![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She then joined the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1977. ![]() She graduated summa cum laude (as well as Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi) with a degree in English in 1973, followed by two semesters as a Fulbright scholar at Universität Tübingen in Germany. In 1970 she was invited to the White House as a Presidential Scholar, one of the hundred most outstanding high school graduates in the United States that year, before attending Miami University in Oxford, Ohio as a National Achievement Scholar. Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952 as the daughter of the first Black research chemist who, in the early 1950s, broke the race barrier in the tire industry. In 1999 she was reappointed Special Consultant in Poetry for 1999/2000, the Library of Congress's bicentennial year, and in 2004 Virginia governor Mark Warner appointed her as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a two year position. In 1993 Rita Dove was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, making her the youngest person - and the first African-American - to receive this highest official honor in American poetry. ![]()
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