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Rita Dove

Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86). Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000.[1] Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia[2] from 2004 to 2006. Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020; as of 2020, she holds the chair of Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing.[3]

Rita Dove
Dove in December 2017
BornRita Frances Dove
(1952-08-28) August 28, 1952 (age 71)
Akron, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation
  • Poet
  • author
  • university professor
Alma materMiami University
University of Tübingen
University of Iowa
Notable worksThomas and Beulah
The Darker Face of the Earth
Sonata Mulattica
Playlist for the Apocalypse
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Poetry (1987)
United States Poet Laureate (1993–95)
Poet Laureate of Virginia (2004–06)
1996 National Humanities Medal
2011 National Medal of Arts
2019 Wallace Stevens Award
2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal
2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 2022 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
2023 National Book Awards lifetime achievement medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Spouse
Fred Viebahn
(m. 1979)
Children1

Early life edit

Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, to Ray Dove, one of the first African-American chemists to work in the U.S. tire industry (as a research chemist at Goodyear), and Elvira Hord, who achieved honors in high school and would share her passion for reading with her daughter.[4][5] In 1970, Dove graduated from Buchtel High School as a Presidential Scholar. Later, Dove graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Miami University in 1973. From 1974 to 1975 she held a Fulbright Scholarship from University of Tübingen, Germany. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1977.

Career edit

External videos
 
  C-SPAN Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, 15:43, C-SPAN[6]

Dove taught creative writing at Arizona State University from 1981 to 1989. She received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In May 1993 she was named United States Poet Laureate[7] by the Librarian of Congress, an office she held until 1995. At the age of 40, Dove was the youngest person in the position and the first African American since the title was changed to Poet Laureate (Robert Hayden had served as the first non-white Consultant in Poetry from 1976 to 1978, and Gwendolyn Brooks had been the last Consultant in Poetry in 1985–86). Early in her tenure as poet laureate, Dove was featured by Bill Moyers in a one-hour interview on his PBS prime-time program Bill Moyers Journal.[8] Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020 and is now the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing.[9]

Dove also served as a Special Bicentennial Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1999/2000, along with Louise Glück and W. S. Merwin. In 2004, then-governor Mark Warner of Virginia appointed her to a two-year position as Poet Laureate of Virginia.[2] In her public posts, Dove concentrated on spreading the word about poetry and increasing public awareness of the benefits of literature. As United States Poet Laureate, for example, she brought together writers to explore the African diaspora through the eyes of its artists.[10]

Dove was on the board of the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) (now "Association of Writers and Writing Programs") from 1985 to 1988, leading the organization as its president from 1986 to 1987. From 1994 to 2000, she was a senator (member of the governing board) of the national academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa. From 2006 to 2012 she served as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Since 1991, she has been on the jury of the annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards—from 1991 to 1996 together with Ashley Montagu and Henry Louis Gates; from 1997 to 2023 with Gates, Joyce Carol Oates, Simon Schama, Stephen Jay Gould (until his death in 2002) and Steven Pinker (who replaced Gould in 2002), and since 2023 with Pinker, Peter Ho Davies, Tiya Miles and Natasha Tretheway.[11][12] Since 2023 she serves as vice president for literature at the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[13]

In 2000 and 2001 Dove wrote a weekly column, "Poet's Choice", for The Washington Post.[14][15] In the spring of 2018, Dove was named poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine.[16] After writing nearly fifty columns in which she championed new American poetry, she resigned from the position in August 2019.

Dove's work cannot be confined to a specific era or school in contemporary literature; her wide-ranging topics and the precise poetic language with which she captures complex emotions defy easy categorization. Her most famous work to date is Thomas and Beulah, published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press in 1986, a collection of poems loosely based on the lives of her maternal grandparents, for which she received the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. Dove has published eleven volumes of poetry, a book of short stories (Fifth Sunday, 1985), a collection of essays (The Poet's World, 1995), and a novel, Through the Ivory Gate (1992). Her Collected Poems 1974–2004 was released by W. W. Norton in 2016; it carries an excerpt from President Barack Obama's 2011 National Medal of Arts commendation on its back cover.

 
Dove and then-national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman at the "Furious Flower" gala in Washington, D.C., September 27, 2019

In 1994, she published the play The Darker Face of the Earth (revised stage version 1996), which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, in 1996 (first European production: Royal National Theatre, London, 1999). She collaborated with composer John Williams on the song cycle Seven for Luck (first performance: Boston Symphony, Tanglewood, 1998, conducted by the composer). For "America's Millennium", the White House's 1999/2000 New Year's celebration, Dove contributed — in a live reading at the Lincoln Memorial, accompanied by John Williams' music — a poem to Steven Spielberg's documentary The Unfinished Journey.[17] She also provided the texts for Pulitzer Prize winner Tania Leon's musical works "Singin' Sepia" (1996),[18] "Reflections" (2006) [19] and "The Crossing Choir" (forthcoming),[20] among other collaborations with multiple composers, most recently on "A Standing Witness" with Richard Danielpour.[21]

Dove's most ambitious collection of poetry to date, Sonata Mulattica,[22] was published in 2009; it received the 2010 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. Over its more than 200 pages, it "has the sweep and vivid characters of a novel", as Mark Doty wrote in O, The Oprah Magazine.[23]

