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56-624: The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is administered by the Academy of American Poets selected by the New Hope Foundation in 1994. Established in 1975, this $ 25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year. The Prize was created in 1975 by the New Hope Foundation of Pennsylvania, which was a philanthropic foundation created by Lenore Marshall and her husband, James Marshall, to "support

112-546: A Presidential Scholar . Later, Dove graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Miami University in 1973. From 1974 to 1975 she held a Fulbright Scholarship from University of Tübingen , Germany. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1977. Dove taught creative writing at Arizona State University from 1981 to 1989. She received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry . In May 1993 she

168-668: A Mayor's Award of Honor for Arts and Culture. She also had received the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Social Sciences, the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Since its earliest days, the Academy of American Poets has been guided by an honorary Board of Chancellors composed of established and award-winning poets who serve as advisors to

224-510: A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets . Since 1991, she has been on the jury of the annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards —from 1991 to 1996 together with Ashley Montagu and Henry Louis Gates ; from 1997 to 2023 with Gates, Joyce Carol Oates , Simon Schama , Stephen Jay Gould (until his death in 2002) and Steven Pinker (who replaced Gould in 2002), and since 2023 with Pinker, Peter Ho Davies , Tiya Miles and Natasha Tretheway . Since 2023 she serves as vice president for literature at

280-800: A collection of essays ( The Poet's World , 1995), and a novel, Through the Ivory Gate (1992). Her Collected Poems 1974–2004 was released by W. W. Norton in 2016; it carries an excerpt from President Barack Obama 's 2011 National Medal of Arts commendation on its back cover. In 1994, she published the play The Darker Face of the Earth (revised stage version 1996), which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon , in 1996 (first European production: Royal National Theatre , London, 1999). She collaborated with composer John Williams on

336-417: A permanent endowment, and the cash value of the prize is currently $ 25,000. The Academy of American Poets currently announces three judges for each year's competition in advance. There has been some criticism of the Academy's procedures for mitigating the judges' conflicts of interest, since the judges are often acquainted with some of the poets whose volumes are nominated. Named after poet Walt Whitman ,

392-728: A straight $ 10,000 book price and a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome and $ 20,000 for use in advancing a "significant work-in-progress", such as through travel or study. The award is administered for the New York Community Trust and funded by a bequest from Sonia Raiziss Giop . Established in 2013, the Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award recognizes a student poet twenty-three years old or younger, with an annual cash prize of $ 1,000. Established in 2017,

448-554: A while. Several of the Award's recipients have subsequently won the highest honors given to mature poets. Donald Hall was named Poet Laureate of the United States in 2004. Donald Justice , Lisel Mueller , Philip Schultz , and Tracy K. Smith have each won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry . The Academy first began awarding annual $ 100 prizes to student poets at ten American universities and colleges in 1955. The program has since expanded to include more than 200 schools. According to

504-579: The American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 2000 and 2001 Dove wrote a weekly column, "Poet's Choice", for The Washington Post . In the spring of 2018, Dove was named poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine . After writing nearly fifty columns in which she championed new American poetry, she resigned from the position in August 2019. Dove's work cannot be confined to a specific era or school in contemporary literature; her wide-ranging topics and

560-674: The Copernicus Award (from 1974 to 1977), the Edgar Award (from 1974 to 1977), and the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award (from 1983 to 1994). Rita Dove Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist . From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress . She is the first African American to have been appointed since

616-788: The Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1991, and in 2018 she was named one of the Library of Virginia 's Virginia Women in History . Dove married Fred Viebahn, a German-born writer, in 1979; they first met in the summer of 1976 when she was a graduate student in the Iowa Writers Workshop and he spent a semester as a Fulbright fellow in the University of Iowa's International Writing Program . They lived in Oberlin, Ohio , from 1977 to 1979 while Viebahn taught in

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672-646: The Pratt Institute , Skidmore College and Duke University . Dove received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1994, the National Humanities Medal / Charles Frankel Prize from President Bill Clinton in 1996, the 3rd Annual Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities in 1997, and more recently, the 2006 Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service in Literature,

