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Archive for category: 21 Love Poems to Adrienne Rich

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30.042012September 10, 2019
Tonya Foster: “Adrienne Rich’s work stands as testament to a profoundly engaged refusal to sit quietly.”

Tonya Foster: “Adrienne Rich’s work stands as testament to a profoundly engaged refusal to sit quietly.”

By Tonya FosterIn 21 Love Poems to Adrienne Rich

from “The Burning of Paper Instead of Children” 2. To imagine a time of silence or few words a time of chemistry and music  ...

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29.042012September 10, 2019

Tara Betts on Rich: “Her poems hit me . . . like lotus blossoms with a special ability to detonate.”

By Tara BettsIn 21 Love Poems to Adrienne Rich

When I think of Adrienne Rich, I do not always think of specific poems, even though her poems later hit me like lotus blossoms with...

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28.042012September 10, 2019

Wendy S. Walters on Rich: “This is why we need each other to get where we are going.”

By Wendy S. WaltersIn 21 Love Poems to Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich understood that being underestimated afforded one liberty to innovate. She predicted that most of us would have to revise our perception of power...

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27.042012September 10, 2019

With whom do you believe your lot is cast?

By Tamiko BeyerIn 21 Love Poems to Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich made the space for so many to come to poetry, to bring who we are – in all our queerness and rage and...

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26.042012September 10, 2019

Rachel Zucker on Rich: “I have turned to her prose the way one turns to a mother, for guidance, comfort, power, and commiseration.”

By Rachel ZuckerIn 21 Love Poems to Adrienne Rich

As a new-to-the-school ninth grader I had the chutzpah to go to the chair of the English department and complain that my English class wasn’t...

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25.042012September 10, 2019

Peal in the Labyrinth

By Marcelle HeathIn 21 Love Poems to Adrienne Rich

On Thursday, September 29, 2005 I traveled up to Miller Theatre at Columbia University, certain that this evening – Adrienne Rich would be reading old...

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24.042012September 10, 2019

On Adrienne Rich: “She Showed Me How Poets Ought to Live.”

By Patricia Spears JonesIn 21 Love Poems to Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich loomed large in my life as a young poet and person.  She showed me how poets ought to live.  I went to a...

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23.042012September 10, 2019

A Mother’s Legacy: The “Fanciful” Made Essential

By Margaret RondaIn 21 Love Poems to Adrienne Rich

My mother and I did not have poetry in common. She was a lifelong activist for social justice, a lesbian and feminist of Adrienne Rich’s...

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22.042012September 10, 2019

From Santa Cruz Direct to Grinnell, Iowa: Tell the Truth But Tell It Not-Slant

By Martha SilanoIn 21 Love Poems to Adrienne Rich

I was nineteen, recently enrolled at a reputable mid-western liberal arts college. I had aspirations of becoming a poet, but my professors insisted that first...

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21.042012September 10, 2019

As If Style Needed a Champion

By Kathrine VarnesIn 21 Love Poems to Adrienne Rich

I spent most of my early feminist life arguing against Adrienne Rich, especially the way her early characterization of form as asbestos gloves became paradigmatic...

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