![]() ![]() She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University in 2014. Dove also served as Virginia’s poet laureate from 2004 to 2006. She was the second Black writer to win the Pulitzer Prize in poetry (in 1987 Gwendolyn Brooks won it in 1950). ![]() poets laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, the first Latin American to hold the honor (2015-17), and Joy Harjo, the current poet laureate and first Native American in this position.ĭove is the only poet to receive both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts. poet laureate (from 1993 to ’95) and also the youngest at the time, Dove will be honored along with two recent successors as U.S. The first African American to be named U.S. 20, bestowed by the University of California, Riverside and the Los Angeles Review of Books during the school’s 44 th annual Writers Week, to be held online. Dove, who joined UVA’s Creative Writing faculty in 1989, also will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award on Feb. ![]()
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