Teacher

Adrienne Rich on poetry

Below are the best resources we could find featuring adrienne rich about poetry.

Adrienne Rich
FindCenter Video Image

Poetry in Person

“In the fall of 1970, at the New School in Greenwich Village, a new teacher posted a flyer on the wall,” begins Alexander Neubauer’s introduction to this remarkable book. “It read ‘Meet Poets and Poetry, with Pearl London and Guests.’ ” Few students responded.

book
Alexander Neubauer (editor)
2011
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women

Here is the good stuff: poetry written by women that actually excites the thinking reader. This anthology, spanning work of the last 75 years, will broaden its readers’ notions of what defines erotic poetry.

book
Enid Shomer (editor)
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
02:30

Adrienne Rich: "For Ethel Rosenberg"

In this excerpt from the documentary "Unknown Secrets: Art & the Rosenberg Era" Adrienne Rich is captured reading her poem, 'For Ethel Rosenberg" at Boston's Faneuil Hall.

video
Adrienne Rich
2012
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
03:22

Adrienne Rich "Dedication"

Dedication - Poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929-2012) recorded in Madison, WI on April 23rd, 1997.

video
Adrienne Rich
2013
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

The Will to Change: Poems 1968–1970

The young New York poet confronts the reality of life in this collection of nineteen works. "The Will to Change must be read whole: for its tough distrust of completion and for its cool declaratives which fix us with a stare more unsettling than the most hysterical questions...

book
Adrienne Rich
1971
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

My Hero: Adrienne Rich by Eve Ensler

"She taught me that the lives of women existed in the future and that language was the pathway to that future."

article
Eve Ensler
2012
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Twenty-One Love Poems [Poem III]

Rich's “Twenty-One Love Poems,” written between 1974 and 1976, is a moving account of the ups and downs of a romantic relationship.

In respect of copyright, we cannot display the poem here. Click the link to read it.

poem
Adrienne Rich
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
07:45

Adrienne Rich "North American Time"

North American Time - A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929-2012) recorded in Madison, WI on April 23rd, 1997.

video
Adrienne Rich
2013
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

Through journals, letters, dreams, and close readings of the work of many poets, Adrienne Rich reflects on how poetry and politics enter and impinge on American life. This expanded edition includes a new preface by the author as well as her post–9/11 "Six Meditations in Place of a Lecture."

book
Adrienne Rich
2003
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
02:53

Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"

The Art of Translation - Poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929-2012) recorded in Madison, WI on April 23rd, 1997.

video
Adrienne Rich
2013
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Loader Image

EXPLORE RELATED TOPICS

EXPLORE RELATED TEACHERS

UP NEXT

Gloria Steinem

Photo Credit: David Corio / Contributor / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images