728-694: The Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement from Oregon State University . Collected Poems 1974–2004 , released in 2016, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the winner of the NAACP Image Award in poetry and winner of the 2017 Library of Virginia Poetry Award. Also in 2017, she received the Callaloo Lifetime Achievement Award, followed in 2018 by The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement and in 2019 by

784-649: The University of Virginia in Charlottesville , where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020; as of 2020, she holds the chair of Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing. Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio , to Ray Dove, one of the first African-American chemists to work in the U.S. tire industry (as a research chemist at Goodyear ), and Elvira Hord, who achieved honors in high school and would share her passion for reading with her daughter. In 1970, Dove graduated from Buchtel High School as

840-851: The Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, the North Star Award (the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for lifetime achievement) , the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal from Harvard University and the Langston Hughes Medal from City College of New York. Since 2015, Rita Dove's poem, Cozy Apologia, has been a part of the WJEC Edquas GCSE English Literature specification in England and Wales, featuring in its poetry anthology. In 2021, Dove received

896-545: The 2007 Chubb Fellowship at Yale University, the 2008 Library of Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2009 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, the 2009 Premio Capri and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. In 2014, she was honored with the Carole Weinstein Prize in poetry and in 2015, as the first American, with the Poetry and People Prize in Guangdong, China . In 2016, she received

952-403: The Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships In 2019, the Academy of American Poets launched the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, which provides poets laureate from states, municipalities, and tribal nations around the United States with $ 50,000 to support the creation of new work, and enable them to undertake civic projects that enrich their communities. Past awards include

1008-455: The Academy of American Poets purchases one thousand copies of the winning book for distribution to its membership; the purchase and distribution essentially guarantee that the book becomes "a bestseller in the tiny poetry market." Edward Field has described the importance of receiving the Award to his career as follows: ... perhaps it is just as well that I didn't succeed in getting a publisher earlier, since, with new poems being added all

1064-568: The Academy's website Poets.org describes it as "the first of its kind in the United States." Formerly known as the Lamont Poetry Selection, the Laughlin Award is given in recognition of a poet's second published book, and is considered to be the only major award honoring the publication of a poet's second book. The award was first established in 1954 by a bequest from the wife of Thomas W. Lamont , who specified that it be used "for

1120-450: The Academy, most of these prizes are endowed in perpetuity, though some are funded through other arrangements with the school or through private donors. For a school to become part of the program, a $ 2,500 endowment contribution is required. Individual schools set the winning criteria for their awards, within the guidelines set by the Academy: winners must be registered students at the school and

1176-530: The African diaspora through the eyes of its artists. Dove was on the board of the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) (now "Association of Writers and Writing Programs") from 1985 to 1988, leading the organization as its president from 1986 to 1987. From 1994 to 2000, she was a senator (member of the governing board) of the national academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa . From 2006 to 2012 she served as

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1232-683: The African-American poetic reception of Whitman into perspective at a poetry festival in Bogotá, Colombia, during a round-table session with Robert Pinsky . Besides her Pulitzer Prize, Dove has received numerous literary and academic honors, among them 29 honorary doctorates – most recently, in 2018, from Harvard University , Smith College and The University of Michigan , and in 2022 from her graduate alma mater, The University of Iowa —as well as, in 2014, from Yale University and, in 2013, from Emerson College and Emory University ). In 2016, she

1288-643: The Ambroggio Prize is the only annual award of its kind in the United States that honors American poets whose first language is Spanish. It is a $ 1,000 publication prize given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation. Luis Alberto Ambroggio sponsored the prize to "celebrate poets in the United States writing in Spanish as an important part of our rich American poetic tradition." Main Article: List of Winners of

1344-701: The Best American Poetry website, and with Bill Moyers on his public television show Moyers & Company . The Boston Review continued the discussion from different angles with an aggressive attack by scholar Marjorie Perloff and a spirited counter-attack by poet and scholar Evie Shockley , who took on both Vendler and Perloff. Dove published a number of books in foreign translations, among them two into German, two into Chinese, three into Spanish, and one each into Norwegian, Macedonian, Italian, French, Dutch and Hebrew, plus numerous translations in foreign magazines. One of her earliest foreign translations

