Rita Dove
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and author. 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. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006.
Early life
Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, to Ray Dove, the first African-American chemist to work in the U.S. tire industry (as research chemist at Goodyear), and Elvira Hord, who achieved honors in high school and would share her passion for reading with her daughter. 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. In 1974 she held a Fulbright Scholarship from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1977.
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- Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, 1888-2006 released: 2006
- Poetry Speaks to Children released: 2005
- In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry released: 1996
Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, 1888-2006
Released 2006- The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Come Into the Garden, Maud
- How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix (excerpt)
- America (excerpt)
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- The Song of the Old Mother
- Lucinda Matlock
- Emily Sparks
- The Creation
- If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso
- The Road Not Taken
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- The People, Yes (excerpt)
- So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch
- The Red Wheelbarrow
- To Elsie
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (excerpt)
- Helen in Egypt (excerpt)
- Journey of the Magi (with Introduction)
- Recuerdo
- Love Is Not All
- Résumé
- The Lady's Reward
- As Freedom Is a Breakfastfood
- To Juan at the Winter Solstice
- John Brown's Body (excerpt)
- Strong Men
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers (with intro)
- The Weary Blues (with intro)
- Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man
- King of the River
- The Caves of Nakedness
- I Knew a Woman
- Elegy for Jane
- Late Air
- The Fish
Poetry Speaks to Children
Released 2005- The First Book
- The Quarrel
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Wolf
- The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves
- The Adventures of Isabel
- On a Flimmering Floom You Shall Ride
- The Dentist and the Crocodile
- Bear Song
- Jabberwocky
- Sneeze
- Okay, Brown Girl, Okay - Introduction
- Okay, Brown Girl, Okay
- Vowel Owl (Roger)
- Frodo’s Song in Bree
- Eagle Poem
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Introduction
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers
- About the Teeth of Sharks
- My Sister Saw a Dinosaur
- Joey - Introduction
- Joey
- Rabbit - Introduction
- Rabbit
- Balloons
- The Reason I Like Chocolate
- Trips
- Mommies
- Good Luck Gold - Introduction
- Good Luck Gold
- Crying
- Art Class
- How to Paint a Donkey
- A Faery Song
- The Unicorn
- The Lion and the Lily
- The Ghost and Jenny Jemima
- The Raven
- Sheep Party
- Jamaican Song
- Count to Ten and We’ll Be There
- opposite poem 4
- opposite poem 7
- opposite poem 20
- Casey at the Bat
- A Poem for Jesse
- To P.J.
- Summer - Introduction
- Summer
- Winter - Introduction
- Winter
- Knoxville, Tennessee
- The Tyger
- Conversation with a Mouse
- On Turning Ten
- How to Stay Up Late
- Flashlight
- Maturity
- Brother - Introduction
- Brother
In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry
Released 1996- I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face
- Dear John, Dear Coltrane
- We were so poor...
- I was stolen by the gypsies...
- Everybody knows the story...
- Lester Leaps In
- For Poets
- A Dance for Militant Diletantes
- Odysseus to Telemachus
- Ode to My Shoes
- Prayer
- Translator's Son
- Wonder
- The Lost Pilot
- One Kiss
- The Tent People of Beverly Hills
- Uh Oh Plutonium
- The Fine Printing on the Label of a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer
- The Sweat Lodge
- Logan Heights and the World
- The Colonel
- Wild Gratitude
- For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash
- Tia Sophia
- This Is Number 26
- I Am Offering You This Poem
- Parsley
- Raisin Eyes
- The Children's Undercroft
- The Concrete River
- Tia Chucha
- My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Aloud
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