Former Poet Laureate Rita Dove to read from her poetry at Yale.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-27 October 2004-YALE UNIVERSITY: Former Poet Laureate Rita Dove to read from her poetry at Yale(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10262004 New Haven, Conn. - Rita Dove, the first African-American poet to serve as the nation's Poet Laureate, will read from her poetry on November 30, 4 p.m., at Yale's Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets.

Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995 and is currently Poet Laureate of Virginia. She has received numerous literary and academic honors, among them the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the 2003 Emily Couric Leadership Award, the 2001 Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1997 Sara Lee Frontrunner Award, the 1997...