Rita Dove is the Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia. From 1993 to 1995 she served as Poet Laureate of the United States, the youngest person and first African-American ever to hold that title. Her volumes of poetry include Mother Love, Selected Poems, Grace Notes, Museum, The Yellow House on the Corner, and the poetic narrative Thomas and Beulah, which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. upenn.edu
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Rita Dove. Reprinted from: Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (Little, Brown, and Company, 1994). www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dove/onlinepoems.htm
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