![]() ![]() In 2011, President Barack Obama also presented her with a National Medal of Arts, making her the only poet to have received both distinctions. Dove served as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2004 to 2006, and has received countless awards and honors, such as a Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, a Library of Virginia’s Lifetime Achievement Award, a Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, and a National Humanities Medal presented to her by President Bill Clinton. Other books now include Mother Love (1995), On the Bus With Rosa Parks (1999), American Smooth (2004), Sonata Mulattica (2009), and Collected Poems: 1974-2004 (2016), a National Book Award finalist, as well as Fifth Sunday (1985), a collection of short stories, The Darker Face of the Earth (1994), a play, and The Poet’s World (1995), a book of essays. ![]() At the time of the 1994 conference, Rita Dove had just been named Poet Laureate of the United States, and had recently published a novel, Through the Ivory Gate (1992), which accompanied her acclaimed books of poetry: The Yellow House on the Corner (1980) Museum (1983) Grace Notes (1989) and Thomas and Beulah (1986), which earned her a Pulitzer Prize. ![]()
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