Behind Visions & Verse
The Extraordinary Rita Dove
Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. A 1970 Presidential Scholar, she attended Miami University of Ohio, Universität Tübingen in Germany, and the University of Iowa, where she earned her creative writing MFA in 1977. In 1987 she received the Pulitzer Prize for her third collection of poetry, Thomas and Beulah, and from 1993 to 1995 she served as U.S. Poet Laureate at the Library of Congress.
The World At Your Fingertips
My first experience with newspapers took place while sitting comfortably on my grandfather’s lap in the small town of Wellington, Ohio. There, he would read to me, starting with the bold headlines, and then moving on to the various articles that discussed the day’s significant events. After we finished with the news, which often sparked our conversations, it was time to turn our attention to the comic section.
The Rare Magic that was Nikki
Nikki Giovanni died yesterday.