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    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...
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    Rita Dove: An American Poet is a 2014 documentary film produced, directed and edited by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. It is a biographical sketch of U.S. Poet...
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    idea of providing poetry in airports, supermarkets, and hotel rooms. Rita Dove, considered the first activist poet laureate, brought together writers...
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  • Thomas and Beulah is a book of poems by American poet Rita Dove that tells the semi-fictionalized chronological story of her maternal grandparents, the...
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  • included Philip Glass, Jimmy Carter, Salman Rushdie, Seamus Heaney and Rita Dove. Rita Dove also gave the keynote address at Emory's 2013 Commencement. The Barkley...
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    Abbott Earladeen Badger Hallie Brown JoAnn Davidson Raquel Diaz-Sprague Rita Dove Mary Ignatia Gavin Sara J. Harper Donna Hawk June Holley Martha C. Moore...
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  • Movements and a Short Play is a collection of poems by U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove, published in 2009, about the life of George Bridgetower. Bridgetower...
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  • Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, and U.S. Representative Susan Brooks of Indiana. Rita Dove, a Pulitzer Prize winner and the first African-American United States...
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    faculty member Carolyn Kizer, 1985 Pulitzer for Yin, former faculty member Rita Dove, 1987 Pulitzer for Thomas and Beulah, MFA, 1977 Mona Van Duyn, 1991 Pulitzer...
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  • novel Some of Tim's Stories (2007), short stories Great Women Writers, Rita Dove, S.E. Hinton, and Maya Angelou (Princeton NJ: Hacienda Productions, 1999)...
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    Terrence Malick and starring Q'orianka Kilcher as Pocahontas Pocahontas: Dove of Peace (2016), a docudrama produced by Christian Broadcasting Network Davis...
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  • Austria. 1997. Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, (eds) “Rita Dove” and “Jamaica Kincaid” (literary biographies) in Encyclopedia of African...
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  • verse play written by Rita Dove. Her first full-length play, originally conceived in 1979, it was published in 1994, while Dove was serving as United...
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    Abbott Earladeen Badger Hallie Brown JoAnn Davidson Raquel Diaz-Sprague Rita Dove Mary Ignatia Gavin Sara J. Harper Donna Hawk June Holley Martha C. Moore...
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  • long-time jury chairman Ashley Montagu, a renowned anthropologist, asked poet Rita Dove and scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. to help him judge the large number of...
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    directed by Frank Borzage, Universal Pictures, played by Ginger Rogers Brown, Rita Mae, Dolley: A Novel of Dolley Madison in Love and War, New York: Bantam...
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    Harrison McCraw Undine Smith Moore Martha Rollins 2018 Gaye Todd Adegbalola Rita Dove Isabella Gibbons Marii Kyogoku Hasegawa Kay Coles James Barbara Kingsolver...
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    Congressman Paul D. Tonko. Former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove wrote the poem "The Abduction" about Northup, published in her first collection...
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  • (born 1945), Canadian journalist Rita Dove (born 1952), American poet Rita Clay Estrada (born 1941), romance novelist Rita Ferro (writer) (born 1955), Portuguese...
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    Harrison McCraw Undine Smith Moore Martha Rollins 2018 Gaye Todd Adegbalola Rita Dove Isabella Gibbons Marii Kyogoku Hasegawa Kay Coles James Barbara Kingsolver...
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    playing. On March 20, 2009, Tinsley appeared with former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville when she launched her poetry...
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    seven-piece song cycle based on the texts of former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove. It had its world premiere by the Boston Symphony under Williams with...
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  • On the Bus with Rosa Parks is a book of poems by Rita Dove. Rosa Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal...
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    December 31, 1999. In 2000, he made a successful stage appearance in Rita Dove's drama The Darker Face of the Earth at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles...
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  • Dion (born 1978) Lonnie Dixon (1932–2011) Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) Rita Dove (born 1952), poet and educator. Youngest person and first Black American...
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    Harrison McCraw Undine Smith Moore Martha Rollins 2018 Gaye Todd Adegbalola Rita Dove Isabella Gibbons Marii Kyogoku Hasegawa Kay Coles James Barbara Kingsolver...
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  • 2020: Walter Mosley 2021: Karen Tei Yamashita 2022: Art Spiegelman 2023: Rita Dove Five of the seventeen medalists through 2004 were previous National Book...
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    Montes-Bradley (born July 1960) is a documentary filmmaker known for Evita, Rita Dove: An American Poet, and Harto The Borges. His most recent films are Black...
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    Harrison McCraw Undine Smith Moore Martha Rollins 2018 Gaye Todd Adegbalola Rita Dove Isabella Gibbons Marii Kyogoku Hasegawa Kay Coles James Barbara Kingsolver...
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    Abbott Earladeen Badger Hallie Brown JoAnn Davidson Raquel Diaz-Sprague Rita Dove Mary Ignatia Gavin Sara J. Harper Donna Hawk June Holley Martha C. Moore...
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