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Rita Dove, "Second-Hand Man", part of the Selected Shorts story anthology Getting There from Here (2004) [110] Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things (2016)
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 ...
Thomas and Beulah is a book of poems by American poet Rita Dove that tells the semi-fictionalized chronological story of her maternal grandparents during the Great Migration, [1] the focus being on her grandfather (Thomas, his name in the book as well as in real life) in the first half and her grandmother (named Beulah in the book, although her real name was Georgianna) in the second.
Rita Dove, of Akron, Ohio, received a master’s degree from the prominent creative writing program at the University of Iowa.
Rita Dove: Thomas and Beulah: Winner Hayden Carruth: The Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth: Finalist Charles Simic: Unending Blues: Finalist 1988: William Meredith: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems: Winner Lucille Clifton: Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 and Next: New Poems: Finalist C.K. Williams: Flesh and Blood: Finalist ...
Poet Rita Dove has a sharp, simple goal in response to receiving a National Book Award for lifetime achievement: “I want it to be a milestone, not a tombstone.” ... Dove, 71, has been a ...
Sonata Mulattica : A Life in Five Movements and a Short Play is a collection of poems by U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove, published in 2009, about the life of George Bridgetower. [1] Bridgetower was a biracial (Afro-Caribbean, Polish, German) musician who was friends with Beethoven.
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...