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Rita Dove

Rita Dove

Copland House

Trailer: "A Standing Witness," an operatic performance by poet Rita Dove and composer Richard Danielpour

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Mercer University

"Mercer University’s Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies will award the 2024 Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature to Rita Dove"

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National Book Foundation

"National Book Foundation to Present Lifetime Achievement Award to Rita Dove"

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The New York Times, Dwight Garner

"A Poem About Dance and the Hard Work of Transcendence"

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Library of Congress

Rita Dove wins a 2022 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize for Poetry

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Washingtonian, Jessica Ruf

"How the Folger Shakespeare Library Got a New Rita Dove Poem"

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The Paris Review, Kevin Young

Rita Dove, The Art of Poetry No. 113

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T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Jess Cole

Two Poets Who Debated Every Syllable: Rita Dove taught Safiya Sinclair that “it’s OK to say a thing plainly.”

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Iowa Public Radio, Charity Nebbe & Matthew Alvarez

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove reflects on her Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection and her grandparents' love

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Poetry Foundation

2022 Pegasus Awards: Rita Dove receives a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

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University News, Jane Kelly

New ‘Inside UVA’ Episode Features Lauded Poet Rita Dove