Poet Rita Dove

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Rita Dove

Living place: Akron

Birthday: 28-8-1952 (72 years old)

Population of US 1952: 157,552,740

Global rank: #35886

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Who is Poet Rita Dove?
African-American poet who served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995. Her most famous works include Sonata Mulattica and The Darker Face of the Earth.
She received the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Thomas and Beulah, a collection published in 1986.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She attended the University of Miami and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Family life info

She and her husband Fred Viebahn became parents to a daughter named Aviva in 1983.

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During her time as United States Poet Laureate, she interviewed journalist Bill Moyers.

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When was Poet Rita Dove born?
Rita Dove birthday 28-8-1952 (at the age of 72).
Where is Poet Rita Dove's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio- United States. is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Virgo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Rita Dove's global rank is 35886 and whose rank is 89 in list of famous Poet. Population of US in 1952 is about 157,552,740 persons.
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Events in 1952 and 28-8

Events in US in the birth year of Rita Dove

  • US explodes first thermonuclear bomb at Enewetak Island (Nov. 1).
  • President-elect Dwight Eisenhower follows through with his campaign promise to visit Korea (Dec. 2).
  • 56 million watch Richard Nixon's "Checker's speech" on TV.

Birthday Rita Dove (28-8) in history

  • Day 28-8 year 1609: British explorer Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay, USA.
  • Day 28-8 year 1850: Richard Wagner's opera, Lohengrin , premiered at Weimar, Germany.
  • Day 28-8 year 1922: The first commercial to be broadcast on radio aired on station WEAF in New York City. The ten minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Company cost $100.
  • Day 28-8 year 1955: Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted and by white men after he supposedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The case was reopened in 2005.
  • Day 28-8 year 1963: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial to civil rights demonstrators.
  • Day 28-8 year 1968: Anti-Vietnam war protesters and police clashed in the streets of Chicago while the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.
  • Day 28-8 year 1981: The Centers for Disease Control announced a medical task force had been formed to look into the incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis in homosexual men. AIDS was later found to be the cause.
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