Rita Dove has won the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was U.S. Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress. She is also a 1970 graduate of Buchtel High School where she was a Presidential Scholar.
As part of the Bernard I. Rosen Memorial Lecture Series, Dr. Dove addressed a full auditorium at her alma mater last evening. In the audience, were Akron Public Schools students who also had a chance to meet one of the school's most famous and noteworthy alums.