Inside Scoop | Rita Dove
- Event Type
- Other
- Sponsor
- Humanities Research Institute (HRI)
- Location
- Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St., Urbana)
- Date
- Apr 15, 2026 12:00 pm
- Speaker
- Rita Dove
- Contact
- HRI
- info-hri@illinois.edu
- Views
- 30
- Originating Calendar
- HRI
Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Rita Dove. Cohosted with the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center.
About the Speaker
Rita Dove served as US Poet Laureate from 1993–1995. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award, she also received the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama. Other recent honors are the 2021 Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where she currently serves as vice president for literature, a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation and both the 2019 Wallace Stevens Award and the 2024 Leadership Award from the Academy of American Poets.