Dove's 11th collection of poetry, Playlist for the Apocalypse,[24] was published by W. W. Norton in August 2021. New York Times critic Dwight Garner called it "among her best", "poems that are by turns delicate, witty and audacious."[25]

Dove edited The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry, published in 2011.[26][27] The collection provoked heated controversy as some critics complained that she valued an inclusive, populist agenda over quality. Poet John Olson commented that "her exclusions are breathtaking". Well-known poets left out include Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Sterling Brown, Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff and Lorine Niedecker.[28]

As Dove explained in her foreword and in media interviews, she had originally selected works by Plath, Ginsberg and Brown but these as well as some other poets were omitted against her editorial wishes; their contributions had to be removed from print-ready copy at the very last minute because their publisher forbade their inclusion due to a disagreement with Penguin over permission fees. Critic Helen Vendler condemned Dove's choices, asking "why are we being asked to sample so many poets of little or no lasting value?"[29] Dove defended her editorial work vigorously in her response to Vendler in The New York Review of Books,[30] as well as in wide-ranging interviews with The Writer's Chronicle,[31] with poet Jericho Brown on the Best American Poetry website,[32] and with Bill Moyers on his public television show Moyers & Company.[33] The Boston Review continued the discussion from different angles with an aggressive attack by scholar Marjorie Perloff[34] and a spirited counter-attack by poet and scholar Evie Shockley, who took on both Vendler and Perloff.[35]

Dove published a number of books in foreign translations, among them two into German, two into Chinese, three into Spanish, and one each into Norwegian, Macedonian, Italian, French, Dutch and Hebrew, plus numerous translations in foreign magazines. One of her earliest foreign translations was into French by Paol Keineg and published in the Breton review "Bretagnes" in 1976.[36]

The annual "Rita Dove Poetry Award" was established by Salem College Center for Women Writers in 2004. The documentary film Rita Dove: An American Poet by Eduardo Montes-Bradley premiered at the Paramount Theater on January 31, 2014.[37][38]

In 2019, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth, Dove put the African-American poetic reception of Whitman into perspective at a poetry festival in Bogotá, Colombia, during a round-table session with Robert Pinsky.[39]

Awards and honors edit

 
Poet Laureate Rita Dove's definition of a library at the entrance to the Maine State Library in Augusta, Maine. Dove's definition reads "The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.".

Besides her Pulitzer Prize, Dove has received numerous literary and academic honors, among them 29 honorary doctorates – most recently, in 2018, from Harvard University,[40] Smith College[41] and The University of Michigan,[42] and in 2022 from her graduate alma mater, The University of Iowa[43]—as well as, in 2014, from Yale University[44] and, in 2013, from Emerson College[45] and Emory University[46]). In 2016, she was the commencement speaker at The University of Virginia, which traditionally does not bestow honorary degrees.[47] Among the other institutions of higher learning that granted her honorary doctorates are her undergraduate alma mater Miami University, Knox College, Tuskegee University, University of Miami (Florida), Washington University in St. Louis, Case Western Reserve University, The University of Akron, Arizona State University, Boston College, Dartmouth College, Spelman College, The University of Pennsylvania, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame, Northeastern University, Columbia University, SUNY Brockport, Washington & Lee University, Howard University, the Pratt Institute, Skidmore College and Duke University.[48]

Dove received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1994,[49][50] the National Humanities Medal / Charles Frankel Prize from President Bill Clinton in 1996,[51] the 3rd Annual Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities in 1997,[52] and more recently, the 2006 Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service in Literature, the 2007 Chubb Fellowship at Yale University,[53] the 2008 Library of Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award,[54] the 2009 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal,[55] the 2009 Premio Capri[56] and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama.[57][58][59] In 2014, she was honored with the Carole Weinstein Prize in poetry[60] and in 2015, as the first American, with the Poetry and People Prize in Guangdong, China. In 2016, she received the Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement from Oregon State University.[61] Collected Poems 1974–2004, released in 2016, was a finalist for the National Book Award,[62] the winner of the NAACP Image Award in poetry and winner of the 2017 Library of Virginia Poetry Award.[63] Also in 2017, she received the Callaloo Lifetime Achievement Award,[64] followed in 2018 by The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement[65] and in 2019 by the Wallace Stevens Award[66] from the Academy of American Poets, the North Star Award (the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for lifetime achievement)[67][circular reference],[68] the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal[69] from Harvard University and the Langston Hughes Medal[70] from City College of New York.

In 2021, Dove received the gold medal in poetry [71] from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the academy's highest honor, as the 16th poet (and only the 3rd female and 1st African-American) in the medals' 110-year history. The other fifteen poets who have received the medal since 1911 were James Whitcomb Riley, Edward Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Conrad Aiken, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden, John Crowe Ransom, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, John Ashbery, W.S. Merwin, Mark Strand and Louise Glück.

