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Rita Dove was 41 years old when, in 1993, she became poet laureate of the United States—the youngest person and the first African-American to serve in the post.
The film is made in part of a series of in-depth, on-camera, conversations with Poet Laureate Rita Dove—conducted and recorded by Eduardo Montes-Bradley between September 2012, and October 2013. These conversations were later edited using with hundreds of still images and several hours of home movies from the Dove family's collection.. The intimacy of the dialogue accounts for a unique, and ...
Nov 18, 2022 · American poet Rita Dove served as U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry from 1993-1995 at the Library of Congress. This guide provides access to selected print and online resources related to Dove’s life and work.
RITA DOVE: AN AMERICAN POET is structured in eleven parts (chapters): Prologue, nine consecutive "books" - simulating the preference shown by Dove in recent works - and the Epilogue. Each book, numbered with Roman numerals, targets a different aspect of the life and whereabouts of Rita Dove, each of them introduced by the poet reading a poem ...
- 49 min
- Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Apr 6, 2024 · January 24, 2024. On Wednesday, January 24, the Academy of American Poets presented its Leadership Award to Rita Dove, faculty member in the University of Virginia's English department since 1989, at Trinity Wall Street in New York City. It was the Academy's first public in-person event since 2019 and the onset of the Covid pandemic.
Apr 22, 1994 · RITA DOVE: THE PEOPLE'S POET. SPREADING THE EARTHLY JOY OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE SOUL. By Elizabeth Kastor. April 21, 1994 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Her viola da gamba hibernates in the ...
In 1993 Dove became the American Poet Laureate, making her both the youngest recipient of this honour and the first African American. Her many other awards include over twenty honorary doctorates, the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and, in 2006, the Commonwealth Award of Distinguished Service.
