![]() ![]() From 1967 to 1969, she taught at Swarthmore College and Columbia University, as well as in the SEEK Program in City College of New York, from 1968 to 1975. In 1953, Rich married Alfred Haskell Conrad, with whom she had three children during the 1950s she later wrote in her 1982 essay "Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity", that "The experience of motherhood was eventually to radicalize me." In 1966, Rich and her family moved to New York, where she became involved in the New Left and anti-war, civil rights, and feminist activism. ![]() Following her graduation, Rich spent a year in Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship. She attended Radcliffe College, focusing primarily on poetry and writing craft in her last year of college, her first poetry collection, A Change of World (1951), was chosen for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award by W.H. Her nascent interest in poetry and literature was supported first by her parents, then by her instructors at Roland Park Country School. ![]() Adrienne Rich - poet, essayist, and activist - was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1929. ![]()
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