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Adrienne Rich, in full Adrienne Cecile Rich, (born May 16, 1929, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died March 27, 2012, Santa Cruz, California), American poet, scholar, teacher, and critic whose many volumes of poetry trace a stylistic transformation from formal, well-crafted but imitative poetry to a more personal and powerful style. Rich attended Radcliffe College (B.A., 1951), and before her graduation her poetry was chosen by W.H. Auden for publication in the Yale Younger Poets series. The resulting volume, A Change of World (1951), reflected her mastery of the formal elements of poetry and her...

A respected Black airman writes about how his family encountered hate, and how it spurred him to battle racism.

Filmmaker Todd Chandler talks about his unusual, dreamlike approach in his PBS documentary Bulletproof, about the "normalization" of violence and mass shootings in America, and what he hopes audiences might take away from the film.

Critics tend to discount Rich’s later poems, fundamentally misunderstanding how they engage her radical vision of community.

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