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Early in her tenure as poet laureate, Dove was featured by Bill Moyers in a one-hour interview on his PBS prime-time program Bill Moyers Journal. At the age of 40, Dove was the youngest person in the position and the first African American since the title was changed to Poet Laureate ( Robert Hayden had served as the first non-white Consultant in Poetry from 1976 to 1978, and Gwendolyn Brooks had been the last Consultant in Poetry in 1985–86). In May 1993 she was named United States Poet Laureate by the Librarian of Congress, an office she held until 1995. She received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, 15:43, C-SPAN ĭove taught creative writing at Arizona State University from 1981 to 1989. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1977.Ĭ-SPAN Former U.S. Some of her poems translated in French by Paol Keineg where published in the Breton review "Bretagnes" in 1976. From 1974 to 1975 she held a Fulbright Scholarship from University of Tübingen, Germany. Later, Dove graduated summa cum laude with a B.A.

In 1970, Dove graduated from Buchtel High School as a Presidential Scholar. tire industry (as a research chemist at Goodyear), and Elvira Hord, who achieved honors in high school and would share her passion for reading with her daughter. Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, to Ray Dove, one of the first African-American chemists to work in the U.S. Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020 as of 2020, she holds the chair of Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86). From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist.