Rita Dove

Rita Dove is a playwright, fiction writer, ballroom dancer, musician, editor, professor and poet, most widely known as a Pulitzer Prize winning poet (for Thomas and Beulah (Carnegie Mellon, 1987) and Poet Laureate of both the United States and Virginia. Her other honors include the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Art and the Carole Weinstein Prize in poetry. The most recent of her poetry collections is Sonata Mulattica (Norton, 2009).  "Pulling the Organ Stops" was first published in Shenandoah 58/3.