1400-583: The Board of the Academy of American Poets. The Academy of American Poets administers several programs: National Poetry Month; the website Poets.org, which includes a curated collection of poems and essays about poetry, over 800 recordings and videos of poets dating back to the 1960s, and free materials for K-12 teachers, including lesson plans; the syndicated series, Poem-a-Day; and American Poets magazine. The organization also awards nine major prizes for poets, as well as 200 college awards sponsored at schools across

1456-429: The Library of Congress in 1999/2000, along with Louise Glück and W. S. Merwin . In 2004, then-governor Mark Warner of Virginia appointed her to a two-year position as Poet Laureate of Virginia . In her public posts, Dove concentrated on spreading the word about poetry and increasing public awareness of the benefits of literature. As United States Poet Laureate , for example, she brought together writers to explore

1512-555: The Library of Congress. On Nov. 15, 2023, during the 74th National Book Awards ceremony in New York, Dove received the National Book Foundation 's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters as only the fourth poet in this lifetime achievement category, after Gwendolyn Brooks in 1994, Adrienne Rich in 2006 and John Ashbery in 2011. This was followed by an Academy of American Poets Leadership Award and

1568-469: The Prize became the responsibility of the Academy; the Prize has a permanent endowment. The Prize is still sponsored by The Nation , which usually publishes an article about the poetry of each year's finalists and winner. The cash value of the prize is currently $ 25,000. Academy of American Poets In 1984, Robert Penn Warren noted that "To have great poets there must be great audiences, Whitman said, to

1624-593: The Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature from Mercer University in 2024. Dove is a member of the American Philosophical Society , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Letters , where she serves as vice president for literature during the 2023 to 2026 board term, the Fellowship of Southern Writers and PEN American Center . She was inducted into

1680-657: The University of Virginia, was unveiled and is prominently displayed in the front room of the university's historic Pavilion VII (Colonnade Club) on the West Lawn. Also in 2022, she won the Library of Virginia Poetry Award for Playlist for the Apocalypse [2] and received two more lifetime achievement recognitions: a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize from

1736-466: The arts and the cause of world peace"; Lenore Marshall, a poet, novelist, editor, and peace activist, had died in 1971. The Prize was initially administered by the Saturday Review magazine. Following the folding of Saturday Review , the Prize was administered by The Nation magazine. In 1995, administration of the Prize became the responsibility of the Academy of American Poets; the Prize has

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1792-521: The arts and the cause of world peace"; Lenore Marshall, a poet, novelist, editor, and peace activist, had died in 1971. Receipt of the prize has been among the distinctions noted by the Library of Congress when the Poet Laureate of the United States is named. The Prize was initially administered by the Saturday Review magazine. Following the folding of Saturday Review , the Prize was administered by The Nation magazine. In 1995, administration of

1848-575: The award is based on a competition of book-length poetry manuscripts by American poets who have not yet published a book. It has been described as "a transformative honor that includes publication and distribution of the book though the Academy, $ 5,000 in cash and a residency at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation." The Library of Congress includes the Award among distinctions noted for poets, as does The New York Times , which also occasionally publishes articles about new awards. The award

1904-527: The award was established in 1994 by Dorothea Tanning to "recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry". Nominations are not accepted. The winner, who must be an American citizen, is chosen by the Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors and receives $ 100,000. Established in 1995, the award seeks to recognize American translators for "outstanding translations into English of modern Italian poetry" that have been published through non-self-publication means. The prize alternates annually between

1960-534: The change, suggesting that publishing a second volume was becoming more difficult than publishing the first. In 1995, it was endowed by a gift from the Drue Heinz Trust, and it was renamed to honor James Laughlin , who founded the publishing house New Directions in 1936. At present, winners receive a cash prize of $ 5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, and

2016-550: The country. In 1998, Fred Viebahn, husband of African-American poet Rita Dove , drew media attention to the lack of diversity on the Academy's Board of Chancellors; up until then, no poet of color had ever been elected to be a Chancellor, and only very few women. Subsequently, two female Chancellors, Maxine Kumin and Carolyn Kizer , resigned in protest. The Academy responded by instituting major changes and designating several new chancellors, including African-American poets Lucille Clifton and Yusef Komunyakaa . Elizabeth Kray

