September 23, 2002

Contact: Sarah Ray



802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: Sept. 23, 2002

MIDDLEBURY,

VT - Award-winning poet Adrienne Rich will give a reading of new unpublished

and recently published works on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 4:30 p.m. at Middlebury

College. A book signing will immediately follow the reading and a variety

of Rich’s books will be available for purchase. The event will take

place in Dana Auditorium in Sunderland Language Center on College Street

(Route 125), and is free and open to the public.

Rich is the author of more

than 15 volumes of poetry, including, “Diving into the Wreck,”

“The Dream of a Common Language,” and “Midnight Salvage.”

She has also written four works of nonfiction, including “Of Woman

Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution” and “Arts of

the Possible: Essays & Conversations.” Her most recent poetry

collection, “Fox: Poems 1998-2000,” was published in the fall

of 2001 by W.W. Norton.

Rich is the recipient of

many awards, including the 1996 Tanning Award for Mastery in the Art of

Poetry, the Lannan Foundation’s 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award,

and the National Book Award. She has also received numerous fellowships,

such as an Academy of Poetry Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and

a MacArthur Fellowship.

The reading and book signing

are sponsored by the office for institutional diversity at Middlebury

College.

For more information, contact

Jessa Karki in the Middlebury

College office of institutional diversity or call ext. 802-443-5615.