![]() ![]() ![]() They have a grown daughter, Aviva Dove-Viebahn. She is the editor of Best American Poetry 2000, and from January 2000 to January 2002 she wrote a weekly column, “Poet’s Choice”, for The Washington Post.ĭove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she lives with her husband, the writer Fred Viebahn. For “America’s Millennium,” the White House’s 1999/2000 New Year’s celebration, Dove contributed - in a live reading at the Lincoln Memorial, accompanied by John Williams’ music - a poem to Steven Spielberg’s documentary The Unfinished Journey. Seven for Luck, a song cycle for soprano and orchestra with music by John Williams, was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in 1998. In 2006 she received the coveted Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service (together with Anderson Cooper, John Glenn, Mike Nichols and Queen Noor of Jordan).ĭove 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), and the play The Darker Face of the Earth, which had its world premiere in 1996 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and was subsequently produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Royal National Theatre in London and other theatres. After earning a National Merit Scholarship and ranking among the nation's top 100 high school seniors in 1970, she accepted a Presidential Scholarship and a tour of the White House. Dove intended to make the most of her talents. She discovered her gift for word manipulation in early childhood. She has received numerous literary and academic honors, among them the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and, more recently, the 2003 Emily Couric Leadership Award, the 2001 Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1997 Sara Lee Frontrunner Award, the 1997 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, the 1996 Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities and the 1996 National Humanities Medal. Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, on August 28, 1952. A 1970 Presidential Scholar, she attended Miami University of Ohio, Universitt Tbingen in Germany, and the University of Iowa, where she earned her creative writing MFA in 1977. Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995 and Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. 1952 Photo courtesy of the poet Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. She also held a Fulbright scholarship at the Universität Tübingen in Germany. degree summa cum laude from Miami University of Ohio and her M.F.A. A 1970 Presidential Scholar, she received her B.A. Former Poet Laureate of the United States Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1952. ![]()
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