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"Persephone, Falling" by Rita Dove
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Negotiating Borders
Ashley wrote 1 week ago: Borders are difficult things to manage; they are not real in the sense that this computer or this de … more →
Arrow by Rita Dove
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Ashley wrote 1 week ago: The eminent scholar “took the bull by the horns,” substituting urban black speech for th … more →
Rita Dove's New Book of Poetry
O. wrote 1 month ago: Rita Dove’s new book of poems (published in May by W.W. Norton) is Sonata Mulattica and, like … more →
What it means to be the US Poet Laureate in 2009
kellyforsythe wrote 1 month ago: Let’s start with a basic definition of what the H a US Poet Laureate is: a poet officially ap … more →
flirtation :: rita dove
supriyanna wrote 2 months ago: After all, there’s no need to say anything at first. An orange, peeled and quartered, flares like a … more →
Flirtation
Chip Cain wrote 3 months ago: By Rita Dove – The first African-American woman to be named Poet Laureate of the United States … more →
"I have been a stranger in a strange land" :: rita dove
supriyanna wrote 3 months ago: Life’s spell is so exquisite, everything conspires to break it. Emily Dickinson It wasn’ … more →
+ Beethoven's "Kreutzer" Sonata Started as "Sonata Mulattica"
Adrienne Edwards wrote 3 months ago: other topics, click a “category” or use search box From an article by Felicia R Lee: Ri … more →
Rita Dove in Chicago April 25
BDCB wrote 3 months ago: Former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize Winner Rita Dove Former Poet Laureate Rita Dove will be spea … more →
Written, Spoken, Heard
Gypsy ButtaFly wrote 3 months ago: Sound Bites Poetry Festival If you are not at the Sound Bites Poetry Festival this weekend … … more →
Rita Dove, Beethoven, and Bridgetower
mhasegawa wrote 3 months ago: This is another story I would have missed except for reading the print edition of the New York Times … more →
Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove
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coatesn wrote 3 months ago: For National Poetry Month: Ohio poet Rita Dove’s new book Sonata Mulattica focuses on re-creat … more →
Repost: Rita Dove-Geometry
chr1 wrote 3 months ago: Geometry I prove a theorem and the house expands: the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling, t … more →
Poetry Anthology Day 30-40
dobbs wrote 4 months ago: Between school, baseball, and my own poetic pursuits, I’ve gotten real lazy about updating my … more →
"Persephone, Falling" by Rita Dove
sleepswithbear wrote 4 months ago: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19856 … more →
The Poet's Notebook
dianaraab wrote 5 months ago: Since the early 1900s, February has been known as Black History month and although today ther … more →
Laurels and laureates
Nicholas DiGiovanni wrote 5 months ago: What’s a laureate? The word comes from the Middle English, by way of Latin, and it all derives … more →
The Bridgetower
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cbc36 wrote 6 months ago: –Rita Dove per il Mulatto Brischdauer gran pazzo e compositore mulattico –Ludwig van Bee … more →
Rita Dove: "The Bridgetower"
D.S. Loney wrote 7 months ago: I had forgotten how funny the footnotes are in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. For example, a … more →
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