Search       Author Login   Register or Login       Ploughshares Emerson College 120 Boylston St. Boston, MA 02116 Authors & Articles > Rita Dove This bio was last updated on 09/28/2004. Rita Dove     Photo by Fred Viebahn Rita Dove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she lives with her husband Fred Viebahn and daughter Aviva. From 1993 to 1995 she served as Poet Laureate of the United States; in 2004 she was appointed Poet Laureate of Virginia. She has received numerous literary and academic honors, among them the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and, more recently, the 1996 Heinz Award, the 1996 National Humanities Medal, the 1997 Sara Lee Frontrunner Award, the 1997 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, the 2000 Library Lion medal from the New York Public Library and the 2001 Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award. Ms. Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. A 1970 Presidential Scholar, she received her B.A. summa cum laude from Miami University of Ohio and her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She also held a Fulbright scholarship at the Universität Tübingen in Germany. She has published the poetry collections The Yellow House on the Corner (1980), Museum (1983), Thomas and Beulah (1986), Grace Notes (1989), Selected Poems (1993), Mother Love (1995), On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999), American Smooth (2004), a book of short stories, Fifth Sunday (1985),the novel Through the Ivory Gate (1992), essays under the title The Poet's World (1995), the play The Darker Face of the Earth (first produced in 1996), and the song cycle Seven for Luck (music by John Williams, first performed in 1998). She edited the anthology Best American Poetry 2000 and from 2000 to 2002 wrote a weekly column, "Poet's Choice", for The Washington Post. Rita Dove's official homepage with additional information, photographs and numerous other links can be found at http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b/ See also: Therese Steffen, CROSSING COLOR -- Transcultural Space and Place in Rita Dove's Poetry, Fiction, and Drama. Oxford University Press, New York 2001. Malin Pereira, Rita Dove's Cosmopolitanism. University of Illinois Press, 2003. Earl G. Ingersoll, Conversations with Rita Dove. University Press of Mississippi, 2003. http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b/ http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b/photo.html Ploughshares issues edited by this author: Spring 1990 Poetry & Fiction Ploughshares articles by or about this author: Staff American Smooth by Rita Dove Editors' Corner   Spring 2006 Staff American Smooth by Rita Dove Editors' Corner   Winter 2004-05 Staff The Cradle Place by Thomas Lux Editors' Corner   Spring 2004 Rita Dove On Angie Hogan Misc.   Winter 2003-04 Staff Contributors' Notes Contributors' Notes   Spring 2003 Rita Dove Bolero Poetry   Spring 2003 Rita Dove Now Poetry   Spring 2003 Staff Contributors' Notes Contributors' Notes   Fall 2001 Rita Dove Mercy Poetry   Fall 2001 Rita Dove The Sisters: Swansong Poetry   Fall 2001 Kevin Young rev. of Domestic Work by Natasha Trethewey Book Review   Winter 2000 Staff On the Bus with Rosa Parks by Rita Dove Editors' Corner   Spring 1999 Staff The Darker Face of the Earth by Rita Dove Editors' Corner   Winter 1996-97 Staff Mother Love by Rita Dove Editors' Corner   Fall 1995 Staff Contributors' Notes Contributors' Notes   Fall 1991 DeWitt Henry Introduction Introduction   Fall 1991 Rita Dove Nike Poetry   Fall 1991 Sam Cornish rev. of Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover's Hands by Martin Espada Book Review   Spring 1991 Staff Contributors' Notes Contributors' Notes   Spring 1990 Rita Dove Introduction Introduction   Spring 1990 Staff Contributors' Notes Contributors' Notes   Winter 1989 Rita Dove Sonnet Poetry   Winter 1989 Rita Dove Missing Poetry   Winter 1989 Rita Dove Rusks Poetry   Winter 1989 Staff Contributors' Notes Contributors' Notes   Spring 1987 Rita Dove Obbligato Poetry   Spring 1987 Rita Dove Fantasy and Science Fiction Poetry   Spring 1987 Rita Dove Hully Gully Poetry   Spring 1987 Staff Contributors' Notes Contributors' Notes   Spring 1984 Seamus Heaney Introduction Introduction   Spring 1984 Rita Dove Quaker Oats Poetry   Spring 1984 Staff Contributors' Notes Contributors' Notes   Summer/Fall 1982 Rita Dove Taking In Wash Poetry   Summer/Fall 1982 Megan Staffel A Length of Wire Fiction   Fall 1979   Books by the Author: American Smooth  (September 2004, Hardcover) Breakfast of Champions (sel. poems in Hebrew tr.)  (2000, Paperback) Det Rosa Er I Oss (sel. poems, in Norwegian tr.)  (1996, Paperback) Die gläserne Stirn der Gegenwart (sel. poems, in German tr.)  (1989, Hardcover) Die morgenländische Tänzerin (sel. poems, in German tr.)  (1988, Hardcover) Evening Primrose (poems, ltd. ed.)  (1998, Hardcover) Fifth Sunday (short stories)  (1985, Paperback) Grace Notes (poems)  (1989, Paperback) Mother Love (poems)  (1995, Paperback) Museum (poems)  (1983, Paperback) On the Bus with Rosa Parks (poems)  (1999, Paperback) Selected Poems  (1993, Paperback) Selected Poems (audio book)  (1993, Audio) The Best American Poetry 2000 (anthology -- editor)  (2000, Paperback) The Darker Face of the Earth (a play -- 3rd. rev. ed.)  (2000, Paperback) The Darker Face of the Earth (a play -- Brit. ed.)  (1999, Paperback) The Darker Face of the Earth, a play (rev. ed.)  (1996, Paperback) The Darker Face of the Earth, a verse play  (1994, Paperback) the poet's world (lectures & essay)  (1995, Paperback) The Yellow House on the Corner (poems)  (1980, Paperback) Thomas and Beulah (poems)  (1986, Paperback) recommended by Ted Genoways Thomas et Beulah (sel. poems in French tr.)  (1999, Paperback) Through the Ivory Gate (novel)  (1992, Paperback) Please read our usage policy.        author list Copyright © 2006 Ploughshares