Bookpg JK: It seems to me that there is a Big Topic here... Ginsberg, as you said in an interview, was a master of the first person singluar like O'Hara and Whitman and Mayakovski. This is a voice that you've said isn't completely natural to you. And yet, as Poet Laureate, your public persona - your first person singular - was the only voice most people could recognize. How was the experience of being Poet Laureate?

30. TIME 100: Rosa Parks Article by rita dove honoring Ms. Parks as one of the twenty most influential heroes and icons of the 20th century. http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html

NATION WORLD BUSINESS ARTS ... CURRENT ISSUE CORBIS Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Ala., on Dec. 21, 1956, after a Supreme Court ruling banning segregation on city public transit vehicles took effect Rosa Parks Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution By RITA DOVE Dubious Influences: Century's Villains and Antiheroes Five Captivating Romances: When Love Was the Adventure Monday, June 14, 1999 How she sat there, the time right inside a place so wrong it was ready. Rosa, in On the Bus with Rosa Parks by Rita Dove We know the story. One December evening, a woman left work and boarded a bus for home. She was tired; her feet ached. But this was Montgomery, Ala., in 1955, and as the bus became crowded, the woman, a black woman, was ordered to give up her seat to a white passenger. When she remained seated, that simple decision eventually led to the disintegration of institutionalized segregation in the South, ushering in a new era of the civil rights movement. Muhammad Ali The American G.I. Diana, Princess of Wales Anne Frank ... Bill Wilson Categories Leaders/Revol.

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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

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Dove, Rita, Dove, 1994 in full RITA FRANCES DOVE (b. Aug. 28, 1952, Akron, Ohio, U.S.), African-American writer and teacher who was poet laureate of the United States in 1993-95. Dove graduated summa cum laude from Miami University in Ohio in 1973 and studied subsequently at Tübingen University in Germany. She studied creative writing at the University of Iowa (M.F.A., 1977) and published the first of several chapbooks of her poetry in 1977. From 1981 to 1989 Dove taught at Arizona State University, leaving that post to teach at the University of Virginia. In her poetry collections, including The Yellow House on the Corner (1980) and Museum (1983), as well as a volume of short stories entitled Fifth Sunday (1985), Dove focused her attention on the particulars of family life and personal struggle, addressing the larger social and political dimensions of black experience primarily by indirection. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Thomas and Beulah (1986) is a cycle of poems chronicling the lives of the author's maternal grandparents, born in the Deep South at the turn of the century. Subsequent works include the poetry collections The Other Side of the House (1988) and Mother Love (1995) and the novel Through the Ivory Gate (1992). Her play

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36. University Of Virginia Four-Millionth Volume Celebration We are fortunate that rita dove, United States Poet Laureate, is on the University of Virginia faculty Text and images © Copyright 1995, rita dove, Claire van Vliet, and The http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/fourmill.html

Click here to read, hear, and see the poem. A few words from Karin Wittenborg, University Librarian Arriving in Charlottesville last fall as the new University Librarian, I found that an immediate and pleasant task was to begin planning a suitable way to celebrate the acquisition of the University of Virginia Libraries' four-millionth volume. Research libraries never leave such milestones to chance; a worthy candidate is given much thought. In reflecting upon the qualities of this institution, I knew the four-millionth volume must symbolize our traditional strengths in books and manuscripts yet also acknowledge our leading role in electronic technology. The volume must interweave these elements and represent our vision of the Library's role in the twenty-first century. Many ideas were generated, but one stood out as especially appealing. We are fortunate that Rita Dove, United States Poet Laureate, is on the University of Virginia faculty as a member of the English Department, and we were eager to see if one of her poems could serve as the four-millionth volume. Ms. Dove kindly agreed, and we turned to Claire Van Vliet of the Janus Press to create a handmade book based on the poem "Lady Freedom Among Us." Ms. Dove read the poem at the occasion of the return of the statue

37. Dove, Rita encyclopediaEncyclopedia dove, rita. dove, rita, 1952–, American poet, b. Akron, Ohio. Related content from HighBeam Research on rita dove. http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0816001.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... Memorial Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips 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., Mother Love (1995), everyday life, travel, and the aesthetic experience itself. From 1993 to 1995 she was U.S. poet laureate, the first African American to hold the post. An English professor at the Univ. of Virginia, Dove has also written short stories, a play, and a novel. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia

38. Rita Dove: Online Poems rita dove Online Poems. My Mother Enters the Work Force The blue pair of shoes! © rita dove. Online Source. Wiring Home. Lest the wolves http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dove/onlinepoems.htm

Rita Dove: Online Poems My Mother Enters the Work Force The path to ABC Business School was paid for by a lucky sign: Alterations, Qualified Seamstress Inquire Within. Tested on Sleeves, hers never puckered puffed or sleek, Leg o' or Raglan they barely needed the damp cloth to steam them perfect. Those were the afternoons. Evenings she took in piecework, the treadle machine with its locomotive whir traveling the lit path of the needle through quicksand taffeta or velvet deep as a forest. And now and now sang the treadle, I know, I know.... And then it was day again, all morning at the office machines, their clack and chatter another journey rougher, that would go on forever until she could break a hundred words with no errors ah, and then no more postponed groceries, and that blue pair of shoes! © Rita Dove. Online Source Wiring Home Lest the wolves loose their whistles and shopkeepers inquire, keep moving, though your knees flush red as two chapped apples

39. Dove, Rita Comments/Inquiries ©New York University 19932004. dove, rita. On-Line Author Site. Sex, Female. National Origin, United States of America. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/dove531-au-.ht

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 53rd Edition-April 2004 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Author Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Editors' Choices Choices Editor's Biosketch Indexes Book Order Form Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Dove, Rita On-Line Author Site Sex Female National Origin United States of America Ethnic Origin African-American Era Late 20th Century Born Awards Pulitzer Prize, former Poet Laureate of the USA, Charles Frankel Prize Annotated Works After Reading 'Mickey in the Night Kitchen' for the Third Time Before Bed Old Folk's Home, Jerusalem

40. Dove, Rita Old Folk S Home, Jerusalem Literature Annotations. dove, rita Old Folk s Home, Jerusalem. Genre, Poem. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/dove1226-des-

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 53rd Edition-April 2004 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Author Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Editors' Choices Choices Editor's Biosketch Indexes Book Order Form Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Literature Annotations Dove, Rita Old Folk's Home, Jerusalem Genre Poem Keywords Aging Death and Dying Human Worth Institutionalization Summary Visiting an old folk's home in Jerusalem, the narrator notes the details of life and of natureevening, the bees' buzzing busy-ness gone for the day, "the honeysuckle / in its golden dotage, all the sickrooms ajar." There ends, however, the "normal," for in the next lines we are brought up short with "Law of the Innocents: What doesn't end, sloshes over . . . even here, where destiny girds the cucumber." What are the Innocents doing in an old folk's home? And are the honeysuckle and cucumber vines the "destiny"the liquid life-lines of feeding and IV tubesthat "gird" the occupants? In the second stanza, the narrator recognizes that no matter what the occupants (or the narrator himself/herself) have ever accomplished, nothing of worldly success matters here. What is real are "horned thumbnail[s] hooked into an ear" and "gray underwear wadded over a belt."

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