Rita Dove
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 Rita Dove facts

• From 1993 to 1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
• She is the first African-American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86)
• Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000
• Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006