Lannan Readings & Conversations

Adrienne Rich

with Carol Muske Dukes
Wednesday September 29 1999

Reading, September 29, 1999
Conversation, September 29, 1999

Carol Muske Dukes Adrienne Rich received the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. Born in 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland, she has written more than sixteen books of poetry, including Midnight Salvage, Dark Fields of the Republic, and An Atlas of the Difficult World. Her essay collections include What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics; Blood, Bread, and Poetry; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence; and Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. While in residence Ms. Rich worked on a group of new poems.

Adrienne Rich Bio and Cross Links


Carol Muske Dukes Carol Muske Duke's poetry books include An Octave above Thunder and Red Trousseau. She is also the author of Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self.

Carol Muske Dukes Bio and Cross Links