The Library of Congress will award the 2022 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry to former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove for lifetime achievement and to Heid E. Erdrich for her poetry...
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Rita Dove, Carolyn Eastman and Jocelyn Nicole Johnson were the top winners at the 25th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards on Saturday.
Best-selling author Adriana Trigiani hosted the...
Virginia author and executive director of James Madison University's Furious Flower Poetry Center Lauren K. Alleyne moderates a discussion with poetry award finalists Sandra Beasley, author of "Made...
The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 Pegasus Awards, a family of literary prizes that include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Young People’s Poet Laureate, and the...
Rita Dove's "A Poetry Reading," one of two readings she gave at the Sun Valley Writers' Conference (SVWC), is now available to stream on the SVWC website! To access, please visit svwc.com and click on...
Nine finalists, including Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, have been selected for the 25th annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards.
The awards honor Virginia writers...
On May 13, 2022, Rita Dove received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Iowa, where she received her MFA in 1977 (Iowa Writers Workshop). It's her 29th honorary degree to date! The...
The 30th Annual Authors Guild Foundation Gala honored Amanda Gorman with the AGF Award for Literature with Social Impact on May 9, 2022. As part of the celebration, Rita Dove and Amanda Gorman...
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Published in 1986, Thomas and Beulah is a poetry collection, that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, inspired by the lives of Rita Dove's grandparents.
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Poet Rita Dove and the location known as “the Black Bus Stop” are the latest subjects of the University of Virginia’s recent...