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- Birth nameAdrienne Cecile Rich
- Adrienne Rich was born on May 16, 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She is known for Listening for Something... Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation (1996) and La tribu de las palabras (2002). She was married to Alfred H. Conrad. She died on March 27, 2012 in Santa Cruz, California, USA.
- SpouseAlfred H. Conrad(1953 - 1970) (his death, 3 children)
- Was an English professor at Stanford University from 1986 to 1993. She also has teaching experience at Swarthmore, Columbia, Brandeis, Rutgers, Cornell, San Jose State University.
- She declined the American National Medal of the Arts by the National Endowment Foundation in 1997 for her services to literature.
- Following the death of her husband, she has been in a relationship with novelist Michelle Cliff since 1976.
- Graduated from Radcliffe College.
- W.H. Auden chose her first book for the Yale Younger Poets prize.
- On imagination: A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
- Poetry is not a healing lotion, an emotional massage, a kind of linguistic aromatherapy.
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