“Rita Dove: An American Poet” (Trailer) by Eduardo Montes-Bradley

"Rita Dove: An American Poet" is a documentary film produced, directed and edited by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. It is a biographical sketch of US Poet Laureate and National Medal of Arts winner Rita Dove. The film explores the poet's life beyond the otherwise extensive and readily available information in Internet and Social Media,exposing fundamental facts of Dove’s childhood and formative years growing up in Akron, Ohio in the 1950s and during the turbulent 1960’s.