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Rita Dove, Garrison Keillor & John Sebastian at Chautauqua Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 241 seconds Rita Dove & Garrison Keillor join John Sebastian and his Jug Band in singing "Stealin'..." for the finale of A Prairie Home Companion, Chautauqua, New York, June 1994. Related: band, chautauqua, companion, garrison, home, john, jug, keillor, laureate, poet, prairie, sebastian |
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Rita Dove playing the viola da gamba Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 204 seconds Rita Dove is playing her viola da gamba with the University of Virginia Early Music Consort, April 1993 Related: charlottesville, early_music, gamba, poet, poet_laureate, university_of_virginia |
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Rita Dove & Garrison Keillor sing a spiritual at Chautauqua Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 288 seconds Rita Dove & Garrison Keillor sing a spiritual together on A Prairie Home Companion, Chautauqua, New York, June 1994. Related: chautauqua, garrison, keillor, laureate, poem, poems, poet, poetry, poets, spiritual |
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Rita Dove -- Poetic Statement Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 446 seconds Former U.S. Poet Laureate & Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove gives a poetic statement during an Academy of American Poets panel called "Drawing from the Past / Breaking from the Past", New York City, Oct. 20, 2007 Related: laureate, poet, poetics, poetry, poets, prize, pulitzer |
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Port Fairie Folk Festival Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 275 seconds Finale of the Port Fairy Folk Festival, Victoria, Australia, March 2005. John McCutcheon leads other singers, including Guy Davis, and special guest, former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove, in "This Land is My Land." Related: australia, davis, festival, folk, guy, john, laureate, mccutcheon, music, poet, pulitzer, song, u.s., victoria |
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Rita Dove reading poems in 1987 Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 554 seconds In the spring of 1987, a few weeks after receiving the Pulitzer Prize, Rita Dove is reading several of her poems at "Writers at Work" in Park City, Utah. (Correction: The event she refers to in the first poem took place in 1937, not 1957.) Related: poem, poems, poet, poetry, poets |
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Rita Dove im "Literaturcafe", 1987 Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 581 seconds Pulitzer-Preisträger in Rita Dove wird von Jürgen Tomm in der Sendung "Literaturcafe" interviewt, live vom Cafe Einstein in Berlin, November 1987. Copyright der Gedichte bei Rita Dove. Video Embedding erlaubt. Nachdruck und jeder andere Gebrauch der Gedichte ist nur mit Rita Doves schriftlicher Genehmigung gestattet. Related: berlin, cafe, dichter, dichterin, dichtung, einstein, gedicht, gedichte, literaturcafe, lyrik, poems, poet, poetry, poets, pulitzer |
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John Mccutcheon sings Rita Dove Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 309 seconds John McCutcheon sings "Claudette Colvin", after Rita Dove's poem "Claudette Colvin Goes To Work", with a guest appearance by Rita Dove. Paramount Theater, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 26, 2006. Song published on John McCutcheon's CD "Mightier Than The Sword". Authorized video recording by Fred Viebahn. Related: folk_music, folk_song, poem, poet_laureate, poetry, song |
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FLASH CARDS - Rita Dove Animated Poetry Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 60 seconds Rita Dove reads her poem FLASH CARDS (from her poetry collection GRACE NOTES, 1989); the animation was produced for Lifetime TV in 1994. Related: animated, animation, poem, poems, poet, poetry, poets |
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Rita Dove reading her poetry in Chautauqua (part 1) Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 426 seconds Rita Dove reads her poetry on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, live from Chautauqua, New York, June 1994. Part 1 of 2. © of poems by Rita Dove. Reprint only permitted with the author's written permission. Related: chautauqua, garrison, keillor, laureate, poem, poems, poet, poetry, poets |
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Rita Dove reading her poem "Prose in a Small Space" Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 125 seconds Former U.S. Poet Laureate & Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove reads her prose poem "Prose in a Small Space" at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, March 2007. Copyright by Rita Dove. Website embedding of video permitted. Reprint or any other use prohibited. Related: laureate, ohio, poem, poems, poet, poet_laureate, poetry, poets, prose, pulitzer_prize, wittenberg |
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Rita Dove sings opera arias (benefit concert, part 1 of 8) Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 567 seconds Rita Dove sings opera arias at a benefit concert for Region Ten Community Services, accompanied on the piano by George Francois. Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC), Charlottesville, Virginia, March 28, 2002. Related: charlottesville, george_francois, opera, poet_laureate, pvcc, region_ten, soprano, university_of_virginia, uva, virginia |
