Poet Rita Dove to receive an honorary National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement oleantimesherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from oleantimesherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Besides the Pulitzer, she has received both a National Humanities Medal and National Medal of Arts, an NAACP Image Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation and a National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress.
Besides the Pulitzer, she has received both a National Humanities Medal and National Medal of Arts, an NAACP Image Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation and a National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress.