"Finding Your Roots," a PBS documentary series hosted by Harvard professor and historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., has taken viewers on journeys exploring the ancestral histories of celebrities for ...

It began as a mystery. Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate of the United States Rita Dove was having a quiet evening at home watching television with her husband when they noticed ...

What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. There she is up where the air is thin, where men still outnumber ...

I mean, half of fear—well, half of anything—is the fear of the unknown.” -Rita Dove On April 5, 2016, former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove was honored as Oregon State University’s Stone ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reveals inspiring ancestors of novelist Amy Tan & poet Rita Dove. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of two award-winning writers: novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove ...

It is suggested that Rita Dove wrote ‘Cozy Apologia’ as a tribute to her husband American poet, Rita Dove is married to fellow-writer Fred Viebahn and Cozy Apologia seems to be an affectionate ...

In this episode, Testament and Imtiaz Dharker discuss the poems ‘Cozy Apologia’ by Rita Dove and ‘Living Space’ by Imtiaz Dharker. Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds.