72 years old (Born on August 28, 1952)
African-American poet who served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993-1995. Her best-known works include Sonata Mulattica and The Darker Face of the Earth.
Rita Dove's Best Moments
Megan Willome
Happy Birthday, Rita Dove!
Dove says, All I ever wanted to do was write the best damn poem that I could write a
- Megan Willome
(4 months ago)
Waywords Studio
How rarely we can choose such a thing.
Happy birthday, Rita Dove!
- Waywords Studio
(4 months ago)
susan a taylor
Happy birthday, Rita Dove! Thank you for all of the beauty you bring to the world! Just by being you!
- susan a taylor
(4 months ago)
Fall for the Book
Happy Birthday, Rita Dove! \"When we are touched by something it\'s as if we\'re being brushed by an angel\'s wings.\" Rita Dove
- Fall for the Book
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JohnWBuaas
Happy birthday to Rita Dove.
- JohnWBuaas
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Narrative Magazine
Happy birthday, Rita Dove!
- Narrative Magazine
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TheBlack.Blog
Join us in wishing Happy Birthday to Rita Dove
- TheBlack.Blog
(4 months ago)
Siuslaw Public Library
\"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.\" Happy birthday to American poet Rita Dove, born today
- Siuslaw Public Library
(4 months ago)
Levenger
Happy Birthday Rita Dove. Born on this day in 1952, the American poet and essayist served as the Poet Laureate Cons
- Levenger
(4 months ago)
Jack Lorts
\"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.\" --Rita Dove
Our Poet Laureate 1993-95. Thanks,
- Jack Lorts
(4 months ago)
Trivarna Hariharan
& so happy to share my birthday with the wonderful Rita Dove
- Trivarna Hariharan
(4 months ago)
Carmen Jaye
Happy birthday Rita Dove!!! I was introduced to this amazing poet\'s work when I was in college.
- Carmen Jaye
(4 months ago)
Well-Read Black Girl ™
\"Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit...and to do that, that
- Well-Read Black Girl ™
(4 months ago)
The Yale Review
Happy birthday to Rita Dove! From TYR Autumn 1988, Dove\'s poem after Czeslaw Milosz, \"Dedication\":
- The Yale Review
(4 months ago)
On This Day in Black History
Happy birthday to Rita Dove!
- On This Day in Black History
(4 months ago)
Gerald A Johnson
Happy birthday: Actor Kyle Massey, Singer-TV Show host-Sports Commentator Sal Masekela, Poet-Essayist
- Gerald A Johnson
(4 months ago)
Nichole LeFebvre
Thank you, Facebook, for the annual reminder to say happy birthday to Rita Dove and my ex-boyfriend.
- Nichole LeFebvre
(4 months ago)
WhatsHerName Podcast
Happy birthday to the magnificent Rita Dove, the poet who first took my breath away as a 19yo college student & now
- WhatsHerName Podcast
(4 months ago)
Virginia Quarterly Review
Happy birthday to Rita Dove, who turns sixty-eight today! The renowned poet and professor has been published m
- Virginia Quarterly Review
(4 months ago)
DePaul English
Happy Birthday Rita Dove! A beautiful poet and essayist as well as a recipient of the Poet Laureate award and the P
- DePaul English
(4 months ago)
Kitchen Table Lit
Happy Birthday to the first African American US Poet Laureate Rita Dove! Bl
- Kitchen Table Lit
(4 months ago)
All Hallows Arts
Happy Birthday, Rita Dove!
- All Hallows Arts
(4 months ago)
Literary Cleveland
Happy birthday to Rita Dove!
