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  "Straw Hat & Dusting"
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  "Rosa"
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  "American Smooth"
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  "Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove"
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• Ten Poems, Penumbra Press, 1977 - out of print
  

• The Yellow House on the Corner, Carnegie Mellon, 1980, 1989
  

• The Only Dark Spot in the Sky, Porch Publications, 1980 - out of print
  

• Mandolin, Ohio Review Press, 1982 - out of print
  

• Museum, Carnegie Mellon, 1983, 1992
  

• Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry (contributor), Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1985 - out of print
  

• Thomas and Beulah, Carnegie Mellon, 1986
  

• Harper American Literature> (contributor), Harper & Row, 1987, 1997
  

• The Other Side of the House, Pyracantha Press, 1988 - out of print
  

• Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (contributor), Longman, 1989, 1992
  

• Grace Notes, W. W. Norton, 1989, paperback 1991
  

• Contemporary American Poetry (contributor), 5th and 7th edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, 2001, 2006
  

• Poets in Person: A Listener's Guide, Modern Poetry Association, 1992
  

• Selected Poems, Pantheon/Vintage, 1993
  

• A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women (contributor), Story Line Press, 1994
  

• Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (contributor), Back Bay Books, 1994
  

• Lady Freedom Among Us (poem commissioned by the University of Virginia Library as its four-millionth volume), Janus Press, 1994, available online
  

• The Darker Face of the Earth (verse drama), Story Line Press, 1994, 1996, 2000 - out of print
  

• The Language of Life, Doubleday, 1995
  

• Norton Anthology of American Literature (contributor), 4th Edition, W. W. Norton, 1994, 1995, 1998
  

• The Poet's World (essays), Library of Congress, 1995 - out of print
  

• Mother Love, W. W. Norton, 1995
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• Twentieth-Century Poetry and Poetics (contributor), Oxford University Press, 1996
  

• The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry (contributor), Harper Collins, 1996
  

• Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (contributor), W. W. Norton, 1996
  

• Riverside Anthology of Literature (contributor), 3rd Edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1997
  

• Approaching Poetry - Perspectives and Responses (contributor), St. Martin's Press, 1997
  

• Anthology of American Literature, vol. II: Realism to the Present (contributor), Prentice Hall, 1997
  

• Norton Anthology of African American Literature (contributor), W. W. Norton, 1997, 2004
  

• Heath Anthology of American Literature (contributor), 3rd Edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1997
  

• Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (contributor), Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997, 2002
  

• Call & Response - The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (contributor), Houghton Mifflin, 1998
  

• Laurels - Eight Women Poets (contributor), SCOP Publications, 1998
  

• Evening Primrose, Tanheim-Santrizos, 1998
  

• On the Bus with Rosa Parks, W. W. Norton, 1999
  

• The Best American Poetry 2000 (editor), Scribner, 2000
  

• New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America (contributor), Prentice-Hall, 2001
  

• Conversations with Rita Dove, Ingersoll, Earl G., University Press of Mississippi, 2003
  

• Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry (contributor), 3rd Edition, W. W. Norton, 2003
  

• American Literature (contributor), Vol. II, Penguin, 2004
  

• American Smooth, W. W. Norton, 2004, paperback 2006
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• Responding to Literature (contributor), McGraw-Hill, 2005
  

• The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (contributor), Autumn House Press, 2005
  

• Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry, Oxford University Press, 2005
  

• The Longman Anthology of Poetry, Pearson Longman, 2006
  

• American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (contributor), Oberlin College Press, 2006
  

• 20th Century Poetry & Poetics (contributor), 5th Edition, Oxford University Press, 2006
  

• Rita Dove Reading from her poems, CD, The Poetry Archive, 2006
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• Understanding Rita Dove by Pat Righelato. University of South Carolina Press, 2006.
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• Sonata Mulattica, W W Norton & Co 2009.
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