Rita Dove: An American Poet

Rita Dove: An American Poet
Photo by Montes-Bradley.
Directed byEduardo Montes-Bradley
Produced byHeritage Film Project
StarringRita Dove
Music byJudith Shatin, Franz Peter Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach
Distributed byAlexander Street Press Filmakers Library, Kanopy
Release date
  • January 31, 2014 (2014-01-31)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Rita Dove: An American Poet is a 2014 documentary film produced, directed and edited by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. It is a biographical sketch of U.S. Poet Laureate and National Medal of Arts winner Rita Dove.

The film explores the poet's life, exposing fundamental facts of Dove's childhood and formative years growing up in Akron, Ohio in the 1950s and during the turbulent 1960s.[1][2]

  1. ^ "JMRL - Crozet". www.jmrl.org. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
  2. ^ Maurer, David A. "New documentary about Rita Dove explores music, family and other forces that shaped a poet". The Daily Progress. Retrieved 2020-12-09.