Adrienne Rich
April 18–19, 2005
- Reading: Streaming video, MP3 audio
- Discussion: Streaming video, MP3 audio
- Introduction by Alicia Oltuski: MP3
- Individual recordings: Pennsound audio files
- See the Kelly Writers House calendar entry for more about this event
- Photos of Rich's visit
- Rich praises the Kelly Writers House and the people she met as a Fellow
- 2005 Fellows seminar notes
April 19 Discussion
Listen to the whole discussion, moderated by Al Filreis MP3.
- discussion of Wait MP3
- trying to talk of the man and American nationalism MP3
- on then and now in poetry MP3
- Rich's creative process MP3
- teaching Poetry to those who fear it MP3
- books that have influenced Rich MP3
- happiness as the opposite of guilt MP3
- on the sacred MP3
- on June Jordan MP3
- Rich reads from a poem written for June Jordan MP3
- Judaism in Rich's poetry MP3
- sexual desire in poetry MP3
- how imagination leads us to surpass ourselves MP3
- Rich reads from an essay on the survival of poetry MP3
- Rich reads from the end of Then or Now MP3
Bio
Poet, essayist, and cultural critic Adrienne Rich is among the most widely admired and thought provoking writers in the United States. She received the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1951, at the age of twenty-one, and has since authored sixteen volumes of poetry, including Diving into the Wreck (1972), for which she received the National Book Award. Her essays and poems are taught across the country in most English programs and Women's Studies courses. She is the recipient of nearly every major literary award including the 1999 Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, and the MacArthur "genius" grant.
Pennsound audio files
Introductions
From Midnight Salvage (1999)
- Introduction to Letters to a Young Poet (0:26)
- Letters to a Young Poet (4:27)
- Introduction to The Art of Translation (0:41)
- The Art of Translation (2:36)
From Dark Fields of the Republic (1995)
- Introduction to What Kind of Times Are These? (0:29)
- What Kind of Times Are These? (1:17)
- Introduction to From Pierced Darkness, New York, December (0:10)
- From Pierced Darkness, New York, December (3:52)
From Fox
- Introduction to Victory (1:04)
- Victory (3:45)
- Introduction to Rauschenberg's Bed (1:23)
- Rauschenberg's Bed (1:44)
From The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004
- Introduction to Centaur's Requiem (0:33)
- Centaur's Requiem (0:56)
- Introduction to Equinox (0:06)
- Equinox (2:09)
- Introduction to Transparencies (0:16)
- Transparencies (2:04)
- Introduction to Alternating Current (0:59)
- Alternating Current (4:20)
- Introduction to Wait (0:32)
- Wait (0:34)
New Poems
- Introduction to As Ever (0:34)
- As Ever (0:32) [Tribute to Robert Creeley:text of poem]
- Introduction to Behind the Motel (0:51)
- Behind the Motel (1:19)
- Unknown Quanity (0:51)
- Introduction to Wallpaper (0:33)
- Wallpaper (2:22)
Pennsound Podcast
Listen to more Adrienne Rich readings at PennSound.
Praise from Adrienne Rich
- Adrienne Rich comments on her afternoon with the students in the Fellows seminar just before reading her poems on Monday evening, April 18
- Rich also praises Al Filreis as host of Writers House Fellows and his teaching
Photos