In 2022, an official portrait of Dove by photographer Sanjay Suchak, commissioned by the University of Virginia, was unveiled and is prominently displayed in the front room of the university's historic Pavilion VII (Colonnade Club) on the West Lawn.[72] Also in 2022, she won the Library of Virginia Poetry Award for Playlist for the Apocalypse [2] and received two more lifetime achievement recognitions: a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation [73] and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress.[74]

On Nov. 15, 2023, during the 74th National Book Awards ceremony in New York, Dove received the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters as only the fourth poet in this lifetime achievement category, after Gwendolyn Brooks in 1994, Adrienne Rich in 2006 and John Ashbery in 2011. [75] This was followed by an Academy of American Poets Leadership Award in 2024.[76]

Dove is a member of the American Philosophical Society,[77] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where she serves as vice president for literature during the 2023 to 2026 board term,[78] the Fellowship of Southern Writers and PEN American Center. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1991,[79] and in 2018 she was named one of the Library of Virginia's Virginia Women in History.[80]

Personal life edit

Dove married Fred Viebahn,[81] a German-born writer, in 1979; they first met in the summer of 1976 when she was a graduate student in the Iowa Writers Workshop and he spent a semester as a Fulbright fellow in the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. They lived in Oberlin, Ohio, from 1977 to 1979 while Viebahn taught in the Oberlin College German department, and spent extended periods of time in Germany, Ireland and Israel, before moving to Arizona in 1981.[82] Their daughter, Aviva Dove-Viebahn,[83] was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1983. The couple are avid ballroom dancers,[84] and have participated in a number of showcase performances. Since 1989 Dove and her husband have been living in Charlottesville, Virginia.[85]

Bibliography edit

Poetry edit

Collections
  • The yellow house on the corner. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press. 1980.
  • Museum (Carnegie Mellon, 1983)
  • Thomas and Beulah (Carnegie Mellon Press, 1986), ISBN 978-0-88748-021-8
  • Grace Notes (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), ISBN 978-0-393-02719-8
  • Selected Poems (Pantheon/Vintage, 1993), ISBN 978-0-679-75080-2
  • Mother Love (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995), ISBN 978-0-393-31444-1
  • On the Bus with Rosa Parks (New York: Norton, 1999), ISBN 978-0-393-04722-6
  • American Smooth (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), ISBN 978-0-393-05987-8
  • Sonata Mulattica (New York: W. W. Norton, 2009), ISBN 978-0-393-07008-8
  • Collected Poems 1974-2004 (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2016), ISBN 978-0-393-28594-9
  • Playlist for the Apocalypse (New York: W. W. Norton, 2021), ISBN 978-0-393-86777-0
Anthologies (edited)

Novels edit

Short fiction edit

Drama edit

Essays edit

  • The Poet's World (Washington, DC: The Library of Congress, 1995)


Scholarly books on Dove's work edit

  • Steffen, Therese. Crossing Color: Transcultural Space and Place in Rita Dove's Poetry, Fiction, and Drama. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  • Ingersoll, Earl G., ed. Conversations with Rita Dove. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003
  • Pereira, Malin. Rita Dove's Cosmopolitanism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
  • Righelato, Pat. Understanding Rita Dove. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006.
  • Roy, Lekha. Towards Post-Blackness. A Critical Study of Rita Dove's Poetry. New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2023.


Various other secondary literature (incomplete) edit

  • Erickson, Peter. "Rita Dove's Shakespeares." In Marianne Novy (ed.), Transforming Shakespeare. New York: St. Martin's, 1999.
  • Harrington, Walt, "The Shape of Her Dreaming: Rita Dove Writes a Poem." In Intimate Journalism. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1997
  • Keller, Lynn. "Sequences Testifying for 'Nobodies': Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah and Brenda Marie Osbey's Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman." In Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
  • McDowell, Robert. "The Assembling Vision of Rita Dove." In James McCorkle (ed.), Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1990.
  • Meitner, Erika. "On Rita Dove." In Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker (eds), Women Poets on Mentorship. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008
  • Shoptaw, John. "Segregated Lives: Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah." In Henry Louis Gates, Jr (ed.), Reading Black, Reading Feminist. London: Penguin, 1990
  • Galgano, Andrea. "Rita Dove. La grazia esatta" in Frontiera di Pagine II, pp. 723–734. Roma: Aracne, 2017
  • Apolloni, Ag. Poetry is a kind of dance (Interview with Rita Dove). Symbol, No 9/2017. Link: https://www.eurozine.com/poetry-is-a-kind-of-dance/
  • Young, Kevin. "The Art of Poetry. No. 113." Interview with Rita Dove. In The Paris Review No 243 (Spring 2023). pp. 114-148.


Very incomplete list of individual poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
The Bridgetower 2008 Dove, Rita (November 24, 2008). "The Bridgetower". The New Yorker. 84 (38): 90–91.
Last words 2021 Dove, Rita (January 25, 2021). "Last words". The New Yorker. 96 (45): 38.
Hattie McDaniel arrives at the Coconut Grove 2022 Dove, Rita (August 29, 2022). "Hattie McDaniel arrives at the Coconut Grove". The New Yorker. 98 (26): 24–25.


