Interview with Sophie Hay, The Cavalier Daily, February 24, 2025
Interview with Caitlin Doyle, Literary Matters (winter/spring 2025)
Interview with Alex Burger, ArtsATL, January 13, 2025
Interview with Kevin Young, Paris Review (spring 2023)
"Rita Dove: 'Set Phasers To Poem,'" NPR's Ask Me Another, originally broadcast in 2019
Interview with William Walsh, The Georgia Review (spring 2016)
Interview with Claire Schwartz, Virginia Quarterly Review (winter 2016)
Interview with Bill Moyers, American Public Television, February 2012
“Rita Dove: National Medal of Arts Recipient,” NEA podcast, February 2012
“Rita Dove on the Leonard Lopate Show," NPR, December 2011
“In Anthology, Rita Dove connects..." PBS Newshour, December 2011
“Fridays on the Newshour: Rita Dove” – additional web only material to PBS Newshour program above, Dec. 2011.
“Until the Fulcrum Tips” – an excellent and thorough online interview by Jericho Brown
"Editing The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry," Rita Dove’s Writers Chronicle interview, December 2011
Rita Dove’s 2011 reading at the White House, with President Obama’s introduction, May 2011
White House Poetry Workshop, with Rita Dove and Billy Collins, intro by Michelle Obama, moderated by Elizabeth Alexander, May 2011
Radio interview on KUOW-Seattle (mp3) (KUOW website), May 13, 2010
"How Does A Shadow Shine?", a reading from the Key West Literary Seminar (audio only), January 2010
interview with Rita Dove by Robert McDowell, with some of her poems about dancing in the fall 2003 issue of American Poet
interview with Rita Dove by Elizabeth Alexander in the Oct./Nov. 2005 issue of Writer's Chonicle, the magazine of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs
interview with Rita Dove by Camille Dungy in Callaloo, Vol. 28, No. 4 (2005)
article in the Hong Kong magazine The Peninsula, Spring 2007
Rita Dove reading her poem “American Smooth” at the Dodge Poetry Festival. The video is introduced by Garrison Keillor.