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Rita Dove
Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate, is the only poet honored with both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts. Her recent works include Playlist for the Apocalypse, Sonata Mulattica, and the National Book Award-shortlisted Collected Poems: 1974-2004. In 2021 she was awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2023 she received the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lives in Charlottesville, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.
Rita Dove
Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate, is the only poet honored with both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts. Her recent works include Playlist for the Apocalypse, Sonata Mulattica, and the National Book Award-shortlisted Collected Poems: 1974-2004. In 2021 she was awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2023 she received the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lives in Charlottesville, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.
Awards
Commended — New York Times Notable Selection, 1999
Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 1999
Winner — New York Times Notable Selection, 2004
Winner — Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, 2010
Nominated — NAACP Image Award, 2017
Shortlisted — National Book Award, 2016
Winner — Library of Virginia Literary Award, 2017
Shortlisted — NAACP Image Award, 2022
Shortlisted — Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2021
Shortlisted — Library of Virginia Literary Award, 2022
Books by Rita Dove
Collected Poems: 1974–2004
Rita Dove
E Book, 2016
Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume.Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
Rita Dove
E Book, 2021
A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from “perhaps the best public poet we have” (The Boston Globe).Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
Rita Dove
Paperback, 2023
A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from “perhaps the best public poet we have” (The Boston Globe)