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Rita Frances Dove (Akron, 28 agosto 1952) è una poetessa e scrittrice statunitense. Nel 1987 è stata la seconda afroamericana a vincere il Premio Pulitzer per la poesia (dopo Gwendolyn Brooks nel 1950 ).
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 ...
Rita Dove (she/her) was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. A 1970 Presidential Scholar, she attended Miami University of Ohio, Universität Tübingen in Germany, and the University of Iowa, where she earned her creative writing MFA in 1977.
Rita Dove, American poet, writer, and teacher who was the first African American to serve as poet laureate of the United States (1993–95). Her poems often centered on family life and personal struggle, addressing the larger social and political dimension of the Black experience primarily by indirection.
5 giu 2019 · Rita Dove - The author of numerous collections of poetry, Rita Dove served as the US Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995 and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2005 to 2011.
Dove is an inspirational figure for African-Americans and for women, and her own work reflects these two important facets of her life, featuring many iconic names including Billie Holiday, Rosa Parks and Hattie McDaniel.
A member of PEN America, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Rita Dove holds the chair of Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she lives with her husband, the writer Fred Viebahn.
