Adolescence II (Although it is night, I sit in the bathroom, waiting) | 1989 | Poem | http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/rita_dove/poems/2201
http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove8.html
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15832
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172129 |
Afield (Out where crows dip to their kill) | | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove2.html
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/poems-RD.html#rd7 |
American Smooth (poems) | 2004 | Collection | |
American Smooth (We were dancing - it must have) | | Poem | http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do;jsessionid=6DEB2577DC0C9939516ACBCCBAE462C2?poemId=6723 |
Banneker (What did he do except lie) | 1983 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172127 |
Cozy Apologia (I could pick anything and think of you) | 2003 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=31073 |
DayStar (She wanted a little room for thinking) | | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove7.html |
Die Verschwundenen/The Vanished (translation) (It wasnt the earth) | 1998 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=29555 |
Dusting (Every day a wilderness - no) | 1981 | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove16.html
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=24214 |
Exit (Just when hope withers, the visa is granted) | 1995 | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove13.html |
Fifth Grade Autobiography (I was four in this photograph fishing) | 1989 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=182222 |
Fifth Sunday (short stories) | 1985 | Collection | |
Flirtation (After all, theres no need) | 1982 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=24488 |
Golden Oldie (I made it home early, only to get) | 1995 | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove12.html |
Grace Notes (poems) | 1989 | Collection | |
Hades Pitch (If I could just touch your ankle , he whispers, there) | 1995 | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/poems-RD.html#rd0
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19857
http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove5.html |
Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove (late, in aqua and) | | Poem | http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=6724 |
Heart to Heart (Its neither red) | 2004 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=182220 |
Heroes (A flower in a weedy field) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/poems-RD.html#dove1 |
Hirsch & Dove on Political Poetry | 2009 | Essay | http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21787 |
History (Everythings a metaphor, some wise) | | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove3.html
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/poems-RD.html#rd6 |
I Have Been a Stranger in a Strange Land (It wasnt bliss. What was) | 2002 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=30842 |
Lady Freedom among Us (dont lower your eyes) | 1994 | Poem | http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DovLady.html
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/fourmill/DovLady.html
http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:475887
http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove14.html |
Lost Brilliance (I miss that corridor drenched in shadow) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/poems-RD.html#rd8 |
Mandolin (poems) | 1982 | Collection | |
Mother Love (poems) | 1995 | Collection | |
Museum (poems) | 1983 | Collection | |
My Mother Enters the Work Force (The path to ABC Business School) | | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove10.html
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/poems-RD.html#rd2 |
On Post-Racial Literature | 2009 | Essay | http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21327 |
On the Bus with Rosa Parks (poems) | 1999 | Collection | |
Parsley (There is a parrot imitating spring) | 1983 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172128 |
Persephone, Falling (One narcissus among the ordinary beautiful) | 1995 | Poem | http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19856 |
Political (There was a man spent seven years in hells circles) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/poems-RD.html#dove2 |
Primer for the Nuclear Age (At the edge of the mariners) | | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove9.html
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/poems-RD.html#primer%20for%20nuke |
Reunion 2005 | 2005 | Poem | |
Reverie in Open Air (I acknowledge my status as a stranger) | 2003 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=30991 |
Rosa (How she sat there) | 1998 | Poem | http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do;jsessionid=6DEB2577DC0C9939516ACBCCBAE462C2?poemId=6722 |
Rusks (This is how it happened) | | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove6.html
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/poems-RD.html#dove3 |
Selected Poems | 1993 | Collection | |
Sonata Mulattica (poems) | 2009 | Collection | |
Sonnet in Primary Colors (This is for the woman with one black wing) | | Poem | http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/poems-RD.html#rd1 |
Straw Hat (In the city, under the saw-toothed leaves of an oak) | 1986 | Poem | http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do;jsessionid=6DEB2577DC0C9939516ACBCCBAE462C2?poemId=6720 |
Teach Us to Number Our Days (In the old neighborhood, each funeral) | 1989 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172130 |
Ten Poems | 1977 | Collection | |
Testimonial (Back when the earth was new) | 1998 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=29339 |
The Bistro Styx (She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness) | 1995 | Poem | http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/rita_dove/poems/2202
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15707
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172124 |
The Boast (At the dinner table, before the) | | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove4.html
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/poems-RD.html#rd3 |
The Bridgetower (If was at the Beginning. If) | 2008 | Poem | http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/11/24/081124po_poem_dove |
The Darker Face of the Earth (play) | 1994 | Play | |
The Fish in the Stone | | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove15.html
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/poems-RD.html#rd4 |
The Great Palaces of Versailles (Nothing nastier than a white person!) | 1986 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172134 |
The Language of Life | 1995 | | |
The Musical Influence | 2007 | Essay | http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20412 |
The Only Dark Spot in the Sky (poems) | 1980 | Collection | |
The Other Side of the House (poems) | 1988 | Collection | |
The Poets World (essays) | 1995 | Collection | |
The Poets World (lecture) | 1995 | Oration | |
The Secret Garden (I was ill, lying on my bed of old papers) | 1989 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172131 |
The Yellow House on the Corner (poems) | 1980 | Collection | |
There Came a Soul (She arrived as near to virginal) | 1983 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172126 |
Thomas and Beulah (poems) | 1986 | Collection | |
Through the Ivory Gate (novel) | 1993 | Book | |
Tribute to Lucille Clifton | 2001 | Essay | http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21313 |
Under the Viaduct, 1932 | 1988 | Poem | |
Used (The conspiracys to make us thin) | | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove1.html
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/poems-RD.html#rd5 |
Vacation (I love the hour before takeoff) | | Poem | http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/17005 |
Weathering Out | 1988 | Poem | |
Wingfoot Lake (On her 36th birthday, Thomas had shown her) | 1986 | Poem | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172133 |
Wiring Home (Lest the wolves loose their whistles) | 1995 | Poem | http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove11.html |