Birth Name:

Rita Dove

Female

Birth Date:

Thu, Aug 28, 1952

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Akron, Ohio, United States

Age:

72

Zodiac Sign:

Virgo

Astrology Data:

Sun

5°

Vir

16'

About Rita Dove

Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86). Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Appearances on C-SPAN

• The Rita Dove Homepage at University of Virginia, with resource listing of video, articles etc. Retrieved November 2, 2010

• Audio: Rita Dove at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2010: "How Does a Shadow Shine?" Retrieved November 2, 2010

• Poems by Rita Dove and biography at PoetryFoundation.org. Retrieved November 2, 2010

• Interview: Rita Dove at the Academy of American Poets. Poems, audio, interviews. Retrieved November 2, 2010

• Rita Dove, "The Bridgetower" (poem), The New Yorker, November 24, 2008. Retrieved November 2, 2010

• Essays, poems, interview about Dove at Modern American Poetry, University of Illinois. Retrieved November 2, 2010

• "Rita Dove on the Future of Literature", The Smithsonian, August 2010

• "Rita Dove: A Selective Bibliography", Project Muse. Retrieved December 1, 2015

• Women of Color, Women of Words biography, Rutgers University. Retrieved April 4, 2018

• Extended Interview: Rita Dove. Interviewed by Jeffrey Brown on PBS Newshour, December 2011, on the topic of 20th-century American poetry, as collected in The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Retrieved February 11, 2017

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Rita Dove: Sun 5 Virgo, Moon 7 Sagittarius, Mercury 17 Leo, Venus 23 Virgo, Mars 0 Sagittarius, Jupiter 20 Taurus, Saturn 12 Libra, Uranus 17 Cancer, Neptune 19 Libra, Pluto 21 Leo, Mercury Sextile Neptune, Sun Square Mars, Sun Semi Square Neptune, Mercury Square Jupiter, Mercury Semi Sextile Uranus, Mercury Conjunct Pluto, Venus Trine Jupiter, Venus Semi Sextile Pluto, Mars Semi Square Saturn, Mars Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Jupiter Sextile Uranus, Jupiter Quincunx Neptune, Jupiter Square Pluto, Saturn Square Uranus, Saturn Conjunct Neptune, Uranus Square Neptune, Neptune Sextile Pluto

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