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Adrienne Cecile Rich (/ ˈ æ d r i ə n / AD-ree-ən; 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", [1] [2] and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". [3]
In "The Genesis of Yom Kippur 1984", the poem's 1987 companion essay, Rich outlined the key events during the 1980s that served as the impetus for the poem. The "young scholar shot at the university gates on a summer evening walk" referenced in the poem is Edmund Perry , a 17 year old Black teenager from Harlem who was shot to death in 1985 by ...
Lord Wickhammersley — Jack Watling (1) Lady Wickhammersley — Richenda Carey (1) Freddie Widgeon — Charles Millham (1); John Duval (2) Maud Wilberforce — Paula Jacobs (1) Dame Daphne Winkworth — Rosalind Knight (3) Gertrude Winkworth — Chloë Annett (3) Ginger Winship — Jullian Gartside (4) Uncle George Wooster, Lord Yaxley ...
Nedra Volz (née Gordonier; June 18, 1908 – January 20, 2003) was an American actress.On television, she portrayed Aunt Iola on All in the Family, Adelaide Brubaker on Diff'rent Strokes, Emma Tisdale on The Dukes of Hazzard, and Winona Beck on Filthy Rich.
The contest is regarded by some [13] to have been at its height from 1947 to 1959, when W. H. Auden was its judge. His then-young poets included Adrienne Rich , James Wright , W. S. Merwin , John Ashbery , and John Hollander .
Detroit Tigers top prospect Max Clark got into a fender-bender with John Dykes, a 71-year-old baseball fan, on his way to Starbucks.
Betsy Palmer (born Patricia Betsy Hrunek; November 1, 1926 – May 29, 2015) was an American actress known for her many film and Broadway roles, television guest-starring appearances, as a panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret, and later for playing the antagonist and mother of Jason Voorhees, Pamela Voorhees, in the first Friday the 13th film (1980).
In L.A.’s Hancock Park neighborhood, designer Ashley Lavonne Walker brings warmth and character to a historic 1904 home designed by Samuel Tilden Norton.