\"The whole sky is yours to write on, blown open to a blank page. \"
- Literary Cleveland
(4 months ago)
WatermarkPress
\'If they don\'t read, if they don\'t love reading; if they don\'t find themselves compulsively reading, I don\'t think
- WatermarkPress
(4 months ago)
Rethabile Masilo
Happy birthday, Sister
Poéfrika 2.0: Adolescence II, a poem by Rita Dove
- Rethabile Masilo
(4 months ago)
Zoe Keating
Happy belated birthday Rita Dove. And thank you for keeping track of all these moving cultural and per
- Zoe Keating
(4 months ago)
Timothy Colman
Happy birthday Rita Dove who I love
- Timothy Colman
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Emily Sernaker
Happy Birthday Rita Dove
- Emily Sernaker
(4 months ago)
Avant-Garde Books, LLC
Happy Birthday to poet and essayist, Rita Dove!
- Avant-Garde Books, LLC
(4 months ago)
Rachel Dacus
Happy bday, Rita Dove! Listen to this wonderful reading and celebrate the work of a master poet. Thanks,
- Rachel Dacus
(4 months ago)
Joe Madison
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Rita Dove.
- Joe Madison
(4 months ago)
Englewood Review of Books
Happy Birthday to poet Rita Dove!!!
Listen to her reading five of her poems:
- Englewood Review of Books
(4 months ago)
OSU SWLF
Happy birthday to 2016 Stone Award recipient, Rita Dove! Here\'s a look back at her visit:
- OSU SWLF
(4 months ago)
Gauri Burma
I called softly so you could choose
not to answer then called again.
Happy birthday, Rita Dove.
- Gauri Burma
(4 months ago)
IUP Women and Gender
Happy 67th birthday to Rita Dove! She is an American poet and essayist. She was the first African American to be ap
- IUP Women and Gender
(4 months ago)
Admirable Women
Happy Birthday Rita Dove & essayist
She was the youngest person & first black writer to be appointed Poet
- Admirable Women
(4 months ago)
Poets House
She wants to hear
wine pouring.
She wants to taste
change. She wants
pride to roar through
the kitchen till it shin
- Poets House
(4 months ago)
Berkeley County Library System
Happy birthday, Rita Dove! Read some of her poetry in honor of her day:
- Berkeley County Library System
(4 months ago)
CCU Creative Writing
Happy birthday, Leo Tolstoy and Rita Dove!
- CCU Creative Writing
(4 months ago)
Matthew Dowd
Happy bday poet Rita Dove, 2nd African-American to receive Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, b. 1953 There is not going
- Matthew Dowd
(4 months ago)
lucubrations
Poem of the Day 8/28
Heart to Heart
by Rita Dove
Happy Birthday to Rita Dove, born in 1952
- lucubrations
(4 months ago)
September 3rd
Happy Birthday to Ron Guidry, Tony Husband, Colin McAdam (d. 2013), Wayne Osmond, Keiichi Suzuki, Jacques Chagnon,
- September 3rd
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IC English
Happy birthday to Rita Dove (1952): poet, essayist, U. S. Poet Laureate (1993-1995), winner of the Pulitzer Prize (
- IC English
(4 months ago)
claire schwartz
Happy, happy birthday to the queen Rita Dove!!!!
- claire schwartz
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C. Chérie Hardy
Rita Dove (1952) is from above! Happy birthday,
- C. Chérie Hardy
(4 months ago)
PBQ: Lit magazine
\"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.\" Happy Rita Dove
- PBQ: Lit magazine
(4 months ago)
Furious Flower
Happy Birthday to beloved Furious Flower laureate Rita Dove!!
- Furious Flower
(4 months ago)
Writer\'s Relief
Happy Birthday to American and Rita Dove!
- Writer\'s Relief
(4 months ago)
MandelPublicLibrary
Happy birthday to poet Rita Dove! Dove is a widely celebrated poet, who has won the Pulitzer Prize and was named th
- MandelPublicLibrary
(4 months ago)
Vintage/Anchor Books
Happy Birthday to former Poet Laureate, Rita Dove!
\"Shape the lips to an o, say a. That s island.
One word of Swed
- Vintage/Anchor Books
(4 months ago)