



of poetry (1960s), reflecting the social and political turmoil engendered by both the civil-rights movement and the war in Vietnam moved to NY (1966) while teaching part-time at several colleges and universities and raising sons alone, continued to write poetry, receiving National Book Award (1974) for Diving into the Wreck came out as a lesbian in Twenty-One Love Poems (1976) published 1st prose work Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1976) entered a long-term relationship with Jamaican-born writer and editor Michelle Cliff (1976) moved to Santa Cruz, California, with Cliff (1984), where both women continue to write about, and in support of, the outsiders and the oppressed has long sought, in her writings and in her life, alternatives to patriarchal capitalism, which system she believes is not just anti-woman, but anti-human at its core, and destructive of the environment. of poetry, The Diamond Cutters (1955), followed by Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963) began to change both style and content of work, revealing her conversion to an increasingly radical feminism published 2 subsequent vols. of verse, A Change of World, in Yale Younger Poets Series (1951) published 2nd vol. One of modern-day America's most distinguished and influential poets and feminist theorists, published 1st vol. Alfred Haskell Conrad (economist at Harvard), 1953 (committed suicide 1970) lived with Michelle Cliff (1976–) children: David (b. Arnold Rice Rich (professor of pathology) and Helen Jones Rich (composer and pianist) graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, 1951 m. Born Adrienne Cecile Rich in Baltimore, Maryland, dau.
