Background
Dove, Rita Frances was born on August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Ray A. and Elvira E. (Hord) Dove.
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Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award Finalist for the 2017 NAACP Image Award Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume. Rita Doves Collected Poems 19742004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of U.S. poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume compiles Doves fresh reflections on adolescence in The Yellow House on the Corner and her irreverent musings in Museum. She sets the moving love story of Thomas and Beulah against the backdrop of war, industrialization, and the civil right struggles. The multifaceted gems of Grace Notes, the exquisite reinvention of Greek myth in the sonnets of Mother Love, the troubling rapids of recent history in On the Bus with Rosa Parks, and the homage to Americas kaleidoscopic cultural heritage in American Smooth all celebrate Doves mastery of narrative context with lyrical finesse. With the precise, singing lines for which the Washington Post praised her, Dove has created fresh configurations of the traditional and the experimental (Poetry magazine).
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(A reissuing of Museum, poems by Rita Dove.)
A reissuing of Museum, poems by Rita Dove.
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(Penguins landmark poetry anthology, perfect for learning...)
Penguins landmark poetry anthology, perfect for learning poems by heart in the age of ephemeral media Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years in The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Now available in paperback, this indispensable volume represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilitieswith varying styles, voices, themes, and cultureswhile balancing important poems with vital periods of each poet. Featuring works by Mary Oliver, Derek Walcott, John Ashbery, Gwendolyn Brooks, Kevin Young, Terrance Hayes, Li-Young Lee, Joanna Klink and A.E. Stallings, Doves selections paint a dynamic and cohesive portrait of modern American poetry.
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Lawrence's landmark series on African American migration in context In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades-long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 191516. The child of migrant parents, Lawrence worked partly from his own experience and partly from long research in his neighborhood library. The result was an epic narrative of the collective history of his people. Moving from scenes of terror and violence to images of great intimacy, and drawing on film, photography, political cartoons and other sources in popular culture, Lawrence created an innovative format of sequential panels, each image accompanied by a descriptive caption. Within months of its completion, the series entered the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Phillips Memorial Gallery (today The Phillips Collection), Washington, DC, each institution acquiring 30 panels. The Migration Series is now a landmark in the history of modern art. Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series, now in paperback, grounds Lawrences work in the cultural and political debates that shaped his art and demonstrates its relevance for artists and writers today. The series is reproduced in full; short texts accompanying each panel relate them to the history of the Migration and explore Lawrences technique and approach. Alongside scholarly essays, the book also includes 11 newly commissioned poems, by Rita Dove, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, Yusef Komunyakaa, Patricia Spears Jones, Natasha Trethewey, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Crystal Williams and Kevin Young, that respond directly to the series. The distinguished poet Elizabeth Alexander edited and introduces the section.
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Detailing the volatile relationship between the black violinist George Bridgetower and Beethoven, this is a "masterful collection" (Los Angeles Times). The son of a white woman and an African Prince, George Polgreen Bridgetower (17801860) travels to Vienna to meet bad-boy genius Ludwig van Beethoven. The great composers subsequent sonata is originally dedicated to the young mulatto, but George, exuberant with acclaim, offends Beethoven over a woman. From this crucial encounter evolves a grandiose yet melancholy poetic tale. A New Yorker's A Year's Reading; Booklist Editors Choice Award.
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"Rita Dove pulls the ultimate dance trick: she makes it look easy."--New York Times Book Review An occasion to celebrate: a new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate; her first since On the Bus with Rosa Parks. With the grace of an Astaire, Rita Dove's magnificent poems pay homage to our kaleidoscopic cultural heritage; from the glorious shimmer of an operatic soprano to Bessie Smith's mournful wail; from paradise lost to angel food cake; from hotshots at the local shooting range to the Negro jazz band in World War I whose music conquered Europe before the Allied advance. Like the ballroom-dancing couple of the title poem, smiling and making the difficult seem effortless, Dove explores the shifting surfaces between perception and intimation.
