Rita Dove

Photo Credit: Sanjay Suchak

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Rita Dove won the Pulitzer Prize for her third book of poetry, Thomas and Beulah, in 1987 and served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995. She received the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the National Medal of Arts from President Obama—the only poet ever to receive both. Her most recent honors include the 2019 Wallace Stevens Award and the 2021 Gold Medal in poetry from the American Academy of Arts & Letters—the third woman and first African American in the 110 years of the Academy’s highest honor. She is the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia. Her eleventh collection of poetry, Playlist for the Apocalypse, was published in August 2021.

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