![]() “Poetry unfolds at the heart of language,” she said. Her work is noted for its ability to capture contemporary social issues. She graduated with an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and won the Pulitzer Prize for Thomas and Beulah. Dove said she was painfully shy which helped her become a diligent observer which has served her well, “I watched, listened, and learned.” A voracious reader, she fell in love with words at an early age. Rita Dove is an important American poet born in 1952 in Akron, Ohio. It tells the story of a mixed-race musician named George Bridgetown who was a colleague of Ludwig von Beethoven.ĭove also reflected on her life growing up in Ohio. Students, faculty, staff, and community residents got to mingle with one of the most important literary voices of our time as she took time to meet people, answer questions, and discuss her life’s work.ĭove was the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her poem “Thomas and Beulah” in 1987 and in 1993 she became the first African American woman to hold the title of United States Poet Laureate.ĭove started her lecture by saying “Our vocation as poets is to bathe ourselves in the world.” She read and discussed her latest original work Sonata Mulattica which consists of 84 poems. ![]() Addicott and Yatish J.Joshi Performance Hall. Dove spent two days at IU South Bend with public appearances at the Civil Rights Heritage Center and the Louise E. Her song cycle Seven for Luck, with music by John Williams, was premiered by Cynthia Haymon with the Boston Symphony in 1998, and her song sequence A Standing Witness, 14 poems with music by Richard Danielpour, was sung by Susan Graham with the Copland House musicians at the Kennedy Center, the Tanglewood Music Festival, and other venues in 2021. The campus and community got the opportunity to hear Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate Rita Dove during her visit as the 2018 Bender Scholar-in-Residence.
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