National Book Foundation to Present Lifetime Achievement Award to Rita Dove
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 10, 2023
You can find the full Associated Press announcement here.
The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, announced that it will award Rita Dove with the 2023 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL). Dove’s sweeping body of work features eleven books of poetry, including Museum, Grace Notes, Selected Poems, Mother Love, On . . .