Through the Ivory Gate by Rita Dove6/30/2023 ![]() Her other books of poetry include Collected Poems 1974-2004, Sonata Mulattica, American Smooth, On the Bus with Rosa Parks, Mother Love, Grace Notes, Museum, The Yellow House on the Corner and Selected Poems she has also published a collection of stories, Fifth Sunday, a novel, Through the Ivory Gate, a collection of her Poet Laureate lectures, The Poet’s World, and a verse drama, The Darker Face of the Earth, which had its premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1996 and was produced at the Kennedy Center and the Royal National Theatre, among others. She received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book Thomas and Beulah. Poet Laureate from 1993-1995 and Special Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress bicentennial in 1999/2000 she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004-2006. ![]() ![]() Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia, Rita Dove was U.S. ![]()
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