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External links edit

  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • The Rita Dove Homepage at University of Virginia, with resource listing of video, articles etc. Retrieved November 2, 2010
  • Audio: Rita Dove at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2010: "How Does a Shadow Shine?" Retrieved November 2, 2010
  • Poems by Rita Dove and biography at PoetryFoundation.org. Retrieved November 2, 2010
  • Interview: Rita Dove at the Academy of American Poets. Poems, audio, interviews. Retrieved November 2, 2010
  • Rita Dove, "The Bridgetower" (poem), The New Yorker, November 24, 2008. Retrieved November 2, 2010
  • Essays, poems, interview about Dove at Modern American Poetry, University of Illinois. Retrieved November 2, 2010
  • "Rita Dove on the Future of Literature", The Smithsonian, August 2010
  • "Rita Dove: A Selective Bibliography", Project Muse. Retrieved December 1, 2015
  • , Rutgers University. Retrieved April 4, 2018
  • Extended Interview: Rita Dove. Interviewed by Jeffrey Brown on PBS Newshour, December 2011, on the topic of 20th-century American poetry, as collected in The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Retrieved February 11, 2017

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Rita Frances Dove born August 28 1952 is an American poet and essayist From 1993 to 1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous consultant in poetry position 1937 86 Dove also received an appointment as special consultant in poetry for the Library of Congress s bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000 1 Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987 and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia 2 from 2004 to 2006 Since 1989 she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020 as of 2020 she holds the chair of Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing 3 Rita DoveDove in December 2017BornRita Frances Dove 1952 08 28 August 28 1952 age 71 Akron Ohio U S OccupationPoet author university professorAlma materMiami UniversityUniversity of TubingenUniversity of IowaNotable worksThomas and BeulahThe Darker Face of the EarthSonata MulatticaPlaylist for the ApocalypseNotable awardsPulitzer Prize for Poetry 1987 United States Poet Laureate 1993 95 Poet Laureate of Virginia 2004 06 1996 National Humanities Medal2011 National Medal of Arts2019 Wallace Stevens Award2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 2022 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry2023 National Book Awards lifetime achievement medal for Distinguished Contribution to American LettersSpouseFred Viebahn m 1979 wbr Children1 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Awards and honors 4 Personal life 5 Bibliography 5 1 Poetry 5 2 Novels 5 3 Short fiction 5 4 Drama 5 5 Essays 5 6 Scholarly books on Dove s work 5 7 Various other secondary literature incomplete 6 References 7 External linksEarly life editRita Dove was born in Akron Ohio to Ray Dove one of the first African American chemists to work in the U S tire industry as a research chemist at Goodyear and Elvira Hord who achieved honors in high school and would share her passion for reading with her daughter 4 5 In 1970 Dove graduated from Buchtel High School as a Presidential Scholar Later Dove graduated summa cum laude with a B A from Miami University in 1973 From 1974 to 1975 she held a Fulbright Scholarship from University of Tubingen Germany She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1977 Career editExternal videos nbsp nbsp C SPAN Former U S Poet Laureate Rita Dove 15 43 C SPAN 6 Dove taught creative writing at Arizona State University from 1981 to 1989 She received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry In May 1993 she was named United States Poet Laureate 7 by the Librarian of Congress an office she held until 1995 At the age of 40 Dove was the youngest person in the position and the first African American since the title was changed to Poet Laureate Robert Hayden had served as the first non white Consultant in Poetry from 1976 to 1978 and Gwendolyn Brooks had been the last Consultant in Poetry in 1985 86 Early in her tenure as poet laureate Dove was featured by Bill Moyers in a one hour interview on his PBS prime time program Bill Moyers Journal 8 Since 1989 she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020 and is now the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing 9 Dove also served as a Special Bicentennial Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1999 2000 along with Louise Gluck and W S Merwin In 2004 then governor Mark Warner of Virginia appointed her to a two year position as Poet Laureate of Virginia 2 In her public posts Dove concentrated on spreading the word about poetry and increasing public awareness of the benefits of literature As United States Poet Laureate for example she brought together writers to explore the African diaspora through the eyes of its artists 10 Dove was on the board of the Associated Writing Programs AWP now Association of Writers and Writing Programs from 1985 to 1988 leading the organization as its president from 1986 to 1987 From 1994 to 2000 she was a senator member of the governing board of the national academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa From 2006 to 2012 she served as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets Since 1991 she has been on the jury of the annual Anisfield Wolf Book Awards from 1991 to 1996 together with Ashley Montagu and Henry Louis Gates from 1997 to 2023 with Gates Joyce Carol Oates Simon Schama Stephen Jay Gould until his death in 2002 and Steven Pinker who replaced Gould in 2002 and since 2023 with Pinker Peter Ho Davies Tiya Miles and Natasha Tretheway 