Books and Printed Materials (Books Selected by Rita Dove)
Dove, Rita. Selected Poems, Pantheon Books, 1993
Dove, Rita Mother Love: Poems, W. W. Norton and Company, 1996
Dove, Rita Thomas and Beulah: Poems, Carnegie-Mellon University press, 1987.Selected Books by Rita Dove
Books on Writing
Elbow, Peter. Writing Without Teachers, Oxford University Press, 1998; Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process, Oxford University Press, 1998.
Goldberg, Natalie, Writing Down the Bones, Shambhala Publishing 1986
Johnson, Jean. Bedford Guide to the Research Process, Bedford Books, 1997..
Kemper, David, Writer's Inc, A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning, Write Source Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.
Koch, Kenneth, Making your own days: The pleasure of reading and writing poetry. Simon & Shuster, 1999