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( Calling upon the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Pers...)
Calling upon the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, Mother Love examines the love between mother and daughter, two tumblers locked in an eternal somersault: each mother a daughter, each daughter a potential mother. In settings as various as a patio in Arizona, the bistros and boulevards of Paris, the sun-drenched pyramids of Mexico?and directly from the Greek myth itself?Rita Dove explores this relationship and the dilemma of letting go.
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English language educator poet
Dove, Rita Frances was born on August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Ray A. and Elvira E. (Hord) Dove.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1973. Postgraduate, Universität Tübingen, Federal Republic Germany, 1975. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1977.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1988. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Knox College, 1989. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Tuskegee University, 1994.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Miami, Florida, 1994. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Washington University, St. Louis, 1994. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Case Western Reserve University, 1994.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Akron, 1994. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Arizona State University, 1995. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Boston College, 1995.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Dartmouth College, 1995. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Spelman College, 1996. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1996.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University North Carolina, 1997. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Notre Dame, 1997. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Northeastern University, 1997.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Columbia University, 1998. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Washington & Lee University, 1999. Doctor of Laws (honorary), State University of New York, Brockport, 1999.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Pratt Institute, 2001. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Howard University, 2001. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Skidmore College, 2004.
Assistant professor English Arizona State University, Tempe, 1981-1984, associate professor, 1984-1987, professor, 1987-1989, University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1989-1993, Commonwealth professor English, since 1993. United States poet laureate, consultant in poetry Library. of Congress, Washington, 1993-1995, special consultant in poetry, 1999-2000. Columnist Washington Post, 2000—2002.
Writer-in-residence Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 1982. Literature panelist National Endowment Arts, Washington, 1984-1986, chairman poetry grants panel, 1985. Judge Walt Whitman award Academy American Poets, 1990, Pulitzer prize in poetry, 1991, Ruth Lilly prize 1991, National Book award in poetry 1991, 98, Anisfield-Wolf Book awards, since 1992, Shelley Memorial award, 1997, Amy Lowell fellowship, 1997.
Poetry panel chairman Pulitzer prize, 1997. Final judge Brittingham and Pollack prizes, 1997. Juror Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, 1998-1902, Duke Ellington awards, 1999.
Board director Poetry Daily, 2002. Chancellor Academy American Poets, since 2006.
Rita Frances Dove has been listed as a noteworthy Poet, English language educator by Marquis Who's Who.
(Penguins landmark poetry anthology, perfect for learning...)
( Lawrence's landmark series on African American migratio...)
( Calling upon the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Pers...)
( Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award Finalist for...)
( Detailing the volatile relationship between the black v...)
( "Rita Dove pulls the ultimate dance trick: she makes it...)
(A reissuing of Museum, poems by Rita Dove.)
Commissioner The Schomburg Center Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library., since 1987. Member Renaissance Forum Folger Shakespeare Library., 1993-1995, Council Scholars Library. of Congress, since 1994. Member national launch committee AmeriCorps, 1994.
Member awards council American Academy Achievement, 1994-2001. Member advisory board Thomas Jefferson Center Freedom of Expression, since 1994, United States Civil War Center, 1995-1999, Virginia Center Creative Arts, since 1995, Student Achievement and Advocacy Services, since 2002, DuBois Center American History and Culture, since 2005, The Givens Foundation African American Literature, since 2005. The Poets Corner elector Cathedral Church St. John the Divine, New York City, 1991-2002.
Board governors Humanities Research Institute University California, 1996-1999. Board director Poetry Daily, since 2004. Chancellor Academy American Poets, since 2006.
Fellow American Academy Arts & Sciences. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, American Society of Composers, American Philosophical Society, Poetry Society of America, Associated Writing Programs (board director 1985-1988, president 1986-1987), American Academy Achievement (member golden plate awards council 1994—2001), Phi Beta Kappa (senator 1994-2001), Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Fred Viebahn, March 23, 1979. 1 child, Aviva Chantal Tamu Dove-Viebahn.
