Adrienne Rich

Overview

Adrienne Rich born Baltimore, MD May 16, 1929. Anti-war poet. Opposed wars in Vietnam Gulf and Iraq, atomic tests; published essays against racism, growing inequality and imprisonment.

Quotations

"Life on the planet is born of woman. . . [R]ecent enormous anti-war and anti-imperialist gatherings on every continent have been asserting, that ‘another world is possible.’" (March 2004, intro to Three Essays to Change the World; 1980 photo Wikipedia)