Dove, Rita
About Rita Dove
Biography (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Reviews
Teicher, Craig Morgan. "Rita Dove's Collected Poems." Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2016
Interviews
Gzemski, Sarah. "An Interview with Rita Dove." The University of Arizona Poetry Center, 26 Oct. 2016
Schwartz, Claire. "An Interview with Rita Dove." Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 92, no. 1, 2016
Blomenberg, David. "Practicing Scales: An Interview with Rita Dove." Sycamore Review, vol. 22, no. 1, 2010
Rowell, Charles Henry. "Interview with Rita Dove." Callaloo, vol. 31, no. 3, 2008
Watts, Lisa. Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing up in Ohio, 2007
St. Lawrence, Robb. "'Taking the Cards You're Dealt and Building a House': An Interview with Rita Dove." Bellingham Review, vol. 29, no. 2, 2006
Dungy, Camille T. "Interview with Rita Dove." Callaloo, vol. 28, no. 4, 2005
Ingersoll, Earl G. Conversations with Rita Dove, 2003
Criticism
Roy, Lekha, and Rano Ringo. "Liminality and Otherness: Exploring Transcultural Space in Rita Dove's The Yellow House on the Corner." Transnational Literature, vol. 11, no. 1, 2018
Quashie, Kevin. "The Black Woman as Artist: The Queer Erotics of Rita Dove's Beulah." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 37, no. 2, 2018
Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin. "Greek Tragedy, Enslaving or Liberating? The Example of Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth." The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas, Bosher et al. (eds.), 2015
Redling, Erik. "African American Poetry: Amiri Baraka's Leadbelly Gives an Autograph and Rita Dove's Claudette Colvin Goes to Work." A History of American Poetry: Contexts - Developments - Readings, Scheiding (ed.), 2015
Brunner, Edward. "Inventing an Ancestor: The Scholar-Poet and the Sonnet." New Formalisms and Literary Theory, Theile and Tredennick (eds.), 2013
Lindner, April. "Eloquent Silences: Lyric Solutions to the Problem of the Biographical Narrative." The Contemporary Narrative Poem: Critical Crosscurrents, Schneider (ed.), 2012
Sastri, Reena. "Rita Dove's Poetic Expeditions." Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 58, no. 1, 2012
Gainey-O'Toole, Charita. "Three Weyward Sisters: African-American Female Poets Conjure with Macbeth." Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, Newstok and Thompson (eds.), 2010
Meitner, Erika. "On Rita Dove." Callaloo, vol. 31, no. 3, 2008
Righelato, Pat. "Rita Dove and the Art of History." Callaloo, vol. 31, no. 3, 2008
Goff, Barbara. Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora, 2007
Walters, Tracey L. American Literature and the Classicist Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison, 2007
Boone, N.S. "Resignation to History: The Black Arts Movement and Rita Dove's Political Consciousness." Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora, vol. 5, no. 1, 2004
Steffen, Therese. "On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Perspectives of the Local and the Global in Rita Dove's Collection of Poetry." A World of Local Voices: Poetry in English Today, Martens et al. (eds.), 2003
Hacht, Anne Marie. Poetry for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, And Criticism on Commonly Studied Poetry, Volume 15, 2002
Carlisle, Theodora. "Reading the Scars: Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth." African American Review, vol. 34, no. 1, 2000
Booth, Alison. "Abduction and Other Severe Pleasures: Rita Dove's Mother Love." Callaloo, vol. 19, no. 1, 1996
Vendler, Helen. "Rita Dove: Identity Markers." Callaloo, vol. 17, no. 2, 1994
Jones, Kirkland. "The European Sojourns of Rita Dove: The Influence on Her Stateside Works." MAWA Review, vol. 7, no. 1, 1992
Works
Novels
Through the Ivory Gate (1992)
Short Story Collections
Fifth Sunday (1985)
Plays/Scripts
The Darker Face of the Earth (1994)
Poetry Collections
Collected Poems: 1974-2004 (2016)
Sonata Mulattica (2009)
American Smooth (2004)
On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999)
Mother Love (1995)
Selected Poems (1993)
Grace Notes (1989)
Thomas and Beulah (1986)
Museum (1983)
The Yellow House on the Corner (1980)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
The Poet's World (1995)
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Rita Dove On Her Creative Process. YouTube, 23 Apr. 2012
Rita Dove Talks about Selected Poems and Her Novel Through the Ivory Gate. YouTube, 30 May 2016