When my first undergraduate poetry professor taught “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” and “Diving into the Wreck” side by side, to demonstrate how Rich’s work was transformed by feminism, I marveled how…
View image | gettyimages.com 1. “I am to speak these words in Europe, but I have been searching for them in the United States of America.” This is how Adrienne…
Over the course of her long career, Adrienne Rich influenced innumerable?poets, critics, editors, feminists and other activists. It would be hard?to account for the breadth of it. Since my…
I am a writer, primarily of poems, but also of criticism, essays, and fiction. Over the last decade I?have taught courses in geology, ecology, outdoor living skills, and writing. I’ve…
In 1975, when I began my graduate work at a large Midwestern university, Adrienne Rich’s groundbreaking essay collections hadn’t been published yet. That year, my twenty-fourth, had been a watershed….
In the March-April 2015 issue?The Critical Flame?will commemorate the third anniversary of Adrienne Rich’s passing?with a special multi-essay feature on her poetry, criticism, feminism, and?politics. CF?is currently accepting submissions of…
“…so blow a kiss to this drowned world. The gods have spoken: yield.” —Maxine Kumin, “Going Down” In her introduction to A Story Larger Than My Own: Women Writers Look…
Kiese Laymon and Leigh Stein do not appear to share much in the way of common experience. Laymon is a black man from Mississippi; Stein is a white half-Jewish woman…