2072-438: The discovery and encouragement of new poetic genius." In 1959, Harvey Shapiro referred to the award as "roughly, a Pulitzer for bardlings." Initially, the Lamont Poetry Selection was awarded to a poet's first published book; copies of the book were purchased from its publisher for distribution to the Academy's members. In 1975, the organization changed to selecting a poet's second volume; in an editorial, Peter Davison welcomed

2128-714: The gold medal in poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters , the academy's highest honor, as the 16th poet (and only the 3rd female and 1st African-American) in the medals' 110-year history. The other fifteen poets who have received the medal since 1911 were James Whitcomb Riley , Edwin Arlington Robinson , Robert Frost , Marianne Moore , Conrad Aiken , William Carlos Williams , W. H. Auden , John Crowe Ransom , Archibald MacLeish , Robert Penn Warren , Richard Wilbur , John Ashbery , W. S. Merwin , Mark Strand and Louise Glück . In 2022, an official portrait of Dove by photographer Sanjay Suchak, commissioned by

2184-530: The more or less unheeding ears of American educators. Ambitiously, hopefully, the Academy has undertaken to remedy this plight." In 1998, Dinitia Smith described the Academy of American Poets as "a venerable body at the symbolic center of the American poetry establishment." In 2013, Carolyn Forché described the Academy of American Poets as "the most important organization in our country helping to keep poetry alive and in our culture." The Academy of American Poets

2240-674: The organization and judge its largest prizes for poets. Past Chancellors include W. H. Auden , Elizabeth Bishop , Lucille Clifton , Robert Creeley , Marianne Moore , Mark Strand , and May Swenson . Women as well as men were founding poets of the Academy; for example, Florence Hamilton. As of 2018, the fifteen Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets are: Elizabeth Alexander , Ellen Bass , Marilyn Chin , Kwame Dawes , Forrest Gander , Linda Gregerson , Terrance Hayes , Brenda Hillman , Marie Howe , Khaled Mattawa , Marilyn Nelson , Alicia Ostriker , Claudia Rankine , Alberto Ríos , and David St. John . As of 2020, Michael Jacobs chair

2296-422: The organization named its first Latino executive director and president, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado . Awards are listed in chronological order of their creation. One Academy Fellowship is awarded annually for "distinguished poetic achievement": Fellows are awarded a stipend which is presently $ 25,000. The Fellowship program was created in 1946, and was the first of the organization's current portfolio of awards;

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2352-447: The position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86). Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry , in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Since 1989, she has been teaching at

2408-484: The precise poetic language with which she captures complex emotions defy easy categorization. Her most famous work to date is Thomas and Beulah , published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press in 1986, a collection of poems loosely based on the lives of her maternal grandparents, for which she received the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. Dove has published eleven volumes of poetry, a book of short stories ( Fifth Sunday , 1985),

2464-425: The school cannot restrict the themes or styles of the entries. The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize is awarded annually for the best volume of poetry written by a living U.S. citizen and published in the previous year in the United States. The Prize was created in 1975 by the New Hope Foundation of Pennsylvania, which was a philanthropic foundation created by Lenore Marshall and her husband, James Marshall, to "support

2520-845: The song cycle Seven for Luck (first performance: Boston Symphony , Tanglewood , 1998, conducted by the composer). For "America's Millennium", the White House 's 1999/2000 New Year's celebration, Dove contributed — in a live reading at the Lincoln Memorial , accompanied by John Williams' music — a poem to Steven Spielberg's documentary The Unfinished Journey . She also provided the texts for Pulitzer Prize winner Tania Leon 's musical works "Singin' Sepia" (1996), "Reflections" (2006) and "The Crossing Choir" (forthcoming), among other collaborations with multiple composers, most recently on "A Standing Witness" with Richard Danielpour . Dove's most ambitious collection of poetry to date, Sonata Mulattica ,

2576-479: The time, the manuscript kept getting stronger. But years of rejection took their toll, and when I won the Lamont Award in 1962, I kept repeating "I will not be consoled." But I was. My life changed considerably. For one thing, I could make a living - I gave poetry readings around the country, wrote narrations for a couple of documentary films, translated a book of Eskimo poems, and, yes, even taught poetry workshops for

