Adrienne Rich and Me

[strange_selkie]

I was working on a poem when I learned that Adrienne Rich had died. The fact of this is going to stick with me.

I don't think I accepted myself as a poet until last year, though I have been writing (and winning things for) poetry since I began to write expressively in English, around age nine. So -- a long time. Oy. But in high school and college,

Comments

[nineweaving]

Her memory for a blessing.

Nine

[gwynnega]

her words were my friends.

Yes.

[sovay]

You cry when friends go; you can't help it.

*hugs*