Two essential resources for audio recordings of Adrienne Rich reading her poetry are the University of Pennsylvania’s PennSound site and the Woodberry Poetry Room collection at Harvard University. Audio files here are from Rich’s recordings for the University of Cincinnati’s Elliston Project; from the 92nd Street Y in New York City; from PennSound; and from…
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I can’t write a poem to manipulate you; it will not succeed. Perhaps you have read such poems and decided you don’t care for poetry; something turned you away. I can’t write a poem from dishonest motives; it will betray its shoddy provenance, like an ill-made tool, a scissors, a drill, it will not serve…
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▸ Radcliffe College’s Arthur & Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America The Schlesinger Library is home to the papers of Adrienne Rich. In addition, Rich donated some papers to the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York City; other correspondence, including drafts of poems and criticism, can also be found in libraries housing the…
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Adrienne Rich 