11 12 Since 2023 she serves as vice president for literature at the American Academy of Arts and Letters 13 In 2000 and 2001 Dove wrote a weekly column Poet s Choice for The Washington Post 14 15 In the spring of 2018 Dove was named poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine 16 After writing nearly fifty columns in which she championed new American poetry she resigned from the position in August 2019 Dove s work cannot be confined to a specific era or school in contemporary literature her wide ranging topics and the precise poetic language with which she captures complex emotions defy easy categorization Her most famous work to date is Thomas and Beulah published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 1986 a collection of poems loosely based on the lives of her maternal grandparents for which she received the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 Dove has published eleven volumes of poetry a book of short stories Fifth Sunday 1985 a collection of essays The Poet s World 1995 and a novel Through the Ivory Gate 1992 Her Collected Poems 1974 2004 was released by W W Norton in 2016 it carries an excerpt from President Barack Obama s 2011 National Medal of Arts commendation on its back cover nbsp Dove and then national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman at the Furious Flower gala in Washington D C September 27 2019In 1994 she published the play The Darker Face of the Earth revised stage version 1996 which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland Oregon in 1996 first European production Royal National Theatre London 1999 She collaborated with composer John Williams on the song cycle Seven for Luck first performance Boston Symphony Tanglewood 1998 conducted by the composer For America s Millennium the White House s 1999 2000 New Year s celebration Dove contributed in a live reading at the Lincoln Memorial accompanied by John Williams music a poem to Steven Spielberg s documentary The Unfinished Journey 17 She also provided the texts for Pulitzer Prize winner Tania Leon s musical works Singin Sepia 1996 18 Reflections 2006 19 and The Crossing Choir forthcoming 20 among other collaborations with multiple composers most recently on A Standing Witness with Richard Danielpour 21 Dove s most ambitious collection of poetry to date Sonata Mulattica 22 was published in 2009 it received the 2010 Hurston Wright Legacy Award Over its more than 200 pages it has the sweep and vivid characters of a novel as Mark Doty wrote in O The Oprah Magazine 23 Dove s 11th collection of poetry Playlist for the Apocalypse 24 was published by W W Norton in August 2021 New York Times critic Dwight Garner called it among her best poems that are by turns delicate witty and audacious 25 Dove edited The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry published in 2011 26 27 The collection provoked heated controversy as some critics complained that she valued an inclusive populist agenda over quality Poet John Olson commented that her exclusions are breathtaking Well known poets left out include Sylvia Plath Allen Ginsberg Sterling Brown Louis Zukofsky George Oppen Charles Reznikoff and Lorine Niedecker 28 As Dove explained in her foreword and in media interviews she had originally selected works by Plath Ginsberg and Brown but these as well as some other poets were omitted against her editorial wishes their contributions had to be removed from print ready copy at the very last minute because their publisher forbade their inclusion due to a disagreement with Penguin over permission fees Critic Helen Vendler condemned Dove s choices asking why are we being asked to sample so many poets of little or no lasting value 29 Dove defended her editorial work vigorously in her response to Vendler in The New York Review of Books 30 as well as in wide ranging interviews with The Writer s Chronicle 31 with poet Jericho Brown on the Best American Poetry website 32 and with Bill Moyers on his public television show Moyers amp Company 33 The Boston Review continued the discussion from different angles with an aggressive attack by scholar Marjorie Perloff 34 and a spirited counter attack by poet and scholar Evie Shockley who took on both Vendler and Perloff 35 Dove published a number of books in foreign translations among them two into German two into Chinese three into Spanish and one each into Norwegian Macedonian Italian French Dutch and Hebrew plus numerous translations in foreign magazines One of her earliest foreign translations was into French by Paol Keineg and published in the Breton review Bretagnes in 1976 36 The annual Rita Dove Poetry Award was established by Salem College Center for Women Writers in 2004 The documentary film Rita Dove An American Poet by Eduardo Montes Bradley premiered at the Paramount Theater on January 31 2014 37 38 In 2019 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman s birth Dove put the African American poetic reception of Whitman into perspective at a poetry festival in Bogota Colombia during a round table session with Robert Pinsky 39 Awards and honors edit nbsp Poet Laureate Rita Dove s definition of a library at the entrance to the Maine State Library in Augusta Maine Dove s definition reads The library is an arena of possibility opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world Besides her Pulitzer Prize Dove has received numerous literary and academic honors among them 29 honorary doctorates most recently in 2018 from Harvard University 40 Smith College 41 and The University of Michigan 42 and in 2022 from her graduate alma mater The University of Iowa 43 as well as in 2014 from Yale University 44 and in 2013 from Emerson College 45 and Emory University 46 In 2016 she was the commencement speaker at The University of Virginia which