Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich is a feminist and poet. She is very well known for:

• Considerable poetry
• Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (Norton, 1976)
• "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" (1980 essay)
• Refusing the 1997 National Medal for the Arts, in part because of the struggle over censorship and arts funding.Letter from Adrienne Rich to Jane Alexander, US National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)