Rita Dove https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rita-dove Rita Dove’s Biography: Mrs. Rita Dove was born in the city of Akron, Ohio in 1952. Rita attended Miami University of Ohio, and the University of Iowa, where she earned her creative writing MFA in 1977. In 1987, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her third collection of poetry, Thomas and Beulah. From 1993 to 1995, she served as U.S. Poet Laureate at the Library of Congress. She is also an a uthor of a novel, a book of short stories, essays, and numerous volumes of poetry, among them the National Book Award finalist and NAACP Image Award winner. Rita also edited The Best American Poetry 2000 and the Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry in 2011. Dove wrote poetry columns for the New York Times Magazine from 2018 to 2019 and The Washington Post from 2000 to 2002 . Her song cycle Seven for Luck , with music by John Williams, was premiered by Cynthia Haymon with the Boston Symphony in 1998, and her ...
