TWA Poets: Adrienne Rich
1929 - 2012
On this day, Adrienne Cecile Rich, an American poet, essayist and feminist was born in Baltimore, MD. She attended Radcliffe College, graduating in 1951, and was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize.
Adrienne married economist Alfred Conrad and had three sons. Her writings evolved in to more confrontational work that explo…