The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program
Adrienne Rich
April 18-19, 2005
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The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program
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Adrienne Rich reads from her poetry, April 18,
2005 - (video recording: streaming;
downloadable)
See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event. An interview and discussion with Adrienne Rich, moderated by Al Filreis, at the Kelly Writers House, April 19, 2005 - (video recording: streaming; downloadable) See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event. Click here to view photographs taken during Adrienne Rich's visit to the Writers House. And click to hear Rich praise the Writers House and the people she met as a Fellow. |
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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.
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Adrienne Rich reading, April 18, 2005 (PennSound MP3 files):
Introduction by Al Filreis (5:58)
Introduction by Alicia Oltuski (4:41)Opening Remarks
From Midnight Salvage (1999)
Introduction to Letters to a Young Poet (0:26)
1. Letters to a Young Poet (4:27)
Introduction to The Art of Translation (0:41)
2. The Art of Translation (2:36)
From Dark Fields of the Republic (1995)
Introduction to What Kind of Times Are These? (0:29)
3. What Kind of Times Are These? (1:17)
Introduction to From Pierced Darkness, New York, December (0:10)
4. From Pierced Darkness, New York, December (3:52)
From Fox
Introduction to Victory (1:04)
5. Victory (3:45)
Introduction to Rauschenberg's Bed (1:23)
6. Rauschenberg's Bed (1:44)
From The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004
Introduction to Centaur's Requiem (0:33)
7. Centaur's Requiem (0:56)
Introduction to Equinox (0:06)
8. Equinox (2:09)
Introduction to Transparencies (0:16)
9. Transparencies (2:04)
Introduction to Alternating Current (0:59)
10. Alternating Current (4:20)
Introduction to Wait (0:32)
11. Wait (0:34)
New Poems
Introduction to As Ever (0:34)
12. As Ever (0:32); [Tribute to Robert Creeley: text of poem]
Introduction to Behind the Motel (0:51)
13. Behind the Motel (1:19)
14. Unknown Quanity (0:51)
Introduction to Wallpaper (0:33)
15. Wallpaper (2:22)
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