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August 18, 1995
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Rita Dove didn't let winning a Pulitzer Prize stop her preparing her husband's 40th birthday party. Judith Palmer met the personal Poet Laureate with the public face

"Don't ever bring poets near me again," raged President Lyndon B Johnson in 1965, after Robert Lowell, former consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress, had the nerve to stage a Vietnam protest.

Happily, relations between poets and American presidents are running a little more smoothly these days. So when American Poet Laureate Rita Dove joined Jimmy Carter to open the UK Year of Literature & Writing's Literature Proms in Swansea last weekend, the only sparks flying were in the town's celebratory fireworks.

While Dove took ...

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