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Rita Dove & Terry Dean Dancing a Foxtrot Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 239 seconds Poet Rita Dove (latest poetry book: "American Smooth", 2004) is dancing a foxtrot with her instructor Terry Dean at a ballroom dance showcase in Charlottesville, Virginia, spring 2003. Choreography: Terry Dean and Rita Dove. Dress designed and made by Rita Dove. Related: american_smooth, ballroom, ballroom_dancing, charlottesville, dance, foxtrot, poet, poet_laureate, poets, pulitzer_prize |
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Rita Dove & Fred Viebahn Dancing a Rumba Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 321 seconds Rita Dove and her husband Fred Viebahn dance a Rumba at a ballroom showcase in Charlottesville, Virginia, fall 2003. Choreography by Rita Dove & Fred Viebahn. Music arranged and sung by John Carden. Related: ballroom, ballroom_dancing, charlottesville, dance, poet, poet_laureate, pulitzer_prize, rhumba, rumba |
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Aviva Dove-Viebahn & Edwin Roa: Paso Doble / Tango Showcase Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 188 seconds Aviva Dove-Viebahn and Edwin Roa are dancing a Paso Doble / Tango combination at a ballroom dance showcase in Charlottesville, Virginia, spring 2000. Choreography by Edwin Roa and Aviva Dove-Viebahn. Related: ballroom, ballroom_dancing, charlottesville, dance, fred_viebahn, paso_doble, poet, poet_laureate, poets, rita_dove, tango |
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Rita Dove sings "Carmen" Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 535 seconds Rita Dove in the final scene from "Carmen", University of Virginia Opera Workshop under the direction of Edmund Najera, May 1993 Related: carmen, charlottesville, opera, poet, poet_laureate, poets, pulitzer_prize, soprano, university_of_virginia |
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Rita Dove reading at "America's Millennium" Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 201 seconds Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove reads her poem "Millennium Song" at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C., during the White House celebration called "America's Millennium". Dec. 31,1999, 11:45 p.m. Copyright by Rita Dove. Website embedding of video permitted. Reprint or any other use prohibited. Related: laureate, millennium, poem, poet, poet_laureate, poetry, poets |
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Fred Viebahn and Cary May Dancing a Ballroom Medley Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 216 seconds Fred Viebahn and his dance instructor Cary May dancing a medley of Tango, Foxtrot and Quickstep at a ballroom showcase in Charlottesville, Virgina, fall 2003. Choreography by Cary May and Fred Viebahn. Related: ballroom, ballroom_dancing, charlottesville, dance, foxtrot, quickstep, rita_dove, tango |
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Rita Dove reading her poetry at Pablo Neruda's grave Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 220 seconds Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove is reading her poems "Geometry" and "Pastoral" at Pablo Neruda's grave in Isla Negra, Chile, followed by Spanish translations. March 2001. Copyright by Rita Dove. Website embedding of video permitted. Reprint or any other use prohibited. Related: chile, isla_negra, laureate, neruda, pablo, poem, poems, poet_laureate, pulitzer_prize |
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Rita Dove: Lady Freedom Among Us Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 330 seconds U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove reads her poem "Lady Freedom Among Us" at the 200th anniversary of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., Oct. 1993. Copyright by Rita Dove. Website embedding of video permitted. Reprint or any other use prohibited. Related: capitol, freedom, laureate, poem, poems, poet, poetry, poets, washington |
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Rita Dove reading a poem at the Clinton Center Opening Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 143 seconds Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove reads her poem "This Life" at the dedication ceremony of the William Jefferson Clinton Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, Nov. 2004. Copyright by Rita Dove. Website embedding of video permitted. Reprint or any other use prohibited. Related: bill_clinton, clinton_center, laureate, little_rock, poem, poems, poet, poet_laureate, poetry, poets, recital, songs, soprano |
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Rita Dove reading her poetry in Chautauqua (part 2) Posted by: forsicht
Video duration: 195 seconds U.S. Poet Laureate amd Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove reads her poems on Garrison Keillor's radio program "A Prairie Home Companion", broadcast live from Chautauqua, New York in June 1994 (Part 2 of 2). © of poems by Rita Dove. Reprint requires the author's written permission. Related: chautauqua, garrison, keillor, laureate, poem, poems, poet, poetry, poets |






















