11/10/2023 0 Comments Daystar by rita dovefashions imaginative constructs that strike the reader as much by their 'rightness' as their originality." Using her poetry, she recounts the lives of her two grandparents, telling both sides of their story: Thomas first, and then Beulah, which in a sense gives her the last word. One critic wrote "he speaks with a directness and a dramatic intensity that commands attention. Thomas and Beulah, another collection of poems is probably her most famous piece of literature. It was received well by most critics and caught the attention of her peers. It is a collection of poems dealing with various topics and experiences such as adolescence, romantic encounters, and glimpses into slave history. Rita Dove's first work, The Yellow House on the Corner was published in 1980. Dove was also responsible for writing the text for Alvin Singleton's symphony "Umoja - Each One of Us Counts," which was comissioned by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games to be performed during the opening festivities of last summer's Olympic Games held in Atlanta. In 1995 she along with Jimmy Carter, welcomed a gathering of Nobel Laureates in Literature to the city of Atlanta, Georgia hosted by the Cultural Olympiad of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. She has been given the Folger Shakespere Library's Renaissance Forum Award, the General Electric Foundation award, as well as many other honors. She won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book of poems, Thomas and Beulah. She was named Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine and given the NAACP Great American Artist Award, both in 1993. She has held residencies at Tuskegee Institute, the National Humanities Center and the Rockefeller Foundation's Villa Serbelloni in Italy. Dove has been given honorary doctorates from several different universities and colleges. She has also been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts in 19 and from the Guggenheim Foundation in 1983-84. She was the youngest person ever appointed to that position as well as the first African American ever appointed. She was the seventh Poet Laureate/Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995. She is presently a Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia where she teaches creative writing.ĭove has been the recipient of many prestigous awards and has held various seats and positions. Together, the two currently reside in Charlottesville, Virginia with their daughter Aviva. It was there where she met her husband to be, German novelist and playwright Fred Viebahn. She also received her Masters of Fine Arts degree at the University of Iowa. ![]() Dove went on to graduate summa cum laude from Miami University of Ohio, and then to study German at the UniversitÉt TÄbingen, where she would become a Fulbright Scholar. As a child, the young Dove had a particular fondness and passion for books and said that her parents encouraged her to read anything that she pleased her parents valued and understood the importance of an education. Her father was a research chemist at the Goodyear plant in Akron and her mother, a homemaker. Rita Dove was born in the year 1952 in the city of Akron, Ohio.
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