The Virginia Festival of the Book will pay tribute to poet Nikki Giovanni with readings, live music and tributes from ...

What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. There she is up where the air is thin, where men still outnumber ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Rita Dove is one of the most celebrated poets of our time. As the youngest person to serve as Poet Laureate of the United States and the recipient of numerous accolades ...

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The Texas governor gained national attention by busing migrants to Democratic cities. Now he’s paving the way for President Trump’s mass-deportation campaign. The New Yorker Interview We Might ...

The poem has a dreamy, wandering tone Dove uses digression (deviation from the central theme), flitting from subject to subject in a dreamlike way. The use of dashes in each verse interrupts the ...

“Dove’s richly imagined book,” writes Mark Doty, “has the sweep and vivid characters of a novel but it’s written with a poet’s economy and eye for exact detail.” Rita Dove is Commonwealth Professor of ...

London by William Blake - Eduqas Extract from the Prelude by William Wordsworth - Eduqas She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron - Eduqas Living Space by Imtiaz Dharker - Eduqas To Autumn by John Keats ...

Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove, reprinted by permission of W.W. Norton and Company Inc. Note: this poem is included for reference purposes, please refer to your anthology ...