Resultado da Busca
Rita Frances Dove est la fille de Ray Dove (premier chimiste afro-américain à travailler pour Goodyear) et d'Elvira Elizabeth Dove (née Hord), la deuxième de leurs quatre enfants. Ses parents sont soucieux de son éducation et vont l'encourager à réussir sa scolarité, à passer outre aux préjugés racistes.
1 de set. de 2021 · Rita Dove has been named as the recipient of the 2023 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the National Book Foundation's lifetime achievement award, to be celebrated at the National Book Awards ceremony in New York on November 15.
29 de abr. de 2021 · One of those who paved the way for Amanda Gorman and so many other emerging poets is Rita Dove, who in 1993 became, at age 40, the youngest U.S. Poet Laureate and the first Black poet to hold that position. (Gwendolyn Brooks had been named Consultant in Poetry by the Library of Congress in 1985.) In 1986, her collection Thomas and Beulah was ...
15 de set. de 2021 · Rita Dove: I wish I could explain the mystery of that moment where everything sparks and starts to come together. But what I love to do is to wrestle with the language, because language is what a ...
14 de jul. de 2020 · Contact Information for Rita Dove. If you would like to contact Rita Dove please direct your inquiries as suggested below: Reading and Event Requests: If you would like to schedule Dove for a reading or other event, contact Stephanie Gunst, assistant to Rita Dove at the University of Virginia, at (434) 924-6618 or [email protected] External.
Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995 and as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. She has received numerous literary and academic honors, among them the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and, more recently, the 2003 […]
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 ...
