Rita Dove
served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant
in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995 and was reappointed
Special Consultant in Poetry for 1999/2000. She has received numerous
literary and academic honors, among them the 1987 Pulitzer Prize
in Poetry, the 1996 Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, the 1996
National Medal in the Humanities, and the 2001 Duke Ellington Lifetime
Achievement Award in the Literary Arts from the Ellington Fund
in Washington, D.C. She lives in Charlottesville with her husband Fred
Viebahn and her daughter Aviva.
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