Brunner, Edward
Modern American Poetry: Rita Dove
http://www.english.illinois.edu/
maps/poets/a_f/
dove/dove.htm
A treasure trove of interviews (primary source material) with poet, Rita Dove, along with a
link to exhibit at the Academy of American Poets.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Dove, Rita.
Major Steps: A Memoir by Rita Dove
http://people.virginia.edu/
~rfd4b/SUMMER%20
OF%2068.htm
Rita Dove tells the poignant of her struggle to become a majorette in the summer of 1968.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Forsicht
Forsicht's Channel
http://www.youtube.com/
profile?user=forsicht
#g/u
Forsicht, has assembled a collection of over fifty Rita Dove videos, including lectures, poetry readings,
and more.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Library of Congress
Rita Dove
http://www.loc.gov
/rr/program/
bib/dove/
Dove served two terms as poet laureate, finishing her duties
in spring 1999. This guide compiles links to resources on
Rita Dove throughout the Library of Congress Web site, as
well as links to external Web sites that include features
on her life or selections of her work.
Source:
http://www.loc.gov
/rr/program/
bib/dove/
University of Virginia
Rita Dove Home Page
http://people.virginia.edu/
~rfd4b/
Gives a brief biography of Ms. Dove along with a detailed listing of her awards and achievements and
a thorough listing of links to sites about her.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute
King Papers Project
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/
index.php/
kingpapers/index
The King Papers Project's principal mission is to publish a
definitive fourteen-volume edition of King's most significant
correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings,
and unpublished manuscripts. The published volumes of
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., have already
influenced scholarship and become essential reference works. Building upon
this research foundation, the Project also
engages in other related educational activities.
Using multimedia and computer technology to reach diverse audiences, it has
greatly increased the documentary information about King's ideas
and achievements that is available to popular as well as scholarly audiences.
Source:
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/
index.php/kingpapers/
article/
what_is_the_king_papers_project/
U.S. National Park Service
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/malu
/index.htm
This park in the heart of Atlanta features Martin Luther King's birth place, historic Ebenezer Baptist Church,
and a large museum and educational exhibit.
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
DeKalb Symphony Orchestra
DeKalb Symphony Orchestra
Defunct link to DeKalb Symphony Orchestra
Established in 1964, the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra has served
the community by offering audiences an enjoyable symphonic experience
in a relaxed, unpretentious, affordable setting.
The DeKalb Symphony Orchestra presents concerts of traditional and contemporary
symphonic repertoire, seeking both the highest possible
level of artistic quality and the advancement of musical awareness
and participation among its musicians and diverse audiences.
Source: Defunct link to DeKalb Symphony Orchestra
Harmony
Harmony: Atlanta's Interntional Youth Chorus
http://www.harmonychorus.org/
HARMONY: Atlanta's International Youth Chorus offers 100 youths
from diverse racial, cultural, religious and socio-economic backgrounds
the opportunity to develop self-discipline, teamwork, tolerance and
mutual respect as they strive for choral excellence. Believing
that music is a barrier breaker and a powerful medium of
communication and self-expression, HARMONY sings messages of
love, peace, justice, hope, reconciliation, equality and unity in 35 languages.
Source:
http://www.harmonychorus.org/
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On January 15th, the 1993 Poet Laureate, Rita Dove, will be the keynote spaker at Georgia Perimeter College's (now Perimeter College at Georgia State University) Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration. This display honors the Poet Laureate with books, images, copies of her poetry, web page links, and more. To find out more about the Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration, visit the Celebration's official web site..
Dove, Rita.
Grace Notes: Poems.
New York: Norton, 1991.
Call Number: PS3554.O884 G7 1991
Synopsis: With this her fourth book of poems, Rita Dove expands her role as a
leading voice in contemporary American letters. The title of the collection
serves as an umbrella for the intimate concerns expressed in the
forty-eight poems; in music, grace notes are those added to the basic melody,
the embellishments that—if played or sung at the right moment with just
the right touch—can break your heart.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Dove, Rita.
Mother Love: Poems.
New York: Norton, 1995.
Call Number: PS3554.O884 M68 1995
Synopsis: Calling upon the ancient Greek myth of Demeter
and Persephone, Mother Love examines the love between mother
and daughter, two tumblers locked in an eternal somersault: each
mother a daughter, each daughter a potential mother.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Dove, Rita.
Museum: Poems.
Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1992.
Call Number: PS3554.O884 M8 1992
Synopsis: This book presents a mature Dove, expert in the use of recurrent images of light and darkness.
Source: Literature Resource Center. GALILEO.
Dove, Rita.
On the Bus with Rose Parks: Poems.
New York: Norton, 1999.
Call Number: PS3554.O884 O52 1999
Synopsis: In these poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply
of human endeavour, shot through with the jazz of her lyrical elegence (sic).
Source:
http://www.amazon.co.uk
Dove, Rita.
Selected Poems.
New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
Call Number: PS3554.O884 A6 1993
Synopsis: Dove's poems, rich with elegant phrasing and
Southern spice, blast tradition by pulling readers into other lives
and then dazzle them with an often startling mastery of language.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Dove, Rita.
Sonata Mulattica: A Life in Five Movements and a Short Play.
New York: Norton, 2009.
Call Number: PS3554.O884 S66 2009
Synopsis: Poetry celebrates America’s cultural heritage with pieces
about such topics as World War I’s African-American
jazz band, a Harlem girl’s examination
of adult flirting behaviors, and the first African-American Oscar winner.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Dove, Rita.
Through the Ivory Gate: A Novel.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.
Call Number: PS3554.O884 T48 1992
Synopsis: A debut novel by the 1987 winner
of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. When a woman returns to
her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to
teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means dealing with
memories of racism, rejected love--and truths about her family.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Dove, Rita.
Thomas and Beulah: Poems.
Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1986.
Synopsis: The poems in this unusual book tell a story, forming a
narrative almost like a realistic novel. Read in sequence as intended,
they tell of the lives of a married black couple (not unlike Dove's own
grandparents) from the early part of the century until their
deaths in the 1960s, a period that spans the great migration of
blacks from rural south to urban north.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Dove, Rita.
The Yellow House on the Corner: Poems.
Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1989.
Synopsis: The poems of Dove's The Yellow House on the
Corner, published by Carnegie Mellon in 1980, establish her Akron,
Ohio, landscape in the heart of the industrial Midwest
as she portrays the old neighborhood scenes and her own
emerging sense of self.
Source: Literature Resource Center. GALILEO
Dove, Rita and Earl G. Ingersoll.
Conversations with Rita Dove.
Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi, 2003.
Synopsis: In 1993, Rita Dove (b. 1952) became the nation's
youngest and first female African American Poet Laureate. This collection of
interviews offers a fascinating portrait of her.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
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