Adrienne Rich is one of the foremost poets and feminists of modern times. Her work spans more than forty years of her adult life, beginning in 1951 when she won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize for A Change of World (1951). Ever since, Rich's...

Adrienne Rich has made significant contributions as a critic, a scholar, and a teacher; but she speaks most importantly as a poet. Her work sustains her belief that "Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language which is the power of our...

Adrienne Rich is one of the foremost feminist theorists of our time. Her work spans more than thirty years of her adult life, beginning in 1951 when she graduated from Radcliffe College and won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize for A Change of...

Adrienne Rich (born 1929), perhaps more than any other contemporary poet, crystallized in her work and life the deeply complex, awakening consciousness of modern women. The daughter of Arnold Rich, a professor of medicine, and Helen, a trained composer...