There was a woman poet who taught at Arizona State University.  She
was denied tenure, because she didn't have a Ph.D.  She then won a
Pulitzer for Poetry and took a job at Harvard.  What is her name?

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 04 Jun 2004 00:36 PDT

Hi waddington,

Since I'm not certain this is the poet you are seeking, I am posting
this here for your clarification.

Could the poet be Jorie Graham, winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry?

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/10.08/PoetPulitzerWin.html

Please let me know if this is the one.

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Clarification of Question by waddington-ga on 04 Jun 2004 06:43 PDT

She won the prize pre-1990's.  Thanks, T

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 04 Jun 2004 07:15 PDT

Are you perhaps thinking of Rita Dove?  I believe that she was
actually tenured at Arizona State, and left after she won her Pulitzer
Prize in 1987.  But she apparently didn't have a Ph.D.  And she is on
a visiting committee at Harvard.

"Rita Dove -- Biographical Information"
Department of English at the University of Virginia
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/dove.html

"The Rita Dove HomePage"
Univerisity of Virginia
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b/

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Clarification of Question by waddington-ga on 06 Jun 2004 15:00 PDT

Could be.  Good enough.  Thanks.

Hello waddington,

I'm glad my suggestion is good enough.  I will repost the Rita Dove
links here.  (You might also be interested in the links collected on
the Rita Dove HomePage, as well as results for searches on Google such
as ["rita dove" "arizona state"].)

"Rita Dove -- Biographical Information"
Department of English at the University of Virginia
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/dove.html

"The Rita Dove HomePage"
Univerisity of Virginia
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b/

- justaskscott


I searched for the following terms, in various combinations, on Google:

"arizona state"
harvard
pulitzer
poetry
"rita dove"

Thank you.