traditionally does not bestow honorary degrees 47 Among the other institutions of higher learning that granted her honorary doctorates are her undergraduate alma mater Miami University Knox College Tuskegee University University of Miami Florida Washington University in St Louis Case Western Reserve University The University of Akron Arizona State University Boston College Dartmouth College Spelman College The University of Pennsylvania The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Notre Dame Northeastern University Columbia University SUNY Brockport Washington amp Lee University Howard University the Pratt Institute Skidmore College and Duke University 48 Dove received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1994 49 50 the National Humanities Medal Charles Frankel Prize from President Bill Clinton in 1996 51 the 3rd Annual Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities in 1997 52 and more recently the 2006 Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service in Literature the 2007 Chubb Fellowship at Yale University 53 the 2008 Library of Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award 54 the 2009 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal 55 the 2009 Premio Capri 56 and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama 57 58 59 In 2014 she was honored with the Carole Weinstein Prize in poetry 60 and in 2015 as the first American with the Poetry and People Prize in Guangdong China In 2016 she received the Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement from Oregon State University 61 Collected Poems 1974 2004 released in 2016 was a finalist for the National Book Award 62 the winner of the NAACP Image Award in poetry and winner of the 2017 Library of Virginia Poetry Award 63 Also in 2017 she received the Callaloo Lifetime Achievement Award 64 followed in 2018 by The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement 65 and in 2019 by the Wallace Stevens Award 66 from the Academy of American Poets the North Star Award the Hurston Wright Legacy Award for lifetime achievement 67 circular reference 68 the W E B Du Bois Medal 69 from Harvard University and the Langston Hughes Medal 70 from City College of New York In 2021 Dove received the gold medal in poetry 71 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters the academy s highest honor as the 16th poet and only the 3rd female and 1st African American in the medals 110 year history The other fifteen poets who have received the medal since 1911 were James Whitcomb Riley Edward Arlington Robinson Robert Frost Marianne Moore Conrad Aiken William Carlos Williams W H Auden John Crowe Ransom Archibald MacLeish Robert Penn Warren Richard Wilbur John Ashbery W S Merwin Mark Strand and Louise Gluck In 2022 an official portrait of Dove by photographer Sanjay Suchak commissioned by the University of Virginia was unveiled and is prominently displayed in the front room of the university s historic Pavilion VII Colonnade Club on the West Lawn 72 Also in 2022 she won the Library of Virginia Poetry Award for Playlist for the Apocalypse 2 and received two more lifetime achievement recognitions a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation 73 and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress 74 On Nov 15 2023 during the 74th National Book Awards ceremony in New York Dove received the National Book Foundation s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters as only the fourth poet in this lifetime achievement category after Gwendolyn Brooks in 1994 Adrienne Rich in 2006 and John Ashbery in 2011 75 This was followed by an Academy of American Poets Leadership Award in 2024 76 Dove is a member of the American Philosophical Society 77 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences the American Academy of Arts and Letters where she serves as vice president for literature during the 2023 to 2026 board term 78 the Fellowship of Southern Writers and PEN American Center She was inducted into the Ohio Women s Hall of Fame in 1991 79 and in 2018 she was named one of the Library of Virginia s Virginia Women in History 80 Personal life editDove married Fred Viebahn 81 a German born writer in 1979 they first met in the summer of 1976 when she was a graduate student in the Iowa Writers Workshop and he spent a semester as a Fulbright fellow in the University of Iowa s International Writing Program They lived in Oberlin Ohio from 1977 to 1979 while Viebahn taught in the Oberlin College German department and spent extended periods of time in Germany Ireland and Israel before moving to Arizona in 1981 82 Their daughter Aviva Dove Viebahn 83 was born in Phoenix Arizona in 1983 The couple are avid ballroom dancers 84 and have participated in a number of showcase performances Since 1989 Dove and her husband have been living in Charlottesville Virginia 85 Bibliography editThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items December 2023 Poetry edit CollectionsThe yellow house on the corner Pittsburgh Carnegie Mellon University Press 1980 Museum Carnegie Mellon 1983 Thomas and Beulah Carnegie Mellon Press 1986 ISBN 978 0 88748 021 8 Grace Notes New York W W Norton 1989 ISBN 978 0 393 02719 8 Selected Poems Pantheon Vintage 1993 ISBN 978 0 679 75080 2 Mother Love New York W W Norton 1995 ISBN 978 0 393 31444 1 On the Bus with Rosa Parks New York Norton 1999 ISBN 978 0 393 04722 6 American Smooth New York W W Norton 2004 ISBN 978 0 393 05987 8 Sonata Mulattica New York W W Norton 2009 ISBN 978 0 393 07008 8 Collected Poems 1974 2004 New York and London W W Norton 2016 ISBN 978 0 393 28594 9 Playlist for the Apocalypse New York W W Norton 2021 ISBN 978 0 393 86777 0Anthologies edited The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry New York Penguin Books 2011 