Lannan Foundation

Adrienne Rich, Poet - Galisteo, Spring 2000

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.