Rita Dove has been named as the recipient of the 2023 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the National Book Foundation's lifetime achievement award, to be celebrated at the...
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Here is Rita Dove's culinary take on a dessert recipe, with her essay about a related experience in the Sinai desert in 1979. From the September print issue of BON APPETIT.
On August 4, 2023, The New York Times published Dwight Garner's brilliant interactive "close read" interpretation of Rita Dove's poem "American Smooth".
It's the third time that the NYT included...
On the occasion of this year's Granada International Poetry Festival in Spain, Valparaiso Ediciones published a complete translation of Rita Dove's Playlist for the Apocalypse under the title Cancione...
The New York Times's T Magazine recently released their "Legends and Heirs" series, pairings of women in different stages of their careers, each who inspired the other. Here is the profile of Rita...
Kevin Young, poet and current director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, interviewed Rita Dove for The Paris Review's Spring 2023 issue (out now). Below is an excerpt; vi...
Lebanese writer and scholar Joumana Haddad spoke with Rita Dove at length for an interview that is now included in Haddad's collection of conversations, En busca de los ladrones del fuego: Entrevistas...
In January 2023 Rita Dove joined the governing board of the venerable American Academy of Arts and Letters for a three year term. On April 11 she attended her first in-person board meeting at the...
A good "poem sampler" dedicated to Rita Dove's work, interspersed with intriguing notes and interpretations, was just published by the Poetry Foundation. Visit this link for the full post!
The April 2023 issue of ADROIT JOURNAL carries, under the title "Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry", Lisa Russ Spaar's enlightened review of Rita Dove's 1983 collection Museum...