RDRita Dove

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Rita Dove

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01Undated

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

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02Undated

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

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03Undated

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

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04Undated

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us.

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