Award-winning poet Adrienne Rich '51 returned to her Radcliffe roots yesterday, reading aloud from her latest book of poems as part of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study's inaugural lecture series.
Garden Street's First Church, where the reading was held, overflowed with a predominantly female crowd for the reading.
As Rich read from her book Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998, the renowned poet and feminist captured her audience so completely that loud expulsions of breath could be heard following each set of verses.
This latest of the Radcliffe Institute Inaugural Lectures continued the celebration of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study's founding, following the merger of Harvard and Radcliffe College in October of 1999.
Acting Dean of the Radcliffe Institute Mary Maples Dunn welcomed Rich back to her alma mater and thanked her for letting the Radcliffe Institute be "custodians of her future" by entrusting her manuscripts to the Schlesinger Library.
Praising her for writing "against power, against silence," Dunn stressed Rich's contribution to the inaugural lectures series.
"[The series is] intended to show the breadth and depth of what the Radcliffe Institute can and will do," Dunn said.
Rich was first recognized for her poetry in 1951, when she received the Yale Younger Poets Award. Rich has now published four volumes of non-fiction prose and more than 15 volumes of poetry, and has gone on to accumulate myriad other honors, including a National Book Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships and a MacArthur Prize.
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