Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose Lesson Plan

Adrienne Rich was born in Maryland in 1929. Her father was Jewish, while her mother was Protestant. She attended Radcliffe College, and while a student there in 1951, W.H. Auden selected her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, for the Yale Series of Young Poets prize. After graduation, Rich traveled in Europe and married an economist, Alfred H. Conrad. With Conrad, Rich settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts and became the mother to three children before turning thirty. She continued to write poetry, twice winning the Guggenheim Fellowship. Her third volume of poetry, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963), is considered a turning-point in her career, as she moved away from poetry...