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Rita Dove was the first woman poet laureate in the United States. She was appointed in 1993, the first woman, first African American and the youngest to receive this honor. She held the position for two years. Thomas and Beulah, a collection of poems loosely based on her grandparents' life, also earned her a 1987 Pulitzer Prize, making her the second African American poet to receive the award. In 2004 she was appointed by then Governor Mark Warner as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Her latest poetry collection, Sonata Mulattica, was published in the spring of 2009.
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