ISBN 978 0 14 310643 2 The Best American Poetry 2000 New York Scribner 2000 ISBN 978 0 7432 0033 2Novels edit Through the Ivory Gate Pantheon Books 1992 ISBN 978 0 679 41604 3Short fiction edit Fifth Sunday University of Kentucky Callaloo Fiction Series 1985 ISBN 978 0 912759 06 7Drama edit The Darker Face of the Earth A Verse Play in Fourteen Scenes Story Line Press 1994 revised edition 1996 Essays edit The Poet s World Washington DC The Library of Congress 1995 Scholarly books on Dove s work edit Steffen Therese Crossing Color Transcultural Space and Place in Rita Dove s Poetry Fiction and Drama New York Oxford University Press 2001 Ingersoll Earl G ed Conversations with Rita Dove Jackson University Press of Mississippi 2003 Pereira Malin Rita Dove s Cosmopolitanism Urbana University of Illinois Press 2003 Righelato Pat Understanding Rita Dove Columbia University of South Carolina Press 2006 Roy Lekha Towards Post Blackness A Critical Study of Rita Dove s Poetry New York Bern Berlin Bruxelles Oxford Wien Peter Lang 2023 Various other secondary literature incomplete edit Erickson Peter Rita Dove s Shakespeares In Marianne Novy ed Transforming Shakespeare New York St Martin s 1999 Harrington Walt The Shape of Her Dreaming Rita Dove Writes a Poem In Intimate Journalism Thousand Oaks Sage 1997 Keller Lynn Sequences Testifying for Nobodies Rita Dove s Thomas and Beulah and Brenda Marie Osbey s Desperate Circumstance Dangerous Woman In Forms of Expansion Recent Long Poems by Women Chicago University of Chicago Press 1997 McDowell Robert The Assembling Vision of Rita Dove In James McCorkle ed Conversant Essays Contemporary Poets on Poetry Detroit Wayne State University 1990 Meitner Erika On Rita Dove In Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker eds Women Poets on Mentorship Iowa City University of Iowa Press 2008 Shoptaw John Segregated Lives Rita Dove s Thomas and Beulah In Henry Louis Gates Jr ed Reading Black Reading Feminist London Penguin 1990 Galgano Andrea Rita Dove La grazia esatta in Frontiera di Pagine II pp 723 734 Roma Aracne 2017 Apolloni Ag Poetry is a kind of dance Interview with Rita Dove Symbol No 9 2017 Link https www eurozine com poetry is a kind of dance Young Kevin The Art of Poetry No 113 Interview with Rita Dove In The Paris Review No 243 Spring 2023 pp 114 148 Very incomplete list of individual poemsTitle Year First published Reprinted collectedThe Bridgetower 2008 Dove Rita November 24 2008 The Bridgetower The New Yorker 84 38 90 91 Last words 2021 Dove Rita January 25 2021 Last words The New Yorker 96 45 38 Hattie McDaniel arrives at the Coconut Grove 2022 Dove Rita August 29 2022 Hattie McDaniel arrives at the Coconut Grove The New Yorker 98 26 24 25 References edit Rita Dove Poetry Foundation March 14 2018 Retrieved March 15 2018 a b Virginia State Poet Laureate State Poets Laureate of the United States Main Reading Room Library of Congress www loc gov Retrieved March 15 2018 Rita Dove Creative Writing Program Rita Dove 2008 Comprehensive Biography of Rita Dove University of Virginia Retrieved January 1 2009 Rita Dove Biography and Interview www achievement org American Academy of Achievement Former U S Poet Laureate Rita Dove C SPAN March 21 2017 Retrieved May 26 2017 Library of Congress Online resources with links to works commentary and recorded works Poet Laureate Rita Dove BillMoyers com Retrieved March 15 2018 Department of English Frequently Asked Questions United States Poets Laureate Library of Congress Bibliographies Research Guides and Finding Aids Virtual Programs amp Services Library of Congress www loc gov Retrieved March 15 2018 Anisfield Wolf Book Awards The 82nd Annual Anisfield Wolf Book Awards Retrieved March 15 2018 https www anisfield wolf org about the jury https uva theopenscholar com rita dove news rita dove joins board american academy arts and letters 1 dead link Today on page 12 of Book World The Washington Post Retrieved June 11 2022 Fitzgerald Brendan May 25 2018 NYT Magazine s Rita Dove on What Poetry Might Grant Unsuspecting News Readers Columbia Journalism Review CJR org Retrieved November 5 2018 Rita Dove reading at America s Millennium on YouTube Singin Sepia Tania Leon https www tanialeon com catalogue List of Works tanialeon com Tania Leon Kennedy Center Special Project A Standing Witness by Richard Danielpour amp Rita Dove Dworkin amp Company May Lori A July 11 2013 Poets Quarterly Sonata Mulattica Rita Dove s Juggling Act Poetsquarterly com Retrieved August 18 2013 Mark Doty The Silenced Violin O The Oprah Magazine April 2009 Playlist for the Apocalypse Garner Dwight August 9 2021 In Playlist for the Apocalypse the Weight of American History and of Mortality The New York Times Brown Jeffrey December 16 2011 In Anthology Rita Dove Connects American Poets Intergenerational Conversations PBS NewsHour MacNeil Lehrer Productions Retrieved December 17 2011 Brooks Mary Jo December 16 2011 Friday on the NewsHour Rita Dove MacNeil Lehrer Productions Retrieved December 17 2011 Flood Alison December 22 2011 Poetry anthology sparks race row The Guardian Vendler Helen November 24 2011 Are These the Poems to Remember The New York Review of Books Dove Rita December 22 2011 Defending An Anthology The New York Review of Books Editing the Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry An Interview with Rita Dove PDF The Writer s Chronicle December 2011 Until the Fulcrum Tips A Conversation with Rita Dove and Jericho Brown Rita Dove on the Power of Poetry Moyers February 17 2012 Poetry on the Brink Boston Review May 18 2012 Retrieved August 18 2013 Shockley Evie June 6 2013 Shifting the Im balance Race and the Poetry Canon Boston Review Retrieved August 18 2013 Bretagnes p 37 39 Morlaix David A Maurer New documentary about Rita Dove explores music family and