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WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Adrienne Rich, one of America’s
most celebrated poets, will read from her work Monday,
Sept. 22, at Wellesley College. The reading, which is free
and open to the public, will take place at 4:30 pm in Jewett
Auditorium.
Since receiving the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1951 at
the age of 19, Adrienne Rich has written more than 15 volumes
of poetry, including Diving into the Wreck and Midnight
Salvage. She has also written several books of nonfiction
prose, including Arts of the Possible: Essays & Conversations and What
is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics.
She is the recipient of the 1999 Lannan Foundation Lifetime
Achievement Award. She has also been distinguished by the
Academy of Poetry Fellowship, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize,
the Common Wealth Award in Literature, the National Book
Award, 1996 Tanning Award for Mastery in the Art of Poetry
and the MacArthur Fellowship. In 2003, she was awarded
the Bollingen Prize for Poetry.
Poet W.S. Merwin writes, “Rich’s poems, volume
after volume, have been the makings of one of the authentic,
unpredictable, urgent, essential voices of our time. All
of her life she has been in love with the hope of telling
the utter truth, and her command of language from the first
has been startlingly powerful.”
The reading is sponsored by the Wellesley College Writing
Program, the English Department, Women’s Studies
and the Wilson Committee. For more information, please
call Donna Lepri, the Writing Program, at 781-283-2576,
or 781-283-3771.
Since 1875, Wellesley College has been a leader in providing
an excellent liberal-arts education for women who will
make a difference in the world. Its 500-acre campus near
Boston is home to 2,300 undergraduate students from all
50 states and 68 countries.
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