2632-534: The very last minute because their publisher forbade their inclusion due to a disagreement with Penguin over permission fees. Critic Helen Vendler condemned Dove's choices, asking "why are we being asked to sample so many poets of little or no lasting value?" Dove defended her editorial work vigorously in her response to Vendler in The New York Review of Books , as well as in wide-ranging interviews with The Writer's Chronicle , with poet Jericho Brown on

2688-477: The winning manuscript. The Academy purchases and distributes copies to its members, along with copies of the winning volume for the James Laughlin Award. This $ 1,000 award recognizes a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the previous calendar year. Established in 1976, it is given annually. A noted translator chooses the winning book. Named for Wallace Stevens ,

2744-550: Was created in 1934 in New York City by 23-year-old Marie Bullock with a mission to "support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry." In 1936, the Academy of American Poets was officially incorporated as a nonprofit organization . Marie Bullock was the president of the Academy of American Poets for the next half a century, running the organization out of her apartment for thirty of those years. In 1982, Marie Bullock received

2800-472: Was established in 1975. In a New York Times opinion piece from 1985, the novelist John Barth noted that 1475 manuscripts had been entered into one of the Whitman Award competitions, which exceeded the number of subscribers to some poetry journals. From 1992 to 2014, Louisiana State University Press published each volume as part of its "Walt Whitman Award Series" Beginning 2015, Graywolf Press published

2856-472: Was featured by Bill Moyers in a one-hour interview on his PBS prime-time program Bill Moyers Journal . Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville , where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020 and is now the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing. Dove also served as a Special Bicentennial Consultant in Poetry to

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2912-462: Was hired in 1963 as the first executive director of the Academy of American Poets, and she served the organization until 1981. William Wadsworth served as executive director from 1989 to 2001. In January 2020 the Academy received a grant of $ 4.5 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , in addition to the $ 2.2 million provided in 2019. The money will be used for the poet laureate program. In 2023,

2968-531: Was into French by Paol Keineg and published in the Breton review "Bretagnes" in 1976. The annual "Rita Dove Poetry Award" was established by Salem College Center for Women Writers in 2004. The documentary film Rita Dove: An American Poet by Eduardo Montes-Bradley premiered at the Paramount Theater on January 31, 2014. In 2019, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth, Dove put

3024-504: Was named United States Poet Laureate by the Librarian of Congress , an office she held until 1995. At the age of 40, Dove was the youngest person in the position and the first African American since the title was changed to Poet Laureate ( Robert Hayden had served as the first non-white Consultant in Poetry from 1976 to 1978, and Gwendolyn Brooks had been the last Consultant in Poetry in 1985–86). Early in her tenure as poet laureate, Dove

3080-1237: Was published in 2009; it received the 2010 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award . Over its more than 200 pages, it "has the sweep and vivid characters of a novel", as Mark Doty wrote in O, The Oprah Magazine . Dove's 11th collection of poetry, Playlist for the Apocalypse , was published by W. W. Norton in August 2021. The New York Times critic Dwight Garner called it "among her best", "poems that are by turns delicate, witty and audacious." Dove edited The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry , published in 2011. The collection provoked heated controversy as some critics complained that she valued an inclusive, populist agenda over quality. Poet John Olson commented that "her exclusions are breathtaking". Well-known poets left out include Sylvia Plath , Allen Ginsberg , Sterling Allen Brown , Louis Zukofsky , George Oppen , Charles Reznikoff and Lorine Niedecker . As Dove explained in her foreword and in media interviews, she had originally selected works by Plath, Ginsberg and Brown but these as well as some other poets were omitted against her editorial wishes; their contributions had to be removed from print-ready copy at

3136-794: Was the commencement speaker at The University of Virginia , which traditionally does not bestow honorary degrees. Among the other institutions of higher learning that granted her honorary doctorates are her undergraduate alma mater Miami University , Knox College , Tuskegee University , University of Miami (Florida), Washington University in St. Louis , Case Western Reserve University , The University of Akron , Arizona State University , Boston College , Dartmouth College , Spelman College , The University of Pennsylvania , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , University of Notre Dame , Northeastern University , Columbia University , SUNY Brockport , Washington & Lee University , Howard University ,

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