other forces that shaped a poet The Daily Progress January 31 2014 Lawrence A Garretson Rita Dove talks about a new film on her life and work C Ville January 29 2014 Rita Dove on Walt Whitman Sept 2019 Youtube video Mitchell Stephanie May 24 2018 Seven Receive Honorary Degrees News Harvard edu Retrieved November 5 2018 Hold On To Your Dreams with Dignity Poet Rita Dove Tells Smith Graduates May 20 2018 Smith e Retrieved November 5 2018 Rosenfeld Benjamin December 16 2018 Winter commencement speakers emphasize adaptability paying it forward The Michigan Daily A master of poetry comes home Yale awards 12 honorary degrees at 2014 graduation May 19 2014 Retrieved November 25 2018 Emerson College Commencement 2013 Rita Dove receives honorary doctorate at Emerson College on YouTube Emory University Commencement Keynote 2013 on YouTube Rita Dove to Grads Instead of Advice I Will Give You Wishes Time Retrieved November 25 2018 People Department of English University of Virginia Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement www achievement org American Academy of Achievement 2019 Summit Highlights Photo 2019 Rita Dove former United States Poet Laureate presenting the Golden Plate Award to Nadia Murad recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace during the Banquet of the Golden Plate Award gala at the St Regis Hotel in New York City The 1996 National Medals of Arts and Humanities on YouTube The Heinz Awards Rita Dove www heinzawards net Retrieved March 15 2018 Past Fellows Yale Chubb Fellowship chubbfellowship org Retrieved March 15 2018 U Va s Rita Dove to Receive Library of Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award Oct 18 UVa Today Retrieved March 15 2018 Fulbright org Fulbright org Retrieved March 15 2018 2009 Rita Dove premiocapri com Premio Capri Capri Awards Retrieved March 15 2018 MONDAY President Obama to Award 2011 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal The White House February 10 2012 Retrieved March 15 2018 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medals announced Los Angeles Times February 10 2012 2011 National Medals of Arts and Humanities Ceremony on YouTube The Obama White House February 13 2012 Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize www weinsteinpoetryprize org Retrieved March 15 2018 Poet Rita Dove named OSU s 2016 Stone Award winner Oregon State University Press Release August 13 2015 Krug Nora October 6 2016 2016 National Book Awards Colson Whitehead Kate DiCamillo among finalists The Washington Post Archived from the original on December 11 2023 Retrieved December 11 2023 Treadway Sandra Gioia Dove Shetterly Brown and Baldacci Receive Literary Awards 2017 recipients honored at the Library of Virginia Library of Virginia Rita Dove receives the Callaloo Lifetime Achievement Award YouTube October 16 2017 Rita Dove Kenyon Reiew Rita Dove Honored with 2019 Wallace Stevens Award by Harriet Staff Poetry Foundation May 25 2021 Hurston Wright Legacy Award North Star Award Merit Awards Queen Latifah Rita Dove and Robert Smith Receive Annual W E B Du Bois Medal News the Harvard Crimson Pulitzer Prize poet Rita Dove wins CCNY s Langston Hughes Medal The City University of New York June 20 2019 Yehudi Wyner Rita Dove and Phong Bui Receive Highest Honors American Academy of Arts and Letters Bromley Anne E April 15 2022 UVA Adds Dove Portrait and Bus Stop Marker to Honor Recent History UVA Today Poetry Foundation Makes History Honoring 2022 Pegasus Awardees Poetry Foundation September 8 2022 Library of Congress Awards Bobbitt Poetry Prizes to Rita Dove and Heid e Erdrich Library of Congress November 15 2022 National Book Foundation to Present Lifetime Achievement Award to Rita Dove National Book Awards Archived from the original on November 20 2023 Retrieved December 11 2023 https poets org academy american poets presented leadership awards poetry advocates launching its ninetieth APS Member History search amphilsoc org Retrieved December 10 2021 https uva theopenscholar com rita dove news rita dove joins board american academy arts and letters ODJFS Online SEARCH the Ohio Women s Hall of Fame www odjfs state oh us Retrieved March 15 2018 Virginia Women in History 2018 Rita Dove www lva virginia gov June 30 2016 Retrieved March 15 2018 Fred Viebahn The Open Sscholar Rita Dove Virginia G Piper Center for Creative Writing Aviva Dove Viebahn iSearch Forsicht Rita and Fred dancing YouTube Rita Dove The Open Scholar May 3 2023 External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Rita Dove Appearances on C SPAN The Rita Dove Homepage at University of Virginia with resource listing of video articles etc Retrieved November 2 2010 Audio Rita Dove at the Key West Literary Seminar 2010 How Does a Shadow Shine Retrieved November 2 2010 Poems by Rita Dove and biography at PoetryFoundation org Retrieved November 2 2010 Interview Rita Dove at the Academy of American Poets Poems audio interviews Retrieved November 2 2010 Rita Dove The Bridgetower poem The New Yorker November 24 2008 Retrieved November 2 2010 Essays poems interview about Dove at Modern American Poetry University of Illinois Retrieved November 2 2010 Rita Dove on the Future of Literature The Smithsonian August 2010 Rita Dove A Selective Bibliography Project Muse Retrieved December 1 2015 Women of Color Women of Words biography Rutgers University Retrieved April 4 2018 Extended Interview Rita Dove Interviewed by Jeffrey Brown on PBS Newshour December 2011 on the topic of 20th century American poetry as collected in The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry Retrieved February 11 2017 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rita Dove amp oldid 1205294232, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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