In this article, we will delve into 15 essential Rita Dove poems that everyone should read, analyzing the themes, structure, ...

American Smooth by Rita Dove We were dancing—it must have been a foxtrot or a waltz, something romantic but requiring restraint, rise and fall, precise execution as we moved into the next song ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Poet Rita Dove has a sharp, simple goal in response to receiving a National Book Award for lifetime achievement: “I want it to be a milestone, not a tombstone.” ...

Bellringer: Celebrating the Poetry of Rita Dove brings together the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and composer and ...

Poet Rita Dove is this year's winner of an honorary National Book Award for “Distinguished Contribution to American Letters,” a lifetime achievement prize previously given to Toni Morrison and ...

Rita Dove, a graduate of Miami University and current English professor at the University of Virginia-Charlottesville, was featured on the Jan. 21 episode.

Rita Dove: I landed on Safiya’s work in 2011 when she applied for the creative writing program at the University of Virginia — and to paraphrase Emily Dickinson, she took the top of my head ...

Poet Rita Dove will read excerpts from her poetry collection "Sonata Mulattica" on Jan. 17 at Emory University’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.

NEW YORK (AP) — Poet Rita Dove has a sharp, simple goal in response to receiving a National Book Award for lifetime achievement: “I want it to be a milestone, not a tombstone.” ...

NEW YORK — Poet Rita Dove has a sharp, simple goal in response to receiving a National Book Award for lifetime achievement: “I want it to be a milestone, not a tombstone.”“It may seem like ...

Poet Rita Dove is this year's winner of an honorary National Book Award for “Distinguished Contribution to American Letters,” a lifetime achievement prize previously given to Toni Morrison and ...

Poet Rita Dove is this year's winner of an honorary National Book Award for “Distinguished Contribution to American Letters,” a lifetime achievement prize previously given to Toni Morrison and ...