Rewriting the World: Personal, Poetic, Political
Speaker:
Adrienne Rich
23 Sep 2008
10:00 AM
Campanile Room, Memorial Union
This informal meeting is an opportunity for questions and discussion with poet and feminist icon Adrienne Rich. Rich's poetry and prose are taught in literature, creative writing, and gender and gay studies courses across the country and abroad. In 1951 she received the Yale Younger Poets Award. She is the author of more than sixteen volumes of poetry.
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This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.