Rita Dove

Rita Dove, former US Poet Laureate and 1987 Pulitzer Prize recipient in poetry, is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Among her nine poetry books are American Smooth (Norton, 2004) and Sonata Mulattica, forthcoming in April 2009.

Rita Dove’s website is at people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b.

Published in VQR

• Black Billy Waters, at His Pitch, Spring 2009
• Paris, Panting, Spring 2009
• Floating Requiem, Spring 2009
• What Doesn’t Happen, Spring 2009
• Nomadia, Spring 2009
• Pretty Boy, Spring 2009
• Brightening, Winter 2005
• The House Slave, Spring 1980