Whitworth Endowed English Reading to Feature Poet, Activist Adrienne Rich Poet and activist Adrienne Rich is Whitworth's 2001 Endowed English Reader. Motherhood as Experience and Institution . Rich will read from her works Saturday, April 7, at 8 p.m. in Cowles Memorial Auditorium at Whitworth College. A book sale and signing in the auditorium foyer will follow the reading.
Disabled access is available for the event, which is free and open to the public.
According to her official biography, Rich's poetry transcends literary and political movements to emerge as a voice that relentlessly insists upon truth-telling and the ultimate value of human dignity. Honors accorded Rich include the 1996 Tanning Award for Mastery in the Art of Poetry, an Academy of Poetry Fellowship, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. She is also the recipient of the Common Wealth Award in Literature, the National Book Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships and a MacArthur Fellowship. The English Readings Endowment was established to bring nationally recognized writers to the Whitworth College campus and the greater Spokane area. Visiting writers offer classroom visits, workshops, meetings with students and faculty, and literary readings during their time on campus and in the community.