Although Rita Dove has won most of the honors available to an American poet — she was the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 1986 collection “Thomas and Beulah,” ...

Miami University alumni Rita Dove and Wil Haygood are being recognized for their literary accomplishments. Dove (Miami ’73), a Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate, is receiving the ...

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. “It may seem like a ...

In commemoration of National Poetry Month, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rita Dove reads her poem "Ludwig Von Beethoven's Return to Vienna" from her book Sonata Mulatica. The poem imagines Beethoven ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove turned 11 on Aug. 28, 1963. Her family had traveled to Washington from Akron so her father could attend the March on Washington. Dove was not allowed to march, so ...

Rita Dove, one of the nation’s most preeminent poets, has published a novel, a play, a book of short stories and nine collections of verse, including one that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She ...

Words matter. And Rita Dove's words matter tremendously to untold numbers of readers, including me. As our former U.S. poet laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author of hundreds of poems, a novel ...

Rita Dove stands on stage during Harvard University commencement exercises, Thursday, May 24, 2018, in Cambridge, Mass. Dove is this year's winner of an honorary National Book Award for Distinguished ...

Recipient of many of the nation’s highest cultural honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the NAACP Great American Artist Award, a Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, the Duke Ellington Lifetime ...