This Old Poem #46:
The Poets Laureate Special Edition #6:
Rita Doves Lost Brilliance
Thomas and Beulah
What made it all the more galling was that she seemed to be 1 of the few Academics that was not incestuously bound to the filthy tit of the NEAs grant-giving gravy train. Her c.v.: Ms. Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. A 1970 Presidential Scholar, she received her B.A. summa cum laude from Miami University of Ohio and her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She also held a Fulbright scholarship at the Universität Tübingen in Germany. She has published the poetry collections The Yellow House on the Corner Museum Thomas and Beulah Grace Notes Selected Poems Mother Love On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999), a book of short stories, Fifth Sunday (1985), the novel Through the Ivory Gate (1992), essays under the title The Poet's World (1995), and the play The Darker Face of the Earth , which had its world premiere in 1996 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and was subsequently produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Royal National Theatre in London, and other theatres. Seven for Luck , a song cycle for soprano and orchestra with music by John Williams, was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in 1998. For "America's Millennium", the White House's 1999/2000 New Year's celebration, Ms. Dove contributed in a live reading at the Lincoln Memorial, accompanied by John Williams's music a poem to Steven Spielberg's documentary | |
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