Rita Frances Dove Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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.
United States Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Humanities Medal, National Medal of Arts, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry, Glamour Woman of the Year Award
Nominations
National Book Award for Poetry, National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
Star Sign
Virgo
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Fact
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Charlottesville, Virginia: Poet [February 2012]
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She was awarded the 2011 American National Medal of the Arts for her services to literature on February 13, 2012.
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 132, pp. 132-138. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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Won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for her poetry collection "Thomas and Beulah."
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(1993-1995) Poet Laureate of the United States
Actress
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Faces in the Mirror
2012
Roberta
Writer
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United States of Poetry
1995
TV Mini-Series documentary poem
Self
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Unearthed & Understood
2014
Short
Herself
Rita Dove: An American Poet
2014
Documentary
Herself
Moyers & Company
2012
TV Series
Herself
Fulbright: The Man, the Mission, and the Message
2011
Documentary
Herself
Def Poetry
2004
TV Series documentary
Herself
Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95