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Adrienne is the French feminine form of the male name Adrien. Its meaning is literally "from the city Hadria." It also means "the dark one".
Adrienne Cecile Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse."
Her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, was selected by renowned poet W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Rich went on to write the introduction to the published volume. She famously declined the National Medal of Arts, protesting the vote by House Speaker Newt Gingrich to end funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the elder of two sisters. Her father, renowned pathologist Arnold Rice Rich, was the Chairman of Pathology at The Johns Hopkins Medical School. Her mother, Helen Elizabeth (Jones) Rich, was a concert pianist and a composer. Her father was from a Jewish family, and her mother was Southern Protestant; the girls were raised as Christians. Adrienne Rich's early poetic influence stemmed from her father who encouraged her to read but also to write her own poetry. Her interest in literature was sparked within her father's library where she read the work of writers such as Ibsen,Arnold, Blake, Keats, Rossetti, and Tennyson. Her father was ambitious for Adrienne and "planned to create a prodigy." Adrienne Rich and her younger sister were home schooled by their mother until Adrienne began public education in the fourth grade. The poems Sources and After Dark document her relationship with her father, describing how she worked hard to fulfill her parents' ambitions for her—moving into a world in which she was expected to excel.
Adrienne Miller (born 1972) is an American writer. From 1997 to 2005, she was the fiction editor of Esquire.
Adrienne Miller was born in 1972 in Columbus, Ohio. She lived in a small farming community surrounded by silos and cornfields until she was nine years old. At nine, her parents moved to a suburb of Akron, Ohio.
She moved to New York City, New York in the spring of 1994, a week before her college graduation. She worked at GQ, as an editorial assistant, then as an assistant editor. In 1997, she became the literary editor of Esquire, a position she held until leaving in 2005. In 2006, that position was filled by Tom Chiarella.
Her first novel, The Coast of Akron, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the summer of 2005.
During the fall semester of 2009, she took up a teaching position at the University of Pennsylvania's College of Arts and Sciences where she taught a writing seminar on Russian author Vladimir Nabokov and Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
Leslie Adrienne Miller (born 1956) is the author of five collections of poems.
Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, Miller holds a B.A. from Stephens College, an M.A. from the University of Missouri, and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston.
Her poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, North American Review, Antioch Review, Georgia Review, The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner and New England Review.
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Hearing Adrienne Rich Reading - An Unheeded Premonition by Bob Boldt I arrived early on campus At least five hundred chairs were deployed Awaiting the army of the erudite Who had come to hear the poet Adrienne Rich read On the campus of the University of Missouri. A small woman, slightly stooped With a professorial air that Perhaps belied her sharp eye Assumed the podium. Sizing up the room She began to read. For at least an hour Maybe more She read from her life's blood The stream of words of Passion for the world Its politics and injustice And the specific articles of Her indictment of it all. And above all were those Sharp eyes of one whom The world has wounded too Often for her to give up Her loving of it now. When finished she seemed Somehow used ...
"I would love to kiss a girl. Is that shocking?" No, it's not, but it is nice. This didn't take place on camera unfortunately, but a series of photoshoots did, so that'll do.
In this excerpt from the documentary "Unknown Secrets: Art & the Rosenberg Era" Adrienne Rich is captured reading her poem, 'For Ethel Rosenberg" at Boston's Faneuil Hall. The complete documentary was produced by Green Mountain Post Films and more information is available at www.gmpfilms.com.
A beautiful Cheetah Girl and the "Beautiful Girls" singer join Jumpstart's Read for the Record national campaign to encourage hundreds of thousands of children and adults to read the same book on the same day! Popstar! was there as the two celebs unveiled this year's selected book, The Story of Ferdinand. Check out all the cool festivities that happened Sept. 5 at Dylan's Candy Bar in NYC! Be sure to check out popstaronline.com and myspace.com/popstarmagazine for more details!
On April 20, 2012 Leslie Adrienne Miller read with participants Nona Kennedy Carlson and Tami Mohamed Brown. Leslie Adrienne Miller's reading is shown here.
When her co-hosts asked why she never sings anymore, Adrienne explains why she put her music career on hold.
It’s not every day that a former governor general reads you a bedtime story. But then Adrienne Clarkson loves to delight. Get cozy as the beloved Canadian reads the Maurice Sendak classic Higglety Pigglety Pop! Watch more first-person videos from our "What it feels like to be Canadian" series: http://site.macleans